|
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
David Rooney - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
|
|
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
Alex Mar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Alex Mar's bold yet sensitive account of one of America's youngest death row inmates - and the people whose lives she forever changed - is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable." - Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road"An... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Robert Harms - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
