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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Bryan Burrough - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory... |
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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
Eckart Frahm - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic... |
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The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Mtis Nation
Jean Teillet - Patrick Crean Editions
Format: Hardcover
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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada's Indigenous peoples - the story of the Mtis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty... |
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Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World
Tuki Drake - University of Hawaii Press
Format: Paperback
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Mata Austronesia is a collection of illustrated stories told by Austronesians past and present -- an (ethno) graphic novel. Mata, the word for "eye" in numerous Austronesian languages, represents the common origin of the many distinctive Austronesian peoples spread throughout... |
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Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (Civil War America)
Elizabeth D Leonard - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this... |
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The Great Reset: And the War for the World
ALEX JONES - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. From central bankers, corporate billionaires, and corrupted... |
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Paul Auster - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before... |
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The Cold War Brain
Andreas Killen - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this eye-opening chronicle of the scientific research and experiments into the brain during the Cold War era, acclaimed historian Andreas Killen identifies both the genesis of and instigator for our continued fascination.While America flourished in the golden years of the 1950s, the decade... |
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