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History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Brad Meltzer · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Kindle Edition |
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It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable... |
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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In the closing months of World War II Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weaponsBy the beginning of American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one The Japanese had so few metals left... |
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover |
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Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation’s signature means of “instant” communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen... |
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein · Anchor |
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From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball“No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they’re pitching or hitting in Triple-A.” —Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher“If you don’t... |
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Cities of Gold
Douglas Preston · William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
Format: Kindle Edition |
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Michael A. Ross · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down:... |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition |
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From Barnes & NobleThe "yesterday" and "today" implicit in the title are the few hundred years since the Industrial Revolution. Most of us forget that for more than 100,000 years, humankind lived in resilient hunter-gatherer societies that we ignore or dismiss unthinkingly... |
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Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
David Roediger · Verso
Format: Hardcover |
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How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedigers radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts... |
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No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle For Bastogne
Leo Barron · NAL Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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On Christmas Eve, the holiest of nights for the many Christian peoples of Europe, Adolf Hitler was unleashing the full fury of his remaining Luftwaffe bomber force on Bastogne. For Bastogne was the holdout city, center of Allied resistance to his Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhein) offensive—the... |
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