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The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
Scott Woolley · Ecco Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.This is the origin story of the airwaves - the foundational technology of the communications... |
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The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
Carol Belanger Grafton · Harper
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the... |
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The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of Firearms
Iain Overton · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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In this compelling and revelatory book, an investigative journalist explores the lifecycle of the gun - following those who make firearms, sell them, use them, and die by them - with a special emphasis on the United States, to make sense of our complex relationship with these weapons.We... |
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Howard B Means · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,... |
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J Bacevich · Random House
Pages: 453
Format: Print book |
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Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving... |
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Laura Tillman · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas.On March... |
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage. Shortly after... |
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The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions
Andrew Hacker · The New Press
Pages: 239
Format: Print book |
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Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in our schools instantly became one of the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict a full menu of mathematics - algebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculus - on all young... |
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