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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Umbria
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Whether you're looking to explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Assisi, unwind by Lake Trasimeno or marvel at the cliffside city of Orvieto, this guide will help you choose things to do in Umbria to create the perfect trip.Follow carefully plotted itineraries around Perugia and Terni,... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood · Basic Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Tim McGrath · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Five ships against hundreds - the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen ... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds... |
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C Scott · Yale University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors... |
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Connecticut Icons: Classic Symbols of the Nutmeg State
Charles Monagan · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Monagan knows Connecticut. As editor of Connecticut Magazine he has spent years discovering and describing the people, places, and things that comprise the character of his home state. With this entertaining collection of photos, anecdotes, and little-known facts, Monagan presents... |
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Daniel Oppenheimer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political... |
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The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Agustín Fuentes · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond s million-copy-selling classic "Guns, Germs, and Steel, " a bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question:... |
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Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919?1945
JULIA BOYD · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices -- even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett -- into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what's... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA · Liveright
Pages: 640
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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Judy: The Unforgettable Story of the Dog Who Went to War and Became a True Hero
Damien Lewis · Quercus
Format: Print book
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British bestselling author Damien Lewis is an award-winning journalist who has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones. Now Lewis brings his first-rate narrative skills to bear on the inspiriting tale of Judy--an English pointer who perhaps was the only canine... |
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