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The Confederate Steam Navy: 1861-1865
Donald L Canney · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built) , commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating... |
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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Gareth Porter · Just World Books
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
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Manufactured Crisis provides unique and timely background to the ongoing diplomacy around Iran's nuclear technology program. In it, award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter offers a well documented critique of the official 'western' account of what the Iranian... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast
Joe Nigg · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 487
Format: Print book
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Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much... |
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Historians Debate the Rise of the West
Jonathan Daly · Routledge
Format: Hardcover
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How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major scholars’ evaluations of the biggest picture of all: how Western civilization fits... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places
Margaret Doody · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Jane Austens works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid... |
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The City in Texas: A History
David G. McComb · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the states people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 and 1950, however, the balance shifted from rural to urban, and today 88 percent of Texans live in cities and embrace the amenities of urban culture.... |
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Starting Up Silicon Valley: How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company
Katherine Maxfield · Emerald Book Company
Format: Book
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From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing ''the world's toughest computer.'' That was the founding... |
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