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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
Jay Ingram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little... |
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Light in the Queen's Garden: Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai'i's Daughters, 1862–1914
Sandra Bonura · University of Hawaii Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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At the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiaha'o Seminary, a boarding school for girls, she couldn't have imagined it would become a lifelong career of service to Hawaiian women, or that she would become closely involved in the political... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders,... |
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Edward Brooke-Hitching · Chronicle Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,... |
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Lawrence P Jackson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally.In his Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) , Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social... |
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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
Robert Ferguson · The Overlook Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC) .Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Martin J. S. Rudwick · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how was it discovered? How was the evidence... |
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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 275
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South.... |
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The wars of Reconstruction : the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era
Douglas R Egerton · Bloomsbury
Pages: 438
Format: Print book
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By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American... |
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Famous First Facts
Steven Anzovin · H.W. Wilson; 7 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developments and discoveries, and newly organized... |
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