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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds
Rachelle Bergstein · Harper
Pages: 375
Format: Print book |
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From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's obsession with the world's most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine."A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize... |
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks... |
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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Thomas Rid · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432 |
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A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE "FINANCIAL TIMES" BOOK OF THE YEAR A highly original narrative history by "The Economist s" Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in "Age of Ambition" The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet... |
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Rob Schmitz · Crown Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of China's most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today. Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance,... |
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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
Jennifer A Reich · New York University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen U.S. states and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames on the nation's falling vaccination rates. Still, many parents continue to claim that the risks that vaccines... |
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Founding Feuds: The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation
Paul Aron · Sourcebooks
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback |
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The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence. From the violent brawl between... |
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Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment
Wenonah Hauter · New Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book |
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Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed to the forefront of U.S. energy production. With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into... |
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Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World
Maurice Walsh · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 525
Format: Print book |
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"Sets Ireland's post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect." -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding... |
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