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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential... |
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The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
DAVID L MEARNS · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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This gripping memoir by the world's foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science, and Clive Cussler-style adventure. David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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A Night to Remember
Walter Lord · Holt Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanics fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers... |
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Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America
Michael Johnson · Firefly Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Praise for the first edition A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing ... Every public and school library ... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come. -- Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan... |
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
Susanna Moore · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds... |
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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"[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice." - The Washington Post More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety.After... |
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
DIANA PRESTON · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 531
Format: Hardcover
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s, a young... |
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La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World
Dianne Hales · Crown Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author knighted by the President of Italy for her writing, a jubilant exploration of how Italy transformed the Western world's most vibrant passions -- from literature to art, music to movies. No country has matched Italy's impact on culture.... |
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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
Max Adams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,... |
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The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite
Rowan Callick · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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A century after its underground beginnings, the Chinese Communist Party today exerts far-reaching control over every aspect of private life. Beyond it's legendary control of the internet within China's borders, even seemingly non-political domains are subject to its authority: routine... |
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God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador
Kathryn T. Long · Oxford University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish... |
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