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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Peru
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Peru with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - see Machu Picchu at dawn, explore the stunning... |
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Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization
Elena Conis - University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American... |
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British... |
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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Lee Sandlin - Pantheon; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America’s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing... |
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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 Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Ruth DeFries - Basic Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our species long lived on the edge of starvation Now we produce enough food for all billion of us to eat nearly calories every day This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened of the ratchetsthe... |
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Lessons from Little Rock
Terrance Roberts - Butler Center for Arkansas Studies; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Sober news reports of a US Army convoy rumbling across the bridge into Little Rock cannot overpower this intimate powerful personal account of the integration of Little Rock Central High School Showing what it felt like to be one of those nine students who wanted only a good high school... |
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Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the people of the desert
NICHOLAS JUBBER - Nicholas Brealey
Format: Paperback
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The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks... |
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The Histories
Herodotus - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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One of Western history's greatest books springs to life in Tom Holland's vibrant new translation Herodotus of Halicarnassus - who was hailed by Cicero as "the father of history" - wrote his histories around 440 BC. It is the earliest surviving work of nonfiction and a thrilling... |
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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In the small hours of the morning of June 3, 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. Only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later did the full story emerge. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot... |
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
Joy Mangano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From visionary entrepreneur and inventor, Joy Mangano, comes a powerful and inspirational blueprint for living with more success, confidence, and happiness in work and life.A true American original, Joy Mangano carved her own path to fame and fortune with courage, creativity, and sheer... |
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times,... |
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First circumnavigators : unsung heroes of the age of discovery
Harry Kelsey - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey s masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially importantyet almost always overlookedchapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.After... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Cuba
DK. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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Explore Cuba, the famous Caribbean island, and stop by Old Havana, visit museums, and eat authentic moros y cristianos.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make your trip outstanding. Whether you're looking for unique... |
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The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices
Gerald Shea - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly... |
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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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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
Yaakov Katz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
Sally Denton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power (which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the most important nonfiction books published in a half century") - the inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they've controlled since the construction... |
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
JULIA PIERPONT - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. A Stylist Must-read Book of 2018 In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising... |
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National Geographic The Civil War: A Traveler's Guide
National Geographic. - National Geographic Soc, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Perfect for tour planning and on-the-ground use, this guide will prove indispensable on any expedition to explore Civil War history in America. Packed with color photographs, more than 600 historic battlefield and additional Civil War related sites, walking tours, 50 detailed maps, and the collective... |
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Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition
Lewis Perry - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, the justifications used to defend it, disagreements... |
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How The World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
Peter Conrad - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From politics and war, to jeans and sneakers a look at Americas influence on the world from an international perspective On the day after 911, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing We Are All Americans Now. Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
W. Craig Reed - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, forty-six-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades their work has remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed, a former U.S.... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
Tom Brokaw - Random House Audio
Format: Audio CD
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Tom Brokaw recounts the endgame of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency in real time, from his perspective in the press corps as a young White House correspondent for NBC News.The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes... |
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Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History
Mark Bailey - Algonquin Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would... |
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Guide to the Getty Villa: Revised Edition
J. Paul Getty Museum - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Paperback
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This revised and updated edition of the Guide to the Getty Villa is published in conjunction with the reinstallation of the Villa collection galleries. It offers an engaging introduction to the Villa's history as well as an up-to-date look at its gardens, historical rooms, and galleries.... |
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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial
Stuart S Blume - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important tools in the public health arsenal, vaccines are to thank for the global eradication of smallpox, and for allowing us to defeat the dire threat of infectious disease for more than one hundred years. Vaccine development is where scientists turn when faced with the frightening... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide New Zealand
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover New Zealand with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - hike up mountains and glaciers, taste... |
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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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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true. The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag... |
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World
Derek Chollet - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama's foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from the political reality in which leaders face choices and make decisions. Here, consummate... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America’s founding principles,... |
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Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Jimmy Blackmon - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since... |
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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria
RANIA ABOUZEID - W. W. Norton & Company
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Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos... |
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American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States
Andrew Burt - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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This debut from Andrew Burt details the pivotal moments in American political history when outliers moved to the center, capturing the national spotlight and turning fringe politics mainstream. American Hysteria puts readers at the center of the nations most prominent periods of political... |
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Making Roots: A Nation Captivated
Matthew F Delmont - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery... |
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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
Roger Moorhouse - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflicts entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin... |
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Irish Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ireland
Dermot McEvoy - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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With Irish Miscellany, author Dermot McEvoy lets you revel in the fun and fascinating explanations behind Irish traditions and folklore. He offers the answers to questions you’ve always had—or never knew you had—as he covers all aspects of Ireland. From Irish culture to ancient... |
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland - Anchor; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous... |
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Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944
Robin Cross - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944.Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after "Overlord,"... |
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Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World
Mark Haskell Smith - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism," as it's called,... |
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Joshua Kurlantzick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of how Americas secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever... |
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The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
Karen M. Masterson - NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.American war planners,... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom - Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West
Jessie L Embry - The University of Arizona Press
Format: Paperback
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Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors - together these hard-working members of society contributed to the development of towns across the West. The essays in this volume show how oral history increases understanding of work and community... |
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The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
