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by Judith Mackrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The story of Venice’s “Unfinished Palazzo”— told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate, and fascinating residents: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth...
Jet Set
The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international...
The Family
A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family
In tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin...
Ecce Homo
How To Become What You Are
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written...
Where War Lives
A Journey into the Heart of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes us on a personal and historic journey from Mogadishu through Rwanda to Afghanistan and Iraq.
With the click of a shutter the world came to know Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland Jr. as a desecrated corpse. In the split-second that Paul Watson had...
Inventing Japan
1853-1964
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his...
Flight 93
The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but there’s so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax. Amazingly, the definitive...
Secret Agent 666
Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has...
by Robert V. Remini
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Robert V. Remini's prize-winning, three-volume biography Life of Andrew Jackson won the National Book Award on its completion in 1984 and is recognized as one of the greatest lives of a U.S. President. In this meticulously crafted single-volume abridgment, Remini captures the essence of the life and...
by Pamela Horn
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1931 domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. However, it was seen as the perfect...
Our Times
The Age of Elizabeth II
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would occur over the next fifty years, both in Britain and around the world.
In Our Times, A. N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating...
Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century
A National Newspaper Study of England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each others’ interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the press and wider...
Irish Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
With Irish Miscellany, author Dermot McEvoy lets you revel in the fun and fascinating explanations behind Irish traditions and folklore. He offers the answers to questions you’ve always had-or never knew you had-as he covers all aspects of Ireland. From Irish culture to ancient history to modern...
by Will Englund
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“Fast-paced history . . . full of haunting, unforgettable wartime images.” —David M. Shribman, Boston Globe
March 1917 is a riveting history of the month that transformed the world’s greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. Drawing on a wealth of...