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When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope
Kevin Cowherd · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting Baltimore has seen since the assassination... |
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Michael Dobbs · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany, and an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930's and 40's. This book complements the exhibition The Americans and the Holocaust... |
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Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
Ben S. Bernanke · Penguin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the lessons... |
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The Last Prussian: A Biography of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
Charles Messenger · Pen and Sword Military
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during 1914-1918 he rose steadily through the ranks before retiring in 1938. Recalled to plan the attack on Poland, he played... |
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Battleships of the III Reich. Volume 2
Witold Koszela · MMPBooks
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German battleships that were in Kriegsmarine service. The author describes their history in the order in which they entered the service devoting much attention to their construction and precisely... |
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The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom
Christopher B. Maselli · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, as antiquated as leeching, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons... |
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Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion
Fern Riddell · Quercus
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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WOMEN WERE NEVER GIVEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE . . . THEY TOOK IT BY FORCE, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.BUT WHY HAS THE RADICAL LEGACY OF THE SUFFRAGETTES BEEN ERASED FROM HISTORY? In Death in Ten Minutes, historian Fern Riddell uncovers the story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion, told through... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Croatia
DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Croatia with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - walk the marble streets of Dubrovnik, dip your... |
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Brazil: A Biography
Lilia M. Schwarcz · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil... |
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América: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Robert Goodwin · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage... |
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