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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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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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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Devery S. Anderson · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless... |
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
William Geroux · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Death Camps
Karen Bartlett · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A sobering story of an industrial family's cold efficiency behind the design of the ovens at AuschwitzArchitects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust... |
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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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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 354
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared... |
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Hitler's Collaborators: Choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe
Philip Morgan · Oxford University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years after the war, when... |
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No Hope! The Story of the Great Red River Raft
Mitchel Whitington · 23 House Publishing
Pages: 115
Format: Perfect Paperback
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It was formidable and impenetrable... a behemoth of logs blocking the Red River as far as the eye could see, stretching for over one hundred miles. The logjam dubbed the Red River Raft; choked the river and denied passage there. It was so immense that when explorer Thomas Freeman first... |
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National Geographic Almanac 2019: Hot New Science, Fearless Explorers, Epic Adventures. Incredible Photographs
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way.An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key information on science, nature, history, and geography,... |
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Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss
CARMEN GENTILE · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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I turn to see a rocket-propelled grenade screaming toward me. The ordinance strikes me in the side of the head, instantly blinding me in one eye and crushing the right side of my face. On September 9, 2010, while embedded with an Army unit and talking with locals in a small village in eastern... |
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