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How to Be Danish: A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark
Patrick Kingsley - Atria Books/Marble Arch Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it’s the home of The Killing and Noma, the world’s best (and most eccentric) restaurant. We wear their sweaters, watch their thrillers, and covet their cool modern design, but how much do we really... |
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The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-"to see the most typical section of the English working class." Foreword by Victor... |
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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story
Michael Rosen - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes... |
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It's Up to the Women
Eleanor Roosevelt - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking... |
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Blood runs green : the murder that transfixed gilded age Chicago
Gillian O'Brien - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Chicago's Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected... |
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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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Prohibition: A Concise History
W J Rorabaugh - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states... |
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Disraeli: The Novel Politician
Prof. David Cesarani - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish... |
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Emerson W. Baker - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins... |
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The Routledge companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander literature
Rachel C Lee - Routledge
Format: Print book
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The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume: Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories,... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Alexander Laban Hinton - Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover
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During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes... |
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way
P J O'Rourke - Pgw
Format: Hardcover
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P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions,... |
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The Mayflower
Kate Caffrey - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reissue edition
Format: Print book
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The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living. During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim... |
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson - Random House; Third Impression edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire - three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle,... |
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
Peter McPhee - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century... |
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Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War
Richard A. Serrano - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota,... |
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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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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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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
Daniel Oppenheimer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures - from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens - who abandoned the left and joined the right.In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political... |
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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M Hersh - Verso
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a group of Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbotabad and killed Osama Bin Laden, the man the United States had been chasing since before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost Obama's first term and played a major part in his re-election... |
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
JOHN MAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive... |
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The Age of the Vikings
Anders Winroth - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network. They traveled far from their homelands in swift... |
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The Red Scare, UFOs & Elvis: : Long Beach Enters the Atomic Age
Claudine Burnett - AuthorHouse
Format: Paperback
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The baby boomer generation (1946-1964) grew up in a time of dramatic social change. Their experiences in the Cold War were very different from those of their parents. While adults perceived communism as a threat to the American way of life - to their health and well-being and those of their... |
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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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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
Jennifer T. Roberts - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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The Politics Book
DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more The Politics Book clearly and simply... |
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The Bomb
Howard Zinn - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal reflections and political analysis... |
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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Paying Freedom's Price: A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Paul David Escott - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans - both slave and free - from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist... |
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American Indian Women
Patrick Deval - Abbeville Press Publishers, 2015. 2015
Format: Print book
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A wide-ranging visual history of American Indian women, from pre-Columbian times to the presentDespite their important roles in religious, political, and family life, the stories of American Indian women have remained largely untold, or else have been obscured by the glamorizing eye of popular... |
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Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss
CARMEN GENTILE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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I turn to see a rocket-propelled grenade screaming toward me. The ordinance strikes me in the side of the head, instantly blinding me in one eye and crushing the right side of my face. On September 9, 2010, while embedded with an Army unit and talking with locals in a small village in eastern... |
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister - soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman."He was speaking to the nation, the world,... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
JOHN KEAHEY - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A travel narrative that focuses on Sicily's little-known regions, from the author of Seeking Sicily and Hidden Tuscany.From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Tradition, in the form of festivals, the written... |
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12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today
Matthew W. Hughey - New Press, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Called a book that "is factual yet reads like a novel" on the Huffington Post, 12 Angry Men reveals some pointed truths about our nation as a dozen African American authors from across the United States tell their personal stories of being racially profiled.In this "extraordinarily... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity... |
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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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American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
BOOTH MOORE - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear... |
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Virtual Culture: The Way We Work Doesn't Work Anymore, a Manifesto
Bryan Miles - Lioncrest Publishing
Format: Paperback
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It's the twenty-first century, yet most companies maintain a twentieth century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly,... |
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Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
Judith E. Smith - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential... |
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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
Richard Branson - Portfolio; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the worlds ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.. Richard Bransons Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge... |
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Japanese Art
Joan Stanley-Baker - Thames & Hudson; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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"A long-needed presentation of Japanese art that concisely offers inclusive coverage from prehistoric times to the twentieth century." -- Choice The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed... |
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Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople
Richard Fidler - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." -- Simon WinchesterGhost Empire is a rare treasure -- an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated... |
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that... |
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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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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage... |
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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
Randall S Peffer - Berkley Calibre
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Venice & the Veneto
Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing, 2016.
Format: Print book
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Venice and the Veneto takes you by the hand, leading you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer.DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover the best of Venice and the Veneto, whether you want to take in the dramatic... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Yahoo's national political columnist and the former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics.In 1987, Gary Hart-articulate, dashing,... |
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In The Occupiers,... |
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The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
Richard W Bulliet - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently... |
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Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Brooke Borel - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today... |
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This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
DAVID ARIOSTO - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelvesFidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain.... |
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After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
James Robertson - National Geographic Society
Format: Hardcover
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Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold... |
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The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Paul Taylor - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover
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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity,... |
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941–1943 (The War in the West Book 2)
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Volume two in this "expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining" history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus) .. James Hollands The Rise of Germany, the first volume in his War in the West trilogy, was widely praised for his impeccable... |
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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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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
David Pilling - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[A]n excellent book..." - The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Victor Davis Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historianWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma... |
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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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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Australia
Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing, 2016.
