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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Print book |
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The acclaimed, award-winning historian - "America's new past master" (Chicago Tribune) - examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect... |
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible
Chanan Tigay · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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A gripping account of one man's quest to find the oldest Bible in the world and solve the riddle of the brilliant, doomed antiquities dealer accused of forging it. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira--archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem's... |
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Devil's diary.
Robert Wittman · Harpercollins
Format: Print book : English |
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This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's "chief philosopher" and architect of Nazi ideology - interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors:... |
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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro · Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Somini Sengupta · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India -- the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different... |
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · Crown Publishers
Pages: 418
Format: Print book |
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From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine AwardÂÂ-finalist Rebecca Traister, "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" (Anne Lamott) , traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically... |
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Henry Petroski · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C , respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally... |
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Angels With Dirty Faces Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption.
Imarisha, Walidah
Format: Print book : English |
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"There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards,... |
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