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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Therese Oneill · Little
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't... |
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
ELIZABETH NORTON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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The Age of Genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
A C Grayling · Bloomsbury
Pages: 351
Format: eBook
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"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics... |
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Blood Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1462-1485
Hugh Bicheno · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The concluding volume to this rousing two-part history of the Wars of the Roses, England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated by a master historian. England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry VI languishes... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
MARK FELTON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious... |
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Secret Columbus: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Anietra Hamper · Reedy Press
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
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Where in Columbus can you find a grave of specimens from an insane asylum? Stroll down Memory Lane? See the world's largest gavel? Sniff the rarest smelly flower in the world? Soak up relics from the old National Roads? Soak up relics from the old National Road? The progressive pulse of Columbus... |
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