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Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Beebe Bahrami · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil,... |
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
NGUGI WA THIONG'O · The New Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release... |
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
Ivan Chistyakov · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labor camp -- long suppressed -- that will become a cornerstone of understanding the Soviet Union. Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow,... |
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C Waterhouse · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.The Land of Enterprise... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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The Netanyahu Years
BEN CASPIT · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit... |
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The House in Prague: How a Stolen House Helped an Immigrant Girl Find Her Way Home
Anna Nessy Perlberg · Golden Alley Press
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
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A cherished house, the family it sheltered, and the true meaning of home 1939: the Nazis have invaded Prague. Little Anna huddles with her doll in the corner of a train car while a German officer shrieks, "You are Jews!" Fleeing for their lives, her family has abandoned their... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell · Amazon Publishing
Pages: 570
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert... |
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10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850
Fred Q Bowman · Genealogical Co.
Pages: 318
Format: Book
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The 10,000 vital records in this work were drawn from the marriage and death columns of five western New York newspapers published before 1850: the Republican Advocate of Batavia, the Steuben Farmers Advocate of Bath, the Geneva Gazette, the Jamestown Journal, and Palmyra's Wayne... |
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Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval
HEINZ SCHILLING · OXFORD University Press
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther.In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation... |
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Naturally Brewed, Naturally Better: The Historic Breweries of Duluth & Superior
Tony Dierckins · Zenith City Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Beer brewing was the first industry at the Head of the Lakes, started in 1859 by German and French immigrants. Pioneer breweries bounced between economic booms and busts until 1885, when August Fitger took charge of the Lake Superior Brewery. Four major breweries Fitger's, Duluth Brewing... |
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