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Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work
Nancy W. Sindelar · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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Ernest Hemingway embraced adventure and courted glamorous friends while writing articles, novels, and short stories that captivated the world. Hemingway's personal relationships and experiences influenced the content of his fiction, while the progression of places where the author chose... |
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Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
Richard J. Grace · McGill-Queen's University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies... |
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Now I See You: A Memoir
Nicole C. Kear · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kears biggest concern is choosing a major--until she walks into a doctors office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before Lights... |
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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
Kwasi Kwarteng · PublicAffairs
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover |
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The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn't... |
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The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
Gil Troy · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the charismatic and flawed baby boomer president,... |
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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
David S. Heidler · Random House
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover |
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History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation's first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them. In 1789,... |
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No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken
Norman Van Aken · Natl Book Network
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken's joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs - including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with "no experience necessary."Long considered a culinary renegade... |
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Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty
K. M. Kostyal , · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover |
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Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The eras dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated... |
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