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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Diana B Henriques · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 437
Format: Paperback
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Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?This question has long fascinated people, about the New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion. And in The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of The New York... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
DK. · DK
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions,... |
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Vogue Essentials: Little Black Dress
Chloe Fox · Conran
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Ninety years after Vogue dubbed Coco Chanel's simple short black 'Ford' dress 'the frock that all the world will wear', the perfect Little Black Dress continues to be every woman's most sought after fashion essential. At its classic best, the LBD doesn't just... |
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Allyson Hobbs · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history... |
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Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery
Miranda J Aldhouse-Green · Thames & Hudson, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 223
Format: Print book
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The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist's... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oréal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause célèbre that... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionOne of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head OnNPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great ReadsSan Francisco Chronicle's Best... |
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For the past century and more, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. Thanks to the Big Data revolution, soon, it won't be. As Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge show, data is replacing money as the driver of market... |
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