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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh - University of Chicago Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted... |
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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Tom Standage
Format: Hardcover
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Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Now, he returns with a provocative account of an overlooked form of technology-personal transportation-and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over... |
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George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives - from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen... |
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Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
James Walvin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed author of Sugar explains one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries -- the end of the slave empires.In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance... |
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