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The Story of Innovation: How Yesterday's Discoveries Lead to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs
James Trefil · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Written for science geeks and everyone curious about the world around us, this comprehensive sweep through modern science and technology is a solid family reference, covering the most important innovations and inventions in engineering, physics, medicine, chemistry, biology, and more.From... |
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The Real Lives of Roman Britain
Guy de la Bedoyere · Yale University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological... |
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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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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War
Joseph Wheelan · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax.As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama,... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 744
Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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James Baldwin: The FBI File
William J Maxwell · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
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Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black... |
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DDR Posters: The Art of East German Propaganda
David Heather · Prestel; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover
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Made available to the public for the first time, these posters from the archives of the German Historical Museum reveal a regime determined to influence and control the citizens of East Germany. In the age of the internet, poster art is fading into history, but its importance as historical... |
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Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy
Ronald H Fritze · Reaktion Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The land of pyramids and sphinxes, pharaohs and goddesses, Egypt has been a source of awe and fascination from the time of the ancient Greeks to the twenty-first century. In Egyptomania, Ronald H. Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the past, a place inhabited... |
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Don't Call Them Trailer Trash: The Illustrated Mobile Home Story
John Brunkowski · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Although the phrase "trailer trash" is catchy and kitschy in describing mobile home living, this revealing peek into a stereotype that has dogged the mobile home since its earliest days challenges that label and defends the honor of the trailer home. Via nearly 400 colorful and fun images... |
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