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This New Ocean
The Story of the First Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.
The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and...
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly).
National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of...
Why We Build
Power and Desire in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.
We are living in the most dramatic...
The Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago...
Georgian Gothic
Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as...
The Museums of Contemporary Art
Notion and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented....
Bellow
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression,...
Disraeli
The Novel Politician
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Lauded as a “great Jew,” excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain’s most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking,...
Bismarck:A Life
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes...
Churchill
Wanted Dead or Alive
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His Granddaughter
In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather’s adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the...
1917
Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
**This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. **
In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for...
Americana
A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
**An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST**
From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life....
Age of Anger
A History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid...