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A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
Stephen Kershaw · Running Press Book Publishers ; London Pages: 402 Format: Print book |
From Gladiator to 300, the true history of the classical world is revealed here and will include everything you need to know including: Why was Julius Caesar assassinated? Who were the Spartans? Where does democracy come from? Despite centuries of history, the ancient world still has a powerful... |
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
Drew Gilpin Faust · Vintage; Reprint edition Pages: 346 Format: Paperback |
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner Pages: 431 Format: Print book |
Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Pages: 267 Format: Print book |
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Mark Essig · Basic Books Format: Hardcover |
Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend - yet their flesh is banned... |
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Civil War in Apacheland: Sergeant George Hand's Diary, 1861-1864
George Hand · High-Lonesome Books Format: Hardcover |
The publication of Whiskey, Six-Guns and Red-Light Ladies in 1994 introduced readers to the ribald 1870s diary of frontier saloon keeper, George Hand. More than a decade earlier, George Hand kept another spirited journal, this one recording his service with the Union Army. Marching from... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 319 Format: Print book |
Winner of the 2015 NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. "Remarkable ... a richly detailed, affecting account ... Giridharadas seeks less to uplift than illuminate ... Which of these men is the '"true American'" of the title? That there is no simple... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister · Simon & Schuster Pages: 339 Format: Print book |
"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick · Viking Pages: 302 Format: Print book |
From the author of the forthcoming book, Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard, premiering on December 11, 2015 "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail... |
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ISIS: A History
Fawaz A Gerges · Princeton University Pres Pages: 296 Format: Print book |
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism... |
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