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The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide
Azeem Ibrahim · Hurst & Company
Pages: 235
Format: Print book
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The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma) , a majority Buddhist country. According to the United Nations, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They suffer routine discrimination at the hands... |
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Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back
Nathan Bomey · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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What happens when an iconic American city goes broke?At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history -- the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city... |
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All Monsters Must Die: An Excursion to North Korea
Magnus BaÃŒ?rtaÃŒ?s · Anansi International
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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A finalist for the prestigious August Prize, All Monsters Must Die is the story of North Korea, past and present, offering a rare and fascinating window into the most isolated country in the world. In 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through March... |
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Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Harold H Brown · University Alabama Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who,... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J Bacevich · Random House
Pages: 453
Format: Print book
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Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving... |
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Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy
David P. Barash · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation in the Western world. And yet, throughout history,... |
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Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace
Fabian Drixler · The Yale Peabody Museum
Format: Print book
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Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japans early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizing glimpses of medieval Japan and the technology... |
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An Uncommon History of Common Things
Bethanne Patrick · National Geographic
Format: Book
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Sometime about 30,000 years ago, somebody stuck a sharp rock into a split stick—and presto! The axe was born. Our inquisitive species just loves tinkering, testing, and pushing the limits, and this delightfully different book is a freewheeling reference to hundreds of customs, notions,... |
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The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City: The Battle for Konigsberg, 1945
Isabel Denny · W W Norton
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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The harrowing, tragic story of a city and a people ravaged by one of the most brutal battles of World War II.In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany's most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital,... |
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Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
Marcia A Zug · New York University Press
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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There have always been mail-order brides in America but we haven t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called Tobacco Wives of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore... |
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