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Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
David Barrie · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer,... |
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The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation
Arlin Crotts · Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Explore Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon, in this fascinating and timely book and discover what we should expect from this seemingly familiar but strange, new frontier. What startling discoveries are being uncovered on the Moon? What will these tell us about our place in the Universe?... |
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The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
Ben Yagoda · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era. Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it's a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came... |
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains... |
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Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
Michael Smith · Oneworld Publications; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Ernest Shackleton is one of historys great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. A charismatic personality, his incredible adventures on four expeditions to the Antarctic have... |
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The Romani Gypsies
Yaron Matras · Belknap Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what they know, or think they know, about this much-misunderstood people. The Romani Gypsies challenges stereotypes that have long been... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution that... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Art: A Visual History
Robert Cumming · DK
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Art: A Visual History is the complete visual guide to Western art, now updated and repackaged in a themed slipcase.How to tell Impressionism from Expressionism, a Degas from a Monet, early Medieval art from early Christian? Art: A Visual History explains it all - painting, sculpture,... |
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Bond by Design: The Art of the James Bond Films
DK · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Featuring the work of legendary Bond film designers such as Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, and Syd Cain, Bond by Design brings the James Bond art department's story right up to date with behind-the-scenes artwork from the latest film, SPECTRE. With two exclusive prints and authoritative text... |
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The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
Chris Skidmore · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover
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On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a twenty-eight year old Welshman who had just... |
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Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Thomas W Cutrer · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, Ship's Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller heard the alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several torpedoes dropped from... |
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Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
Mimi Swartz · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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It wasn't supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn't the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult... |
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
MARY BEARD · Liveright
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed... |
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