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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
INGRID ROWLAND · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the visual world.A narrative of intrigue and gossip, deceit and genius, and colorful artistic rivalry, The Collector of Lives presents a lively and inviting introduction to a seminal... |
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The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them
Chris DeRose · Lyons Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s... |
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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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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Lauren Elkin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month (March 2017) The New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceFinancial Times, New Statesman and The Guardian Best Books of 2016The flneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon.... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait · Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World
Prof. James E. Cronin · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a “special relationship” between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a new history of recent global... |
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The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
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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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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN · Penguin Press
Pages: 1154
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant... |
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The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
Barbara Boxer · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life."---Senator Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning... |
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann Mcelhinney · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran described... |
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer · Farrar
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which... |
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