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The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory · Amistad
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King,... |
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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf · New York Univ. Press
Pages: 403
Format: Hardcover
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Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves... |
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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
MARY HOLLINGSWORTH · Pegasus Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political... |
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to e-book
Roderick Cave · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A study of books through history is a study of human history. In The History of the Book in 100 Books, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -- literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion,... |
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
Roben Farzad · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday - and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers... |
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The Family Tree Historical Atlas of American Cities
Allison Dolan · Family Tree Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Journey to the big city! Explore your ancestors' hometowns! This book guides you through American history by looking at the United States' sixteen most populous and historically influential cities, such as New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Each section features... |
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Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Luke Barr · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier César Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel... |
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From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town
Ingrid D Rowland · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck · Ecco Press
Pages: 639
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial
Stuart S Blume · Reaktion Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important tools in the public health arsenal, vaccines are to thank for the global eradication of smallpox, and for allowing us to defeat the dire threat of infectious disease for more than one hundred years. Vaccine development is where scientists turn when faced with the frightening... |
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The Teds
Chris Steele-Perkins · Dewi Lewis Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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1956, sixty years ago-a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. It was the year in which Teds became central to youth culture in the UK. Originally published in 1979 The Teds combines image and text to tell a fascinating... |
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The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd · Bloomsbury
Pages: 415
Format: Print book
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In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before... |
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Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
Nicholas Irving · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have... |
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Theodore Roosevelt in the Field
Michael R. Canfield · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer - he was also a naturalist and campaigner... |
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