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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
Dorian Lynskey - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world.. As Dorian Lynskey writes, "People... |
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Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
Robert D. Kaplan - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography "In this deeply erudite literary, cultural,... |
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A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History
Michael Walsh - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Michael Walsh looks at twelve momentous battles that changed the course of Western history. . A sequel to Michael Walsh's Last Stands, his new book A Rage to Conquer is a journey through the twelve of the most important battles in Western history. As Walsh sees... |
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Buddy Levy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship -- and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making... |
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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
Josiah Osgood - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A historian of Rome "at the height of his powers" (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero. In its final decades, the Roman... |
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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
Juan Williams - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.. More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office.... |
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