Abrams: 1969 books
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...
Obsolete
An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
A cultural catalog of everyday things rapidly turning into rarities—from landlines to laugh tracks.
So many things have disappeared from our day-to-day world, or are on the verge of vanishing. Some we may already think of as ancient relics, like typewriters (and their accompanying bottles...
by Tim Flach, Jonathan Baillie
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ranging from forest to savannah to the polar seas to the great...
HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship)
How to Turn Your Booty Call into Your Emergency Contact
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Who better to write a very humorous manual about evolving modern relationships than two CollegeHumor veterans and viral-video stars who happen to be a real-life husband-and-wife team? With candor, bite, and charm, HEY, U UP? takes readers on an eight-chapter journey through the trials of hooking up...
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...
by Ilana Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Ilana Wiles is not a good mother. She’s not a bad mother either. Like most of us, she’s normal. From the creator of the wildly popular blog Mommy Shorts comes Ilana Wiles’s first humor book on remarkably average parenting. If you want solid advice about raising kids, this book is not for you....
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...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and ’40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Regardless, she went...