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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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Library Journal12/01/2013
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Burns (Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Williams Coll.; Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom) is one of the most respected scholars of American history. One reads his books expecting them to be well... |
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Biohistory: Decline and Fall of the West
Jim Penman · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 283
Format: Paperback
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Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. In coming decades, economies will shrink, democracy will retreat and nations crumble. The long-term result will be grinding poverty, superstition and disease. This isn't scaremongering it is science. In Biohistory: The Decline and Fall... |
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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II
Kevin Wilson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II. The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February -- targeting German aircraft... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
Linda Robinson · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how - after a decade of intensive combat operations - special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam.... |
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ISIS: A History
Fawaz A Gerges · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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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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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
Drew Gilpin Faust · Vintage; Reprint edition
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
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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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Untitled
ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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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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Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival
Tim Jarvis · HarperCollins
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever - and in period clothing and gear - the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In... |
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
Nisid Hajari · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A few bloody months in South Asia during the summer of 1947 explain the world that troubles us today. Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British... |
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The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections
Nick Bantock · Chronicle Books; 1st edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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With sales of his Griffin & Sabine Trilogy surpassing three million copies, it's been said that Nick Bantock has created an original literary genre. Now he brings new meaning to the art of autobiography with The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections, in which he infuses the tale of his professional... |
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