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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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Latin America 2015-2016
Blair Turner - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 49th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented... |
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Lighthouses of Southwest Michigan
Susan Roark Hoyt - Arcadia
Format: Paperback
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As the coastal towns of southwestern Michigan began to grow in the 1800s, commerce and shipping traffic flourished, making way for the development of lighthouses to ensure vessels' safe passage into port. Lighthouses of Southwest Michigan takes readers on an exciting journey through... |
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance... |
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2016 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP World History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect portal online, and 2 full-length... |
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Mammoth Book of the World Cup
Nick Holt - Robinson Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This is an all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2014 kick-off in Rio de Janeiro. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show... |
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Kinshasha Conwill - Smithsonian Books
Format: Print book
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Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present... |
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Eddie S Jr Glaude - Crown
Format: Book
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A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling... |
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The Great War and the Middle East
Rob Johnson - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Print book
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The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalized old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence... |
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2013 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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If you need to know it, it's in this book. Cracking the AP World History, 2013 Edition includes: * 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations * Comprehensive review of all topics from prehistoric times to the present * Timelines, summaries, and key term lists... |
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The Third War
Jay Solomon - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower comes a riveting, deeply reported exploration of the decades-long power struggle between Iran and the United States that led to a historic - and potentially disastrous - nuclear deal. For more... |
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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2013 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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If you need to know it, its in this book. Cracking the AP European History, 2013 Edition includes2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanationsComprehensive review of all test topics, including the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, the French Revolution,... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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The Middle Ages
Johannes Fried - Belknap Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes... |
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The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
Jon Wilson - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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"Jon Wilson visits often ignored arenas of British-Indian contact to mount a devastating critique of British rule. The exercise of sovereignty . . . was deemed sufficient unto itself. Policy-making was chaotic and implementation uneven. . . . The only constant was violence. This is a brave... |
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Douglas R Egerton - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage - southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle,... |
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On War: The Best Military Histories
Rick Atkinson - Pritzker Military Museum and Library
Format: Book
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As long as men have gone into battle, men have studied war. Herodotus and Tacitus were classic historians, analyzing the background of events. Thucydides used interviews to tell the story of the Peloponnesian War and Plutarch wrote biographies of famous people like Caesar and Alexander.... |
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A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets
Noah Lederman - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents' kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noah's grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tales of rebellion and death... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
David J Silverman - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks... |
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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Charles R Morris - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred generations of Americans. A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid and fast-paced account... |
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Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries
Jeremy Black - Conway Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and, later, to use mapping to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary... |
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Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2015 Edition: Created for the New 2015 Exam
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5 on the NEW 2015 EXAM!Equip yourself to ace the new AP U.S. History Exam with The Princeton Reviews comprehensive study guideincluding thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and 2 full-length practice tests with... |
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Wisconsin Dells
Bonnie Jean Alton - Arcadia
Format: Book
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The native people called this area Nish-ha-ki-sunch-la. Today it is known as the Wisconsin Dells, a beautiful five-mile gorge along the Wisconsin River. This book captures all that beauty in vintage postcards. Included are famous rock formations and towering sandstone cliffs such as Cold... |
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Seven Days of Infamy: Pearl Harbor Across the World
Nicholas Best - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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December 7, 1941: One of those rare days in world history that people remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when they heard the news.Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, and James Cagney were in Hollywood. Kurt Vonnegut was in the bath, and Dwight D. Eisenhower... |
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A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland
Sydney Nathans - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved... |
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Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present
John McKee Barr - LSU Press
Format: Hardcover
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While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed him not only as the worst president in the countrys history, but also as a criminal who defied the Constitution and advanced federal power and the idea of racial... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces... |
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Alex Von Tunzelmann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under... |
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Montana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Offbeat Fun
Ednor Therriault - Two Dot Books
Format: Paperback
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Montana Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affection - and a healthy dose of attitude - the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history. A fun, accessible read,... |
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Gloria J Browne-Marshall - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,... |
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The American War: A History of the Civil War Era
Gary W Gallgher - Flip Learning
Format: Print book
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In The American War, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, its aftermath, and enduring memory in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls, "easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date."... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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Cracking the AP U.S. history exam
Tom Meltzer; Jean Hofheimer Bennett; Susan Babkes; Princeton Review - Random House
Format: Book : English : 2014 ed
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Provides test-taking strategies, subject review, coverage of the two essay types, chapter of key terms and concepts organized by time period, and two full-length practice tests with explanations. |
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The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
Helon Habila - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Hardcover
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On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram.Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok... |
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Moon Vermont (Moon Handbooks)
Michael Blanding - Avalon Travel Publishing; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Authors and New England residents Michael Blanding and Alexandra Hall know the best of the Green Mountain State, from sampling artisan cheddar at the Grafton Village Cheese Company to skiing at Killington Mountain Resort. Blanding and Hall include unique trip strategies, such as "Vermont... |
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Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
Hugh Bicheno - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a dynamic two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses.England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos.The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent... |
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
Ian Davidson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson. The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom,... |
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Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality
Thomas J. Gradel - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: eBook
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Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. In Corrupt Illinois,... |
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Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey
Kaya Genç - I.B. Tauris
Format: Print book
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Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East -- caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Gen has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides... |
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Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
Thomas F Madden - Viking
Format: Print book
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The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia. The history... |
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
Stephen Mansfield - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book
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The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a perfect companion volume for history buffs or Tokyo-bound travelers looking to learn more about their destination.In a whirlwind journey through... |
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Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)
