Review imprint: 1779 books
One Day in December
Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement...
The World That Made New Orleans
From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans’ first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural,...
Hiding in Plain Sight
Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.
by Pauline Gedge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In The Twelfth Transforming, bestselling author Pauline Gedge returns to ancient Egypt to reveal the mysterious reign of Akhenaten, the impetuous pharaoh who threatened to ruin his country. The dramatic story of Akhenaten's disastrous ruling is also the tale of Empress Tiye, a mother struggling to...
Special Agent Man
My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a career in the Federal...
First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
Last Chance for Justice
How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Revealing the story of the reopening of the case of the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing of 1963, this insider’s account divulges the ins and outs of the investigation led by detective Ben Herren of the Birmingham Police Department and special agent Bill Fleming of the FBI. For more than a year,...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party...
Journey to Chernobyl
Encounters in a Radioactive Zone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people...
Deadly Valentines
The Story of Capone's Henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
“An engrossing look inside Al Capone’s murderous ranks.” –Kirkus Almost before the gunsmoke from the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn. They just couldn’t find him. But two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour,...
Klandestine
How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
James Earl Ray, an escaped convict from Missouri, was punished for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. despite the fact that he did not fit the caricature of a hangdog racist thirsty for blood. The media has often portrayed him as hapless and apolitical, someone who must have been paid by...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...
Frederick Douglass
Selected Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life-from the abolition of slavery to women’s rights, from the Civil...
Freedom's Journey
African American Voices of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from...