Simon Schuster: 4797 books
The Geography of Genius
A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this...
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures...
The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.
This monumental book is the...
Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner...
Anatomy of a Genocide
The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
“A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence” (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town...
All Hands Down
The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years. What really happened to the USS Scorpion?
May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode...
All the Single Ladies
Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
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The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is “an informative and thought-provoking...
by Bob Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
See how and why Washington is not functioning in Bob Woodward’s freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his national bestseller, The Price of Politics, which provides a detailed, often verbatim account of what happened in the dramatic “fiscal cliff” face-off at the end of 2012 between...
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson...
by Richard Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
The Longest Day
The Classic Epic of D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II -- now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the classic story of the invasion of Normandy, and a book that endures as a masterpiece of living...
by Kim MacQuarrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador...
Red Star Rogue
The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last.
Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests...
by C. J. Chivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact automatic...