Henry Holt And Co : 2157 books
Fighting Fire!
Ten of the Deadliest Fires in American History and How We Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From colonial times to the modern day, two things have remained constant in American history: the destructive power of fires and the bravery of those who fight them.
Fighting Fire! brings to life ten of the deadliest infernos this nation has ever endured: the great fires of Boston, New York,...
Privileged Hands
A Scientific Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1996
His fingers move across the surface of a shell, feeling the ridges and contours, searching for clues, gathering information unnoticed by the untrained eye. For Dr. Geerat Vermeij's fingers are his eyes. One of the most accomplished evolutionary biologists of our time and the world's leading authority...
by David Riggs
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he lived
Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized English drama and poetry, transforming the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity. The outline of Marlowe's...
The Shadow and Bone Trilogy
Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In a lavish world where darkness reigns and science collides with superstition, Alina Starkov has the power to save her country…but it comes with a price in The Grisha Trilogy by New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.
Included in this bundle are Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising.
Poisoner in Chief
Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the...
One Man Against the World
The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner
Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin...
Uncertain Justice
The Roberts Court and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
With the Supreme Court more influential than ever, this eye-opening book tells the story of how the Roberts Court is shaking the foundation of our nation's laws
From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts...
Sir Walter Raleigh
Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world
Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked...
The Great Reformer
Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religions
An expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith and...
Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject
Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money...
Voyage of the Turtle
In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
Conversations with RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, though an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.
Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
I Am a Pencil
A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive
A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted"...