|
Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class
Scott Timberg · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
|
|
In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
J. Todd Moye · Oxford University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Governing from the Skies: A Global History of Aerial Bombing
Thomas Hippler · Verso
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
|
|
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombingEver since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power. A power initially deployed on populations... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps
Burgess Owens · Post Hill Pr
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
|
|
The black middle class - saviors of the American way.Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps documents the role of the 21 white, self-avowed socialist, atheist and Marxist founders of the NAACP and their impact on the Black community's present status at the top of our nations... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
Dan Jones · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
|
|
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history - the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History
Joseph Yacoub · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
|
|
The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia - now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
Sean Wilentz · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
|
|
One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America's enduring struggle against economic inequality."There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history." So begins The Politicians... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
Stephen Anthony Smith · Oxford University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
|
|
The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
History and uncertain future of handwriting
Anne Trubek · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
|
|
In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
