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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.In this... |
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Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 389
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more... |
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The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose
Jack Shuler · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover |
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The story of a rope a symbol and rough justice in AmericaThe hangmans knot is a simple thing to tie just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol one that is all too deeply connected to Americas pastand presentThe last... |
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Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Rory MacLean · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love.... |
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Profits of Doom: Milking the Apocalyptic Cash Cow for All It's Worth
Robert Stricklin · Outskirts Press |
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The clock is ticking. The days are numbered. The signs are everywhere. Are we really on the eve of destruction? Nahhhh... As the end of the Mayan calendar looms and global crises fill the news, a whole new wave of books, films, TV shows and evangelical ventures are proclaiming the imminent... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen · St Martins Pr
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover |
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland
Cynthia Clampitt · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage,... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Format: Hardcover |
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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