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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black... |
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England... |
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The Trip: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure
Deborah Davis · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey - and the numerous artists and celebrities he encountered - profoundly influenced his life and art.In 1963, up-and-coming artist Andy... |
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The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
Chris Skidmore · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover
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On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a twenty-eight year old Welshman who had just... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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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, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future:... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
DOUG STANTON · Scribner
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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"A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review) - from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere January 19, 2018 - the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill · Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders... |
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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Jeffrey E. Garten · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something... |
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Last crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · Crown Publishers
Pages: 430
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Andrew Bacevich · Metropolitan Books; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the gulf between America’s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington RulesThe United States has been “at war” in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become... |
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Animals in the First World War
Neil Storey · Shire
Format: Book
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Animals played an important part in helping the Allies win the First World War, well beyond cavalry horses that charged fields and hauled heavy guns, and included a variety of animals in different but essential service. Pigeons were trained to carry messages, dogs sniffed out wounded soldiers... |
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