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On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography
· Abrams Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern... |
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
Stephen Alford · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing... |
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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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1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War
Marc Wortman · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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Officially, America entered World War II on December 8, 1941 the day after the bombing of Peal Harbor, but even before that infamous day America had been at war. Long before, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been supporting the Allies. While Americans were sympathetic to the people being crushed... |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded... |
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Hannibal
Patrick Hunt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.
Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient... |
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History and uncertain future of handwriting
Anne Trubek · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed... |
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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... |
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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
Adam Sharr · Oxford University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified) , it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical... |
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The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping
Lucy Maddox · Temple University Press, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could... |
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor · Amistad
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow... |
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Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
Karen Hellman · Getty Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In the years following the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundational to the establishment... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time
Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine... |
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