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A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Tim Bryars · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper... |
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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
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In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued - known as the Hundred Days Campaign - saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked... |
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Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea
Erik Reece · Farrar
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or,... |
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American Home Cooking: A Popular History
TIM MILLER · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command, long-listed... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldnt have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By years end, Chinese Communist soldiers were setting... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 744
Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favilli · Timbuktu Labs
Pages: 212
Format: Print book
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"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" is a children's book packed with 100 BEDTIME STORIES about the life of 100 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 FEMALE ARTISTS from all over the world. Each woman's story is written in the style of a fairy... |
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant portrait of the "original affluent society"--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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