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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times) .David Kushner grew up in the suburbs of Florida in the early... |
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Dressing the Decades: Twentieth-Century Vintage Style
Emmanuelle Dirix · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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An authoritative and visually stunning look at the fashion of the 20th century, Dressing the Decades examines in depth the origins of the most important luxury garments. Each sumptuously illustrated chapter features a detailed overview of a particular decade, including the historical events,... |
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Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?
Kyung An · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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A smart and playful introduction to the often-mystifying world of contemporary art What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? From museums and the art market to biennales and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?... |
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
Lawrence Millman · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful... |
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 448
Format: eBook
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"This is a story about the war against disease - a war without end - and the development of enormously important vaccines, but in telling that story, in showing how science works, Meredith Wadman reveals much more. I loved this book." - John M. Barry, New York Times bestselling... |
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Christopher Knowlton · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention... |
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister - soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: eBook
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT"†OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT"‡ THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"§January... |
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War Diaries, 1939–1945
Astrid Lindgren · Yale University Press
Pages: 235
Format: Print book
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These personal diaries kept by Astrid Lindgren, author of the world famous Pippi Longstocking books, chronicle the horrors of World War II. Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family... |
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Diana: Her True Story--in Her Own Words
ANDREW MORTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death.When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy.... |
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
Judith Matloff · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heightsMountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly... |
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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
Randall S Peffer · Berkley Calibre
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk... |
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C Waterhouse · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.The Land of Enterprise... |
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