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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
Dorothy Wickenden
Format: Hardcover
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Harriet Tubman - no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant - was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances... |
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Hitler: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Oxford University Press
Pages: 1344
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While... |
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India in the 21st century : what everyone needs to know.
Mira Kamdar - Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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According to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world's second-largest economy, after China but ahead of the United States and the European Union. A democracy and an open society compared... |
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Craig Steven Wilder - Bloomsbury Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Charles J. Hanley - PublicAffairs
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secretsThe war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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