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The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
Robert L Kelly · University of California Press
Pages: 168
Format: Print book
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"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies... |
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Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
Nicholas Irving · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have... |
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Blood and earth : modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world
Kevin Bales · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking - and an inspiring,... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 819
Format: Print book
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The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published When The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 was published in August of 2014, it jumped immediately onto the New York Times bestseller list and captivated media attention for its many... |
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro · Knopf
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage... |
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Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy
Darryl Pinckney · New York Review Books
Format: Hardcover
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Blackballed is Darryl Pinckneyrsquos meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics In this combination of memoir historical narrative and contemporary political and social analysis he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction... |
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Shackleton's Heroes: The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive
Wilson Mcorist · W W Norton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The Unbelievable Story of Six Men Who Trekked Across the Great Ice Barrier in Support of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic ExpeditionOne hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on the legendary 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, defying the odds and accomplishing one of history's... |
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Leigh Gallagher · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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“The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.” For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle... |
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Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Pete Daniel · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination... |
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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER · Betty Crocker
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cook​Betty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes... |
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
Jesse Walker · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Jesse Walkers The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.The fear of intrigue and subversion doesnt exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part of our national... |
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Eddie S Jr Glaude · Crown
Pages: 274
Format: Book
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A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling... |
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Michael B Oren · Random House
Pages: 412
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States - a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East - provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between... |
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