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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
Robin Waterfield · Oxford University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy,... |
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Acid West: Essays
JOSHUA WHEELER · MCD x FSG Originals
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first... |
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Traces of Vermeer
JANE JELLEY · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment... |
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American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction
Craig L Symonds · Oxford University Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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This fast-paced narrative charts the history of the US Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British during... |
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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Laura Engelstein · Oxford University Press
Pages: 856
Format: Hardcover
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr... |
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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
JOHN F LEHMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe,... |
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Cleopatra's Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Duane W Roller · Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome.... |
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Myths of Magical Native American Women Including Salt Woman Stories
Teresa Pijoan · Sunstone Press
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
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Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place... |
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution
Robert P Watson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck without light or fresh air, the disease-ridden prisoners were scarcely given food and water. More Americans... |
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Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years
Joseph C Ewoodzie · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The origin story of hip-hop - one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx - has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching... |
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Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867
Andrew Edward Masich · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual... |
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Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
Zohra Drif-Bitat · Just World Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct... |
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THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE: FORGOTTEN WORKS & WORLDS OF HERBERT CROWLEY
Justin Duerr · Beehive Books
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
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Prior to his disappearance, Herbert Crowley was an innovator at the dawn of comics, and a defining figure of the early 20th century avant-garde. His illustrations were featured alongside work by Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh in the 1913 Armory Show that gave birth to modern art in America.... |
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Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate
Sally Fallon Morell · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate--and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished, todayThe Paleo craze has taken over the world. It asks curious dieters... |
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