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The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory · Amistad
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King,... |
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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 Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York.... |
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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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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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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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Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Robert Kaplan · Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression is a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, acclaimed authors Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With... |
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Berlin at War
Roger Moorhouse · Basic Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a “world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler’s Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other... |
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King · Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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* Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction* Nominated for a 2013 Edgar Award * Book of the Year (Non-fiction, 2012) The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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