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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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On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time
CARL CANNON · Twelve
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Forget what you were taught in seventh grade - Carl Cannon's ON THIS DATE takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}... |
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Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
Michael McGirr · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A profound exploration of the precious resource of sleep -- and of the causes and consequences of getting too little of it. Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping. The arrival of baby twins, however, made him realize that he'd never before known true exhaustion. And while he celebrated... |
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Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition
Hieronymus Bosch · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive look at the work of Jheronimus Bosch, published to coincide with the 5th centenary of the artist's death and in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo del PradoJheronimus van Aken (1450-1516) was born and lived in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc)... |
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
Miriam Gebhardt · Polity
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover
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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
REBECCA SKLOOT · BROADWAY BOOKS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Soon to be an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important... |
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Riding with George: Sportsmanship & Chivalry in the Making of America's First President
Philip Smucker · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Long before George Washington was a president or general, he was a sportsman. Born in 1732, he had a physique and aspirations that were tailor made for his age, one in which displays of physical prowess were essential to recognition in society. At six feet two inches and with a penchant... |
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History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town
Filip Springer · Restless Books
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
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Winner of Asymptote Journal's 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.Lying... |
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Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917, upwards of 500,000 men were killed or wounded, maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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