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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria · Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of educated readers... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionOne of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head OnNPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great ReadsSan Francisco Chronicle's Best... |
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Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
Jay D Aronson · Harvard University Press
Pages: 318
Format: Print book
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After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human... |
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Ethan J Kytle · The New Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina - the heart of Dixie A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville,... |
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation... |
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Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War
Joseph Wheelan · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax.As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama,... |
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"A Woman Fearing Nothing"
Brenda Ely Albus · The Author]
Pages: 137
Format: Print book
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"A Woman Fearing Nothing" takes the stories about Sarah Bradlee Fulton that have been faithfully passed down by her descendants and weaves them into the history of the time. Sarah was a heroine of the Revolutionary War. In the years after the war both President George Washington... |
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The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940
Frederick Brown · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 345
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history" - Henry Kissinger), Zola ("Magnificent" - The New Yorker), and Flaubert ("Impeccable" - James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review) - a brilliant... |
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Douglas Perry · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soulEliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad's daring... |
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died... |
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Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army
John P Langellier · Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Pages: 221
Format: Print book
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From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi... |
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