|
1789: George Washington and the Founders Create America
Thomas B. Allen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
|
|
"[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It's a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review1789: George Washington and the Founders... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Nick Lloyd - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union.Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Computer Architecture
Charles Fox - No Starch Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future.. Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future
Wayne McCrory - Harbour Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Chilcotin's wild horses are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen by government policy as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattle and, as a result, they have been subject to culls and are not officially protected.In... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
Theodore H. Schwartz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Inside the Roman Legions: The Soldier's Experience 264–107 BCE
Kathryn Milne - Pen and Sword Military
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Takes the career of Spurius Ligustinus, detailed by the Roman historian Livy, as a focus, giving a very human and empathetic approachability to the author's lucid and thorough analysis.. Inside the Roman Legions aims to tell the story of the Roman soldier through a holistic, empathetic... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
Guy de la Bédoyère - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata.. Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance
Victoria Blanco - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take.. The Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language and cultural... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
