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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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Going Deep: How Wide Receivers Became the Most Compelling Figures in Pro Sports
Cris Carter · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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How Wideouts Became the NFLs StandoutsFrom the time Cris Carter started his career as a supplemental draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1987 to his retirement in 2002, the position of wide receiver exploded in the NFL. Receivers went from being quiet and classy to being known for their... |
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Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side
Dan Rooney · University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Allegheny City, known today as Pittsburghs North Side, was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania when it was controversially annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1907. Founded in 1787 as a reserve land tract for Revolutionary War veterans in compensation for their service, it quickly evolved... |
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Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
Larry P Arnn · Thomas Nelson Inc
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment. Churchill faced his own death, often and bravely. He led millions... |
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The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans
Janelle Moore · Government Institutes; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next—even completing tasks that seem easy like submitting paperwork—can... |
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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
John N. Maclean · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high-tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
Thomas P. Slaughter · Hill & Wang
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover
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An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it."... |
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To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Simon Garfield · Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age. Few things are as exciting—and potentially life-changing—as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice,... |
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
William Dalrymple · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the Wests greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With... |
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Gun Politics in America
Harry L Wilson · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 791
Format: Print book
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Offering the most complete collection of primary documents on the subject of guns and gun politics, this two-volume set will give readers a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of the complex and often-surprising evolution of gun ownership, gun culture, and gun politics in the United States.... |
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A Chronology of Art
Iain Zaczek · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movementsMost surveys of the history of art are divided into historic periods, artistic schools, and movements. In reality, movements and artists'... |
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