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Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Andrew Cockburn - Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An essential and page-turning narrative on the history of drone warfare by the acclaimed author of Rumsfeld, exploring how this practice emerged, who made it happen, and the real consequences of targeted killing Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination.... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Caribbean
DK Travel
Format: Paperback
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Escape to islands infused with vivacious culture.
Whether you want to join the world's biggest street party in Trinidad, cruise around the Virgin Islands or admire Havana's yesteryear architecture, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that the Caribbean has to offer.
The... |
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Ohio Indian Trails: Third Edition
Frank Wilcox - Kent State University Press
Pages: 168
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Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo - tribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever westward by the advancing white settlements - these were the native peoples of Ohio. They left behind little but their names, yet the trained... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison... |
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts,... |
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Paul Roberts - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It's something most of us have sensed for years--the rise of a world defined only by "mine" and "now." A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term... |
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston... |
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The sacrifices of service are indescribable -- except by those who have made them. Their personal stories of battlefield life reveal: - The goal to "be ready every day, every single day," -- and how that can quickly descend into chaos. - The realization that every solider must... |
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