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The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence
S Max Edelson · Harvard University Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories... |
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone... |
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Robert L Gandt · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate... |
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Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
James T Kloppenberg · Oxford University Press
Pages: 912
Format: Print book
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In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day.... |
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Africa
Toyin Falola · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 1366
Format: Print book
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Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa... |
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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
RICHARD BRANSON · Portfolio
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the world's ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.Richard Branson's Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present
June Teufel Dreyer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 454
Format: Print book
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Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind,... |
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Slaves to Freedom
Kathy Tilghman · Balboa Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book
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Kathy Tilghman recounts the turbulent times of antebellum America through a friendship between two women: a black slave and an Irish immigrant. Both travel the Underground Railroad but neither knows the sacrifices that will be asked of them to achieve the freedom they desperately want.... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C Scott · Yale University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors... |
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Ending 60 Years of Solitude: A Portrait of a Peace Deal
Will Spurr · CreateSpace
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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"Colombian history repeats itself; first as tragedy, then as FARC". The 1948 assassination of the charismatic left-liberal politician, Jorge Gaitán, plunged Colombia into a decade of brutal civil turmoil. This conflict then engendered the rise of anti-state guerrilla movements,... |
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A History of Britain in Thirty-six Postage Stamps
Chris West · Picador; Advance Reader's Copy edition
Format: Book
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Stamps tell a story—and Chris West’s book is the unique, fascinating tale of Great Britain told through its stamps.Hailed by The Times of London as “a splendid reminder of the philatelic glories of the past,” A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps tells the rich,... |
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