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Great City Maps
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A beautifully illustrated history of the world's most celebrated historical city maps, from the hubs of ancient civilization to sprawling modern mega-cities, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Great City Maps explores and explains 30 of the world's greatest... |
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Akhil Reed Amar · Basic Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevanceAmerica's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires "to endure... |
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The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific: 1945
Will Iredale · Pegasus
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary story of courage, valor, and dogged determination, the vivid account of how a few brave young pilots ensured lasting peace during World War II. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were... |
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Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s
Salem Press · Salem Press
Pages: 500
Format: Print book
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This important resource provides students and researchers new insights into the 1960s in the U.S., through an in-depth analysis of forty important primary source documents and their lasting effect on American history. An historical timeline and bibliography of supplemental readings will... |
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They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of #blacklivesmatter
Wesley Lowery · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first book to go behind the barricades of #blacklivesmatter to tell the story of the young men and women who are calling for a new America. In a closely reported book that draws on his own experience as a young biracial journalist, "Washington Post "reporter Wesley Lowery... |
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar · Public Affairs
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented... |
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha · Yale University Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical... |
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Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
Robert Coram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia used dogged determination to achieve his dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia man,... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J Bacevich · Random House
Pages: 453
Format: Print book
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Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving... |
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Indiana Beach:: A Fun-filled History
W C Madden · The History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book
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From its humble beginnings as a place to swim and row a boat, Ideal Beach eventually became Indiana Beach, a small amusement park where families could have good old-fashioned fun. Founded by Earl Spackman in 1926, its popularity was bolstered by the addition of a dance hall that drew the top bands... |
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