Daniel: 11127 books
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
The Return
Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling...
An Impatient Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensaïd was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France’s leading...
The Lufthansa Heist
Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The inside story—from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked...
by Daniel Sterner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields and abundant crops at the confluence of the Connecticut and Little (later Park) Rivers by Reverend Thomas Hooker and his Puritan congregation. Navigation on the rivers quickly established the city as a center for commerce....
Homage to Caledonia
Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, 'Homage to Caledonia' examines Scotland's role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so profound. The book moves chronologically through events...
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...
Supersurvivors
The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.
Over four billion people worldwide will survive...
Hollywood's Chosen People
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling...
The War Within
From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century...
Unser Kampf
Poems of the Final Solution
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
While Mein Kampf is about Adolf Hitler's struggle, Unser Kampf focuses on the victims' efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust — the genuine struggle survivors face, as they fight to understand what it means to have outlasted the Shoah , and the struggle endured by those who didn't live through...
by Daniel Gibson, Kitty Leaken
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Kevin Red Star is not only one of the most acclaimed Native American artists, but he is also a visual historian of his people, the Crow. His art celebrates, commemorates, and perpetuates the Crow culture.
Gibson and Leaken showcase the talents of Red Star in this collection of artwork while...
Nightfall Over Shanghai
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Passion, espionage, and battlefield drama: the loves and fears of one remarkable family unfold against the Second World War's Pacific theatre in Daniel Kalla's Nightfall Over Shanghai.
It's 1944 and the Japanese are losing the war, but Shanghai is more dangerous than ever, particularly for...
by Daniel Menaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“At the epicenter of literary New York, Menaker is an irreverent guide to the publishing world’s inner workings . . . His own journey, compelled by his self-knowledge and sense of humor, elevates this memoir into more than witty chatter.”...