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Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
Jack Kelly · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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Eisenberg Originals: The Golden Years of Fashion, Jewelry, and Fragrance, 1920s-1950s
Sharon G Schwartz · Schiffer Fashion Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Eisenberg was one of the first American design houses, and the jewelry that bears its mark is among the finest costume pieces ever created. Yet there is surprisingly little written about the company, and almost nothing about the other products it marketed. In more than 400 photographs,... |
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
John A Nagy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary... |
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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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American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document... |
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Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s
Stanley Nelson · Louisiana State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building... |
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
John Romer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades... |
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Rare Birds: Forgotten Aircraft of the Second World War
Charles R G Bain · Fonthill Media
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The Second World War saw the apex of piston-engine aircraft design, and ushered the world into the jet age. Anybody who studies aviation will know the names: Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Messerschmitt, Shturmovik. But there were many more aircraft to take to the skies before and during the war,... |
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This Way Madness Lies
Mike Jay · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 255
Format: Print book
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A compelling and evocatively illustrated exploration of the evolution of the asylum, and its role in society over the course of four centuriesThis Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home:... |
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Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Adrian Goldsworthy · Yale University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman Peace from one of the leading historians of the ancient world Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second... |
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