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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks... |
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Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Michael S. Roth · Yale University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Contentious debates over the benefitsor drawbacksof a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitismoften calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast,... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Pages: 513
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most... |
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Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
Eve LaPlante · Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa May Alcott was one of the most successful and bestselling authors of her day, earning more than any of her male contemporaries. Her classic Little Women has been a mainstay of American literature since its release nearly 150 years ago, as Jo March and her calm, beloved “Marmee”... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth... |
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Cynthia Barnett · Crown Publishers
Pages: 355
Format: Print book
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Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.
It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.
Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four... |
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Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa
Tim Brady · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents... |
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The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
Richard W Bulliet · Columbia University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently... |
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper
LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO · Greenhill Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.
In June 1941,... |
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On the Run in Siberia
Rane Willerslev · Univ Of Minnesota Press; Rei Tra edition
Format: Paperback
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If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest... |
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Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
Stephen L. Moore · NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific....But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron... |
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