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Wood for the trees : one man's long view of nature
Richard Fortey · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From the author of "Earth: An Intimate History, "an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres... |
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
Malcolm Lambert · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin:... |
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Allyson Hobbs · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history... |
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Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
Jonathan Haslam · Farrar
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold... |
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Jessica Hagy · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover |
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Its the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at lifes challenges and opportunities. A Bronze AgeInformation... |
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Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon
Randy Johnson · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily recognized landmark along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a popular tourist destination, a site... |
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1956: The World in Revolt
Simon Hall · Pegasus Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover |
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Vibrantly and perceptively told, this is the story of one remarkable year -- a vivid history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets... |
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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Brian Fagan · Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and technologically inventive people that had yet lived on earth. The prolonged encounter between the Cro-Magnons and the archaic Neanderthals... |
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