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The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Gay Talese · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United... |
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Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics
G A Bremner · Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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'History is past politics, politics is present history.' Thus observed Edward August Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He was an idiosyncratic and imaginative thinker who saw past and present as interwoven and had a way of collapsing barriers of time - a gift... |
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Samuel Etinde Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences - and similarities - are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates... |
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
Mark Danner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent war footing."The... |
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Murder and the Making of English CSI
Ian A Burney · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 235
Format: Print book
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Crime scene investigation -- or CSI -- has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. But where... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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2016 Democratic Platform
Democratic National Committee · Democratic Platform Committee
Pages: 51
Format: Print book
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The Democratic Party wants every Democrat to have a voice in our Platform process. This year's platform process was the most representative and inclusive in history. We held a series of events across the country and thousands of people submitted video and written testimony online. This... |
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Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
George Foy · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful prose,... |
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The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark
Neil J Sullivan · Potomac Books
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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During World War II, the lives of millions of Americans lay precariously in the hands of a few brilliant scientists who raced to develop the first weapon of mass destruction. Elected officials gave the scientists free rein in the Manhattan Project without understanding the complexities... |
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Key West
Frances Watson Clark · Arcadia Pub
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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Key West has a colorful history. It was the beachhead that protected the United States from the Soviet Union and Cuba in the 1960s, its literary and music scenes attracted and developed writers, artists, and musicians in the 1970s, and it seceded from the Union and created a new nation,... |
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