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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Radley Balko · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended,... |
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A Renegade History of the United States
Thaddeus Russell · Free Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize... |
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister - soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill... |
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz · Basic Civitas Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously,... |
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Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe
Martin J Dougherty · Amber Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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"They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses... They embalm the heads... [and]... display them with pride to strangers." - Diodorus Siculus. Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated... |
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The Radium Girls
Kate Moore · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 465
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Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for. 'The first thing we asked was, "Does this stuff hurt you?" And they said, "No." The company said that it wasn't dangerous, that we didn't need to be afraid.'... |
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Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
Ronald Utt · Regnery History; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America’s... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 285
Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 86
Format: Print book
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Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems.Instant New York Times Bestseller"One of the year's most entrancing books about science." - The Wall Street Journal"Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics." - The New York... |
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The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
Trae Crowder · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The Liberal Rednecks - a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire - celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red.Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated... |
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The Red River Campaign and Its Toll : 69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864
Henry O Robertson · McFarland & Company
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book takes a fresh look at the fierce battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, the Union army's escape from Monett's Ferry and the burning of Alexandria, and explains the causes and consequences of the war in Central Louisiana"--
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