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Heart of Europe:The Past in Poland's Present
The Past in Poland's Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term...
The Wolf
How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
On November 30, 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land again for another fifteen months. It was the beginning of an astounding 64,000-mile voyage that was to take the ship around the world, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation in her...
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**Winner of the Lincoln Prize
A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.**
At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world,...
Fall and Rise
The Story of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall...
China 1945
Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing...
After Elizabeth
The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor.
December 1602....
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 19141945
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative...
A World in Disarray
American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
**"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading." —The New York Times
An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States...
The Rising Sun
The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
“[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic...
by Andrea Wulf
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the men who made Britain teh center of the botanical world.
Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden...
Faberge's Eggs
The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.
The Easter presents...
by Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin’s Ghost.
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry...
The Wizard and the Prophet
Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first...
The Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world.
We live in a world transformed...