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Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Frederick Douglass - Akashic Books
Format: Print book
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"A fascinating collection of Frederick Douglass's controversial speeches in Brooklyn, N.Y., this volume compiles original source material that illustrates the relationship between the abolitionist and the then city of Brooklyn."--Publishers Weekly, Fall 2016 Announcements"A... |
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Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Life Behind the Luxury
Estella M. Chung - GILES
Format: Hardcover
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Marjorie Merriweather Post led an extraordinary three-estate lifestyle detailed in the book Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post. Now, in The Life Behind the Luxury, Chung adds an array of delightful details, including the "Travel Luxe" chapter of journeys... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Historic Illinois: A Tour of the State's Top National Landmarks
Susan O'Connor Davis - Globe Pequot
Format: Paperback
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Historic Illinois: A Tour of the State's Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color... |
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
Nandini Das - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.. Traditional interpretations of the British Empire's emerging success and expansion have long overshadowed the deep... |
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald Drabkin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland - a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars - who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up... |
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The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
Vincent M. Figueredo - ?Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart -- not the brain -- was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart... |
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The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told
Tom McCarthy - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback
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Heroism and valor in the sky! * A new title in the relaunch of our successful Greatest Stories Ever Told franchise.* Air combat has captured the imaginations of people since the fighter plane was first introduced during WWI. * Stories of aces such as Eddy Rickenbacker and Captain Baron... |
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Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography
Michele Alacevich - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, took part in antifascist activities in Italy, and organized an underground rescue operation... |
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