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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
ANNE APPLEBAUM · Doubleday
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the U.S. Media
JIM DEBROSSE · Trine Day
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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After more than fifty years of new evidence and new theories, the Warren Commission's claim that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and without clear motive in assassinating John F. Kennedy, has become a wheezing jalopy running on missing and broken parts and fueled with lies. And yet the U.S.... |
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California comeback : how "failed state" became a model for the nation
Narda Zacchino · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown. In the most economically important state in the country and the 7th largest economy in the world a political revolution of historic importance... |
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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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Alaska Earthquake '64
Susie Gibson · Wizard Works
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
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A collection of 50 first-person reminiscences of the great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. This book contains some amusing anecdotes, heartwarming stories, and a few terrifying tales, as well as a section on earthquake preparedness. It is illustrated by 40 black and white photographs. The back... |
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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In the small hours of the morning of June 3, 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. Only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later did the full story emerge. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot... |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang · Anchor Books
Pages: 524
Format: Paperback
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"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris."An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times |
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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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Pueblo deco
Carla Breeze · Rizzoli International Publications
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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Beautiful color photographs and a descriptive text survey examples of an architecture and design style developed in the southwestern US in the early 20th century. A design style that combines Old West motifs from Indian and Hispanic culture with art deco sensibilities. |
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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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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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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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The Times Complete History of the World
Geoffrey Barraclough · William Collins
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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The ultimate work of historical referenceFrom cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of theWorld is the book that has all the answers.This is the most comprehensive,... |
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