Format: Print book
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Australia takes you by the hand, leading you straight to the best attractions this country has to offer.DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover the best of Australia, region-by-region, from the aboriginal sights of the Northern... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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Dante: The Story of His Life
Marco Santagata - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles -- writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex... |
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Somme: Into the Breach
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign -- victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian... |
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The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789?955
MAX ADAMS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century.... |
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Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
David Philipps - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Print book
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When the 506th Infantry Regiment - known since World War II as the Band of Brothers - returned to Colorado Springs after their first tour in Iraq, a series of brutal crimes swept through the city. The Band of Brothers had been deployed to the most violent places in Iraq, and some of the soldiers... |
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible
Chanan Tigay - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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A gripping account of one man's quest to find the oldest Bible in the world and solve the riddle of the brilliant, doomed antiquities dealer accused of forging it. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira--archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem's... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Jonathan Fenby - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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South Africa: the art of a nation
John Giblin - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A unique insight into South Africa's history, from iconic pre-colonial artifacts to the country's vibrant contemporary art scene South African archaeology preserves some of the earliest evidence of artistic thought and production anywhere in the world. Today, South Africa has an established... |
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Ancient Egypt: Everyday Life in the Land of the Nile
Bob Brier - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid view of life in ancient Egypt. More than 5,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians founded one of the world's oldest civilizations. We know of its pyramids, art, and pharaohs. But what was life really like then? Ordinary citizens in ancient Egypt lived and worked in much the same... |
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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jonathan Schneer - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardIssued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people," and its reverberations... |
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalins Gulags in Putins Russia
Masha Gessen - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago." (Kirkus Reviews) "A short, haunting and beautifully written book." (The Wall Street Journal) The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Brazil
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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Explore all Brazil has to offer from idyllic sandy beaches, the lush Amazon rain forest, and the vast Pantanal wetland to colonial Salvador or Modernist Braslia, and the exciting cities of Rio de Janeiro and So Paulo.DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil is full of inspiring photography... |
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
Matthew Carr - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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To know what war is, one should follow our tracks, General William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Shermans Ghosts is an investigation of the tracks left by the wars fought by the American military in the 150 years since Shermans... |
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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality
Brooks D. Simpson - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing There are few periods in American history more consquential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation... |
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The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring
Paul Danahar - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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For the past forty years the story of the Middle East has been simple. The news images flashing across our TV screens from the Middle East provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes military action from the international community. But now the handful of dictators who ruled over hundreds of millions... |
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One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
Bing West - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon... |
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They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq
Kelly Kennedy - St. Martin's Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Charlie 1-26 confronted one of the worst neighborhoods in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since Vietnam Based on “Blood Brothers”, the Michael Kelly Awardnominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed... |
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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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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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Immigrant Families
Cecilia Menjívar - Polity
Format: Print book
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Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families.There is no quintessential... |
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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
David Hirst - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lebanon, a country no bigger than Connecticut, has become a battleground for the political, strategic and ideological conflicts of its neighbors and the great powers. It has come to reflect the broad historical experiences of the modern Middle East. Beware of Small States is an elegant... |
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Kathmandu
Thomas Bell - Haus Publishing Ltd
Format: Print book
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One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city - exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu... |
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
Malcolm Lambert - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin:... |
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Kentuckians in Illinois
Stuart Sprague - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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Professor Sprague has assembled a list of Kentuckians who migrated migrated to Illinois. Passing over conventional record sources, he has used information from published county histories and county atlases. Arranged in tabular format under the county of origin, entries include some or all of the following... |
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Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History
William Woys Weaver - University of California Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters,... |
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G Calloway - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle--and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape,... |
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Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America
Joseph Tirella - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses - New York's "Master Builder" - brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65... |
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Greek Art
John Boardman - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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"One of the very best short histories of Greek Art." -- The Financial TimesJohn Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, the most influential and widely known historic artistic tradition... |
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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 Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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Jim Crow's Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Ruth Thompson-Miller - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Jim Crows Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book draws on interviews with elderly African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation of racism not only... |
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The Latter Days: A Memoir
Judith Freeman - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took - sometimes unwittingly - out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church-owned department store in the Utah town where... |
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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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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Laura Engelstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr... |
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The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
Eric Blehm - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“The Only Thing Worth Dying For will become an enduring classic.” —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story, The Only Thing Worth Dying For.... |
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Cundill History Prize . The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of "the vast prison without a roof" that was Russias Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War
Jeffrey E Stern - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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There, a few thousand students are learning not just to read and write and add, but to question, criticize, make provocative art. To sing, poke fun at one another, to protest. The Teacher named the school "Marefat" because it means "knowledge" but also all its derivatives:... |
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The Civil War: A Visual History
DK Publishing - DK; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating and complete guide to the Civil War, this book includes compelling information on the War between the States, Abraham Lincoln, slavery in America, the Confederacy and the Union. Every effort has been made to make Civil War reliable and complete - the book was created with... |
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Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
STEPHEN BRUMWELL - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining... |
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A Short History of the Normans
Leonie V Hicks - I.B. Tauris
Format: Print book
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The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex.... |
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The Making of Asian America: A History
Erika Lee - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds... |
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage... |
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