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ISIS: A History
Fawaz A Gerges · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism... |
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Oh Florida! : how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country
Craig Pittman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these - and, more importantly, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing... |
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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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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,... |
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Aram Goudsouzian · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps.... |
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they've never been seen before.... |
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Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang
Max Décharné · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang -- from highwaymen to hip-hop -- is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture,... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck · Ecco Press
Pages: 639
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone, " "The New Yorker, " "Vanity Fair, " and other premier magazines, "Alligator Candy "is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.... |
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Operation Sea Lion
Leo McKinstry · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive -- a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land... |
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U.S. History For Dummies
Steve Wiegand · For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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Ace your next history test with this concise, easy-to-read guideU.S. History for Dummies, 3rd Edition fills the need to improve high school proficiency in history by providing a complete history of the United States, presented in an accessible, reader-friendly format designed to engage... |
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett · Bloomsbury
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
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