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John Simmons : the measure of a man
Denise Doherty Pappas · No Small Matters Press
Pages: 193
Format: Print book
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While cultural critics today question the economic value of a college education, nearly 150 years ago a radical tailor in Boston never doubted it. Rather, this Rhode Island native, son of a Revolutionary War Hero, and a man who did not graduate from high school, carefully accumulated a fortune... |
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
Jack Lynch · Bloomsbury
Pages: 453
Format: Print book
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"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line... |
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover
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Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government... |
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From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town
Ingrid D Rowland · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman... |
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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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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden · Penguin Press, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Barnes Carr · Foreedge
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note:... |
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When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys
Thomas Maier · Crown
Format: Kindle Edition
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The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their "special relationship" meant for Great Britain and the United States When Lions Roar begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country... |
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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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Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
John Bemelmans Marciano · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world... |
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