Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
Washington Journal
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Re-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal...
Traitor to the Crown
The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
“The meticulousness of the Longs’ research is awesome” in this historical account of the plot to brand a British naval official as a Catholic traitor (The Guardian).
1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from...
Night & Horses & The Desert
An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of Arabic poetry and prose in translation, from...
Cemetery John
The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in the field. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--a remarkably evolved society whose warrior...
Bitter Waters
America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
“An intriguing, thorough study of a little-known scientific expedition to the Dead Sea by a mid-19th-century U.S. Navy lieutenant” (Kirkus Reviews).
With customary depth and insight, David Haward Bain illumines the United States’s nineteenth-century exploration of the Holy Land. To lead...
A Dog's History of America
How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this revelatory history, Mark Derr looks at the ways in which we have used canines—as sled dogs and sheepdogs, hounds and Seeing Eye dogs, guard dogs, show dogs, and bomb-sniffing dogs—as he tracks changes in American culture and society. In A Dog’s History of America, Derr weaves a remarkable...
At the Edge of Uncertainty
11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science—and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven’t stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Michael Brooks investigates the new...
Engineers of the Soul
The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Frank Westerman draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as "engineers of the soul," were encouraged to sing the praises of canal and dam construction under titles such...
Smogtown
The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's...
Falconry Basics
A Handbook for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In this fully revised edition of his classic guide to falconry for beginners, lifelong falconer Tony Hall presents the most comprehensive information available to newcomers to the sport. Falconry Basics is specifically designed for novices and covers the basics, from different types of birds and their...
Elemental
How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements—nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson—we at last could identify all the ingredients...
What the Luck?
The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third...
Before Galileo
The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, physicist and historian...