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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm · Little Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker · W W Norton Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press Pages: 303 Format: Hardcover |
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover |
A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster Pages: 385 Format: Hardcover |
Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Adam Alter · Penguin Books Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social, medical, and psychological research... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer · Bantam Pages: 688 Format: Print book |
A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country... |
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury Pages: 224 Format: Print book |
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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