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Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey
Kevin McLean · Potomac Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul University replaced by communists. He witnesses his classmates "disappearing." The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the true story of Popal's escape... |
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ITAMAR RABINOVICH · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty... |
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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
Debora Diniz · Zed Books
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
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The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidemic. Nowhere has this devastation been more deeply felt than in Alagoas, a small rural province in northeast Brazil. It was here that the most... |
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The Moon: A History for the Future
Oliver Morton · The Economist
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with itEvery generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse---and... |
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
CHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon -- as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt cops and politiciansFollowing doctors and detectives, environmental activists and indigenous tribes, The Third Bank of the River... |
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National Geographic Almanac 2019: Hot New Science, Fearless Explorers, Epic Adventures. Incredible Photographs
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way.An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key information on science, nature, history, and geography,... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 651
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
Jess Row · Graywolf Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white... |
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk... |
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