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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Amanda Ripley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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How Do Other Countries Create “Smarter” Kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. What is it like... |
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America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
Joseph Kelly - Overlook Hardcover; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1863, Union forces surrounded the city of Charleston. Their vice-like grip on the harbor would hold the city hostage for nearly two years, becoming the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. But for almost two centuries prior, a singular ideology forged among the headstrong... |
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland
Robert Fitzroy Foster - Oxford Univ. Press
Format: Print book
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Few countries in the world have such a compelling, individual, and stirring history as Ireland. This new volume, the latest in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated Histories series, offers the most authoritative account of Irish history yet published for the general reader. Written... |
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The Town That Started the Civil War
Nat Brandt - Syracuse Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover
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In a work of first-rate scholarship as well as popular history at its most enjoyable, Brandt, former editor of Publishers Weekly , introduces readers to a little-known event that occurred in the college town of Oberlin, Ohio, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Slave-hunters incurred the resentment... |
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Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg: And Virginia's Historic Triangle
Sue Corbett - Globe Pequot
Format: Print book
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Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Written by a local (and true insider) , this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,... |
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The Long Road Home
Martha Raddatz - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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NOW A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MINISERIES EVENTABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of "Black Sunday" - a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq war. The First Cavalry Division... |
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