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Figuring
Maria Popova · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine... |
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Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
Jackie Speier · Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege.Born in late nineteenth-century Georgia, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. Their father was a member of the KKK; the older girls performed at rallies... |
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Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking--150 Vegetarian Recipes
Michelle Rousseau · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A lush, modern vegetarian cookbook celebrating the bold flavors and unique ingredients of the Caribbean In Provisions, Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau share 150 recipes that pay homage to the meals and market produce that have been farmed, sold, and prepared by Caribbean people--particularly... |
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