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World War One: A Short History
Norman Stone - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen... |
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Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo
David Crane - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon's escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace back into the frenzied panic of a war it believed had ended. "The whole complexion of the world is changed again," writes... |
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace
Richard Bessel - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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"Fascinating ... .Bessel does an excellent job of evoking the blasted landscape of a conquered Germany." - The New Yorker "A sober yet powerful account." - New York Times Book Review Authoritative and dramatic, Germany 1945 by distinguished British historian Richard... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up.... |
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The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Robert S Boynton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project... |
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
N A TeÌ?ffi - New York Review Books
Format: Print book
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Considered Teffi's single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author's last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.In... |
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
John Naughton - Quercus
Format: Hardcover
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John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities... |
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Peter Finn - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit... |
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
Charles Fountain - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein.... |
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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
Patrick Rael - University of Georgia Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick... |
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
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Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill - Nation Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom - Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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Great Escapes: The Stories Behind 50 Remarkable Journeys to Freedom
Scott Chrisitanson - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning visual record of the worlds most audacious and compelling escapes and escape attempts. Whether escaping from a prison or evading an enemy, individuals have shown extraordinary courage and inventiveness during their bids for freedom. Great Escapes relates fascinating details... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter - Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel... |
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Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Ira Berlin - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation,... |
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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
Adrian Goldsworthy - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman... |
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
Brian Fagan - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond... |
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history - the historical backdrop for Game of ThronesThe crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought... |
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The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Anna Bikont - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truthJan Grosss hugely controversial Neighbors was a historians disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America’s founding principles,... |
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Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
Anastacia Marx de Salcedo - Current
Format: Hardcover
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Americans eat more processed foods than anyone else in the world. We also spend more on military research. These two seemingly unrelated facts are inextricably linked. If you ever wondered how ready-to-eat foods infiltrated your kitchen, you'll love this entertaining romp through the secret... |
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The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais - Verso
Format: Print book
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Kenneth C. Davis - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine) , Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold... |
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The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
Doug Rossinow - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the s Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagans presidency and the ideology of Reaganism Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy Reaganite conservatives in the s achieved impressive success in their... |
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Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
Rywka Lipszyc - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The newly discovered diary of a Polish teenager in the Lodz ghetto during World War II - originally published by Jewish Family & Children's Services of San Francisco, now available in a revised, illustrated, and beautifully designed trade edition.After more than seventy years in obscurity,... |
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
William M. Arkin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.Drones, however, are only part of the problem.... |
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Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
Francine Prose - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl ... Extraordinary testimony to the power of literature and compassion" -Booklist (starred review)In Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife,... |
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Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language
Rosemarie Ostler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
Earl J. Hess - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil Wars Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Shermans advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city.... |
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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "Peyton Place"
Ardis Cameron - Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, Peyton Place, Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon. |
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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the worlds workour workgets done. From Bartleby the Scrivener to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating,... |
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
Glenn Beck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit... |
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Charles King
Format: Book
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"Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book." -- Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's... |
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais - Verso
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s.Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
Robert Coram - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia used dogged determination to achieve his dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires others to work with him to make... |
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Path of Blood: The Story of Al Qaeda's War on the House of Saud
Thomas Small - Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the makers of the forthcoming documentary, the history of Al Qaeda’s secret war against Saudi Arabia Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country,... |
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Tim Butcher - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo... |
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Computer: A History of the Information Machine
Martin Campbell-Kelly - Westview Press; Third Edition, Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer... |
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto - Harper
Format: Print book
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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II - an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption - this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Craig Nelson - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited... |
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First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I
Matthew J. Davenport - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: eBook
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The riveting true story ofAmericas first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the U.S. Armys 1st Division climbed from their trenches,... |
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Nelson A Denis - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight... |
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The Snowden Reader
David P. Fidler - Indiana University Press
Format: Print book
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When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
John Sweeney - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and, at times, frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean society. North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning... |
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Gwen Ifill - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama's stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. Ifill... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
Trevor Paglen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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Blank Spots on the Map is an expose of an empire that continues to grow every year - and which, officially, it isn't even there. It is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a young geographer's road trip through the underworld of U.S. military and C.I.A. "black... |
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The Bomb: A New History
Stephen Michael Younger - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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"Younger has provided an insightful guide, especially for the general reader, into today's array of nuclear powers and their capabilities." - James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, former Director of Central IntelligenceIn The Bomb, Stephen... |
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Flash Boys: Not So Fast: An Insider's Perspective on High-Frequency Trading
Peter Kovac - Directissima Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis alleged that the entire U.S. stock market is rigged. This is an extraordinarily serious accusation. If it is true that a conspiracy of stock exchanges, banks, regulators and high-frequency traders has rigged the market, this has profound implications for every... |
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Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Leonard Shlain - Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the potential for humankind through the life, art, and mind of the first true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. The author hypothesizes that da Vinci's staggering range of achievements demonstrates a harbinger of the future of our species. Da Vinci's... |
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Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world warsDuring the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
Richard Beck - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety of children.During the 1980s... |
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Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest
Ginger Adams Otis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York City firefighter, he stepped into a world that was 100% white and predominantly Irish. As far as this city knew, black men in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) tended horses.Nearly a century later, many things in the FDNY had changed... |
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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich
Jochen Hellbeck - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet... |
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America's founding principles,... |
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China: A History
John Keay - Basic Books; n Second printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. With the world's longest tradition of history-writing, its extraordinary past ought to be common knowledge. China, by the eminent historian John Keay, should make it so.Informed... |
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The Evolution of God
Robert Wright - Little, Brown
Format: Print book
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In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings... |
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Atlas of the Civil War: A Complete Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle
Neil Kagan - National Geographic Society
Format: Map
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Charts the ebb and flow of the war between the North and the South with 110 maps, both vintage battle maps and vivid recreations, and includes over 320 documentary photos, battlefield sketches, paintings, and artifacts that bear eyewitness testimony to thTitle: Atlas of the Civil WarAuthor:... |
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