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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
Peter H Wilson · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy... |
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Journey to Marseilles: A Novel of WW II
Dennis Billuni · Hellgate Press
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by actual events, Journey to Marseilles follows two young Americans: Sam DiFranco, an idealistic G.I., and Rebecca Smit, a teenage expatriate living in the Netherlands. They each struggle for survival in a story of close camaraderie and desperate courage during World War II.Sam... |
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The Modern Explorers
Robin Hanbury-Tenison · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. This title deals with this topic. |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 319
Format: Print book
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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
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"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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How Did it Really Happen?
Reader's Digest Association. · The Digest
Pages: 351
Format: Book
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Unravel history's most puzzling mysteries in this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book. Why did the 'unsinkable' Titanic go down so quickly? Did the famous Hope Diamond really bring a curse on its owners or were the afflictions of murder, suicide, financial... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution that... |
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Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad
John R Schindler · Zenith Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Al-Qa'ida: in the 80s they were in Afghanistan, supported by America and fighting the Russians. In the new century they have metastasized throughout the world's geopolitical body. Where were they in the 90s? Unholy Terror provides the answer, with all its terrifying implications... |
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Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Kostas Vlassopoulos · Oxford University Press
Pages: 168
Format: Book
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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is embedded in the assumptions of Western powers who proclaim their faith in the global... |
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All This Hell: U. S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee · University Press of Kentucky; 1 edition
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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Before December 1941 drew to a close, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of WWII to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! 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... |
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