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Affluence Without Abundance
The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
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Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room,...
Passwords to Paradise
How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters,...
by Jeffrey Lent
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
For fans of The Orchardist and The Cove and from the author of bestselling In the Fall, an epic historical novel that fearlessly addresses the largest questions of love, justice, and how to live.
"Wonderfully entertaining, deeply moving, beautifully written . . . In my estimation, Jeffrey...
The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.
From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of...
Revolutions in Communication
Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates...
The Book of William
How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The first complete collection of Shakespeare's plays was almost never printed. Only the machinations of several wealthy donors and publishers brought it into existence, and even then it was practically unnoticed. Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn...
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with...
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York TimesBestseller
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the Civil War to our combustible present,...
Deadly Spin
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information...
Typhoid Mary
An Urban Historical
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential comes the true, thrilling story of Mary Mallon, otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary.
This is a tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century. By the late...
Paris
The Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast,...