Steven R Weisman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The Chosen Wars tells the dramatic story of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries - the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion.The struggles... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
Srinath Raghavan - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and - something simply never imagined - against a Japanese army poised to invade... |
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Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
Nina Ansary - Revela Press
Format: Print book
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First Prize in the "Women's Issues" category of the 2016 International Book AwardsEric Hoffer Award - Winner of Da Vinci Eye for "Best Book Cover Design", Horizon Award for "Best Debut Author & Culture Book"Indie Book Awards - Finalist in "Historical... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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AP U.S. History 2017-2018
Krista Dornbush - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Print book
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The Advanced Placement test preparation guide that delivers 75 years of proven Kaplan experience and features exclusive strategies, practice, and review to help students ace the AP U.S. History exam! Students spend the school year preparing for the AP U.S. History test. Now it's time... |
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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
MARY HOLLINGSWORTH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political... |
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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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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The Early Shortwave Stations: A Broadcasting History Through 1945
Jerome S Berg - McFarland & Company
Format: Book
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In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range. It was an important event in a technological revolution that would make dependable... |
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Woodstock Live: 50 Years
Julien Bitoun - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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A complete chronological account of Woodstock, hour by hour, performance by performance. Released to coincide with its 50th anniversary and with a foreword by festival co-founder, Michael Lang. Foreword by Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang.3 days. 33 concerts. 2 deaths. 2 births. 500,000... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age
Paul G Bahn - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: eBook
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The Golden Age of Hollywood, dating to the hazy depths of the early 20th Century, was an era of movie stars worshipped by the masses and despotic studio moguls issuing decrees from poolside divans ... but despite the world-wide reach of the movie industry, little more than memories of that... |
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The 20th Century Legacy: The Explosion of Technology & Humanity's Struggle with Nature
Frank J Welch - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The 20th century was the most remarkable period in the history of human civilization. Packed within little more than one hundred years was the mapping of the universe from the interior of atoms to the ends of outer space. The nature of matter was defined. Science blossomed. Humans invented... |
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33 Artists in 3 Acts
Sarah Thornton - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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This compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.The best-selling author of Seven Days in the Art World now tells the story of the artists themselves -- how they move through the world, command... |
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Madeleine Albright - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Michael Bar-Zohar - Ecco, 2014.
Format: Print book
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"This book tells what should have been known and isn't - that Israel's hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength." - Israeli President Shimon Peres For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best... |
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Black flags : the rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION A Best Book of 2015 "The New York Times, " "The Washington Post, " "People" Magazine, "San Francisco Chronicle, " "Kansas City Star, " and "Kirkus Reviews" ""In... |
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Russell Edwards - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have emerged since 1888. This evidence is from one of the crime scenes, and has now been rigorously... |
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Mission Moon 3-D: A New Perspective on the Space Race
David J. Eicher - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.July 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11's epochal lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. This visually rich book... |
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Survivor Caf: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
ELIZABETH ROSNER - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"Survivor Caf takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
Leonardo Marques - Yale Univ Press
Format: Print book
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An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects... |
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
Benerson Little - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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For thousands of years, pirates have terrorized the ocean voyager and the coastal inhabitant, plundered ship and shore, and wrought havoc on the lives and livelihoods of rich and poor alike. Around these desperate men has grown a body of myths and legends - fascinating tales that today... |
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The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
Jane Hampton Cook - Regnery History
Format: Print book
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It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched through Washington, D.C. and set fire... |
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Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times
Simon Spalding - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Food at Sea Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times traces the preservation, preparation, and consumption of food at sea, over a period of several thousand years, and in a variety of cultures. The book traces the development of cooking aboard in ancient and medieval times, through... |
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked... |
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out -- with military precision -- an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly... |
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar - 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history - Harriet Tubman - a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.. Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most... |
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National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear
David Rothkopf - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In the wake of 911, America and its people have experienced a sense of vulnerability unprecedented in the nations recent history. Buffeted by challenges from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the financial crisis, from Washington dysfunction to the rise of China and the dawn of the era of cyber... |
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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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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
AndreÌs ReseÌndez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrs Resndez illuminates... |
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the deadIn a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Rory MacLean - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love.... |
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Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
Jake Brennan - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know... |
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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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A Black Women's History of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American... |
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer - Bloomsbury Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwells army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers... |
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F Worth - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker... |
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Jürgen Osterhammel - Princeton University Press; Translated by Patrick Camiller. edition
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jrgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological... |
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Green Fairy Book
Andrew Lang - Hesperides Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them
Chris DeRose - Lyons Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s... |
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Empire: A New History of the World
Paul Strathern - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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Exploring Glasgow: An Architectural and Historical Guide
ROBIN WARD - Birlinn Ltd
Format: Paperback
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Glasgow is one of the most architecturally exciting cities in the world, boasting a huge variety of building styles. There are grand Victorian public buildings celebrating civic progress and pride, commercial palazzi glorifying trade and industry, glittering art galleries, a Gothic Revival... |
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
DEREK K WILSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and multi-faceted history of heroes and villains interwoven with the profound changes in human knowledge that took place between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of WWII
Philip Handleman - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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Only 14 of the approximately 1,000 Tuskegee Airmen-the famed black aviators who fought in World War II-are still living today. This is the remarkable first-person account of one of those 14 men, Lt. Colonel Harry T. Stewart, Jr, who flew 43 combat missions in Italy - including one legendary... |
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The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Donald R Kirsch - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered... |
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The Complete Book of US Presidents
Bill Yenne - Zenith Press
Format: Print book
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In this momentous election year, experience the history and personal stories of all 44 U.S. Presidents in this beautifully illustrated edition.From the first president, George Washington, to the most recent, Barack Obama, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office.... |
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
William Geroux - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy... |
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
John Mack Faragher - W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"John Mack Faragher is one fine writer, bringing early L.A. to life as the setting for all manner of horrific killings and gruesome justice. Eternity Street will keep you up at night ruminating on the roots of American violence." -- Richard Wightman Fox, University of Southern... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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