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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
JAMES M SCOTT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfill his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard... |
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
Kirsten Fermaglich · NYU Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed... |
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Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space
Gary Kitmacher · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versaSpace stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations:... |
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The White Darkness
DAVID GRANN · Doubleday
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed... |
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The Book of Revelation: A Biography
Timothy Beal · Princeton University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The life and times of the New Testament's most mystifying and incendiary bookFew biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses... |
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Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs
NEIL MACGREGOR · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence... |
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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The Penguin Book of Hell
Scott G. Bruce · Penguin Classics
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll... |
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