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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand · Oxford University Press
Pages: 331
Format: Print book |
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
Robert Coram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia used dogged determination to achieve his dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia man,... |
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Alistair Horne · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait... |
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Martin J. S. Rudwick · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how was it discovered? How was the evidence... |
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