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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant... |
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Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic
Michael D. White · New York University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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No policing tactic has been more controversial than stop and frisk, whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis... |
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
Heather Ann Thompson · Pantheon
Pages: 752
Format: Print book |
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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice - including information never released to the public - published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On... |
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Bevin Alexander · Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover |
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Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861-65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural... |
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Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917
Harrison Evans Salisbury · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen?... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · Harpercollins
Pages: 443
Format: Print book |
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New York Times BestsellerFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One... |
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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Bob Brier · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 - one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom · Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York.... |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's... |
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Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
Thomas P. Slaughter · Hill & Wang
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover |
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An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it."... |
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The Golden Thread: A History of Writing
Ewan Clayton · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself.Calligraphy... |
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