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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
William M. Arkin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.Drones, however, are only part of the problem.... |
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Stronger: Courage, Hope, and Humor in My Life with John McCain
Cindy McCain - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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My husband, John McCain, never viewed himself as larger than life - but he was. He had more tenacity and resolve than anybody I ever met. Being with him didn't hold me back - it gave me flight, a courage I never would have felt on my own. Cindy Hensley was just out of college when she met and fell... |
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Edward Slingerland - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends... |
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Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill.On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods... |
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Stampede: Gold Fever and Human Disaster in the Klondike
Brian Castner - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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