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A History of African Popular Culture
Karin Barber - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from... |
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Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death
Betina Anton - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Unearthing the network that hid the "Angel of Death," the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more that three decades. In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kindergarten teacher for allegedly using false documents to bury in secrecy the remains... |
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Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
Max Brooks - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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The most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the Star Wars saga has as much to say about successful strategies and real-life warfare waged in our own time and place.... |
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Mary Beard - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book -- against a background of today's "sculpture wars" -- Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits... |
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A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona
Richard Grant - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America's most divisive issues: Arizona. When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where... |
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors
James Patterson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Discover "the stories America needs to hear" (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.) ) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them.Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews... |
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Art Firsts: The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works (-)
Nick Trend - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Flexibound
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The story of art is not always the story of art-historical 'isms' and complex academic debate. The real history is often the story of some very simple firsts - the first time an artist painted themselves, the first time someone painted a smile, the first actual place to be depicted,... |
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