Princeton Review - Princeton Review; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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This comprehensive AP guide from the test-prep experts brings you everything you need to prepare for the AP U.S. History Exam. Inside Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2010 Edition you’ll find proven techniques and strategies, as well as:•2 full-length AP U.S. History practice... |
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East and Southeast Asia 2015-2016
Steven A. Leibo - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 48th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding - in one semester - of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative... |
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Ikes Gamble: Americas Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
Michael Doran - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956 - one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East - shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt, is Americas strongest regional ally.. In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take... |
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American Warlord: A True Story
Johnny Dwyer - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of 17 he followed his father to Liberia, where he ended up leading a murderous militia. Chucky is now in a federal penitentiary, the only American ever... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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The Ragged Edge: A US Marine's Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
Michael Zacchea - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military. Quickly, he realized he was faced... |
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Altitude Adjustment: A Quest For Love, Home, And Meaning In The Tetons
Mary Beth Baptiste - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman. To the horror of her traditional, ethnic family, she divorces her husband of fifteen years,... |
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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's... |
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Medieval Europe
Chris Wickham - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled... |
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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2017 Edition
Princeton Review. - Princeton Review
Format: Print book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP European History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - including 2 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our AP Connect online portal, and targeted strategies... |
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Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome
Paul N. Pearson - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor. Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman "of frightening appearance and colossal size" who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor Severus who enlisted... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw - Random House; Har/DVD edition
Format: Hardcover
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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing... |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes... |
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I, Who Did Not Die
Zahed Haftlang - Regan Arts
Format: Print book
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Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982 - It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution
Sam Willis - W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?The American Revolution involved... |
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
Cathal J Nolan - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations... |
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Moon St. Louis
Brooke S Foster - Avalon Travel, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014.
Format: Print book
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As a St. Louis resident, Brooke S. Foster knows the best ways to experience the Gateway City, from must-see sights like the Gateway Arch and the City Museum to great Northern Italian cuisine on the Hill. Foster provides travelers with unique trip strategies to help organize their visit,... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
Leonardo Marques - Yale Univ Press
Format: Print book
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An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects... |
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Jutland 1916 : twelve hours to win the war
Angus Konstam - Aurum Press
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Using a narrative approach, Jutland 1916 - Twelve Hours that Decided the War tells the story of the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval clash of the First World War.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman - Viking
Format: Print book
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The epic and controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell-line and, through it, some of the world s most important vaccines In June 1962, a young biologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Leonard Hayflick, using tissue extracted from an aborted... |
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Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Larrie D. Ferreiro - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie D. Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery,... |
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I -- conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
Stephen Anthony Smith - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve... |
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The History of Cuba
Clifford L. Staten Ph.D. - Greenwood; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This historical overview connects significant events from Cuba's past with the country's current social and political changes. Author Clifford L. Staten reviews the changing landscape of Cuba and explores subjects such as the relationship between the domestic and international political... |
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Richard J Evans - Viking
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services... |
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Birnbaum's 2015 Walt Disney World: The Official Guide
Birnbaum Guides - Disney Editions
Format: Book
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Birnbaum's Walt Disney World has been re-imagined! It boasts a bold new look and variety of added features, including a complete restaurant roundup with expanded details on all the dining options in Disney World, as well as a new chapter dedicated to Disney Cruise Line. We'll guide... |
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP World History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide—including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer... |
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The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
Constantine Pleshakov - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first... |
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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Birnbaum's 2015 Disneyland Resort: The Official Guide
Birnbaum Guides - Disney Editions
Format: Book
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This updated edition ofBirnbaum's Disneyland Resort, the most respected and well-known name in Disney guides, takes readers through Walt Disney's first theme park with ease and flair. Since our guide is the only guide that's official, this book includes the most accurate and current... |
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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP European History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide—including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer... |
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Wood for the trees : one man's long view of nature
Richard Fortey - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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"Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce... |
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Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Offbeat Fun
Brandon Griggs - Twodot
Format: Print book
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Utah Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affection - and a healthy dose of attitude - the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history. A fun, accessible read, Utah... |
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
Tom Segev - Metropolitan Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sownTom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million, overturned accepted views of the history of Israel.... |
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The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
Frank McDonough - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Written with access to previously unpublished records, this is the fullest and most definitive account available on Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo. The book illustrates how, despite its material constraints, this group was able to extend its reach widely and quickly by manipulating... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang
Max Décharné - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang -- from highwaymen to hip-hop -- is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture,... |
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
John Romer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades... |
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Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Gerald Steinacher - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot - Broadside
Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Katherine J Cramer - University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol... |
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Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy
Ece Temelkuran - Zed Books
Format: Print book
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Turkey is a nation of contradictions and contrasts. Though considered democratic, the Erdogan government has increasingly begun to resemble a dictatorship, jailing it opponents and violently suppressing dissent. And though Turkey is notionally secular, the Justice and Development Party's... |
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The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
Alexis Peri - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest... |
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Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241
John Haywood - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power... |
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At the Edge of the World: The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion
Jean-Vincent Blanchard - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey.An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded... |
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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
David J Barron - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The... |
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Western Europe 2015-2016
Wayne C. Thompson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Thirty-Fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The World Today Series Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the regions geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament,... |
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland
Rory Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of The Places in Between, "a flat-out masterpiece" (New York Times Book Review) , an exploration of the Marches - the borderland between England and Scotland - and the people, history, and conflicts that have shaped it In The Places... |
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The Middle East and South Asia 2015-2016
Malcolm Russell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 49th Edition edition
Format: Print book
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This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Understanding these regions means more than annually-updated details of the governments, politics,... |
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