Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister...
Jung ChangThey were the most famous women in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an ind...
The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale ...
Isobel CharmanSet in the heart of swirling, Dickensian London, the wondrous history of a unique institution and the incredible characters―human and animal―that populated it. The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping au...
A Narrative Of The Transactions, Impr...
John ConnollyA Narrative Of The Transactions, Imprisonment, And Sufferings Of John Connolloy, An American Loyalist, And Lieutenant-Colonel In His Majesty'S Service. In Which Are Shewn, The Unjustifiable Proceedings Of Congress, In His Treatment An...
Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in t...
Carol DyhouseSince the suffrage movement, young women's actions have been analyzed and decried exhaustively by mass media. Each new bad behavior—bobbing one's hair, protesting politics, drinking, swearing, or twerking, among other things—is he...
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unifica...
Gabriele EspositoIn the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression'--not a country, but a patchwork of states. The north (Savoy/Piedmont, and Venice ) was ruled by Austria-Hungary, and most of the minor central states were more or les...
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unifica...
Gabriele EspositoIn the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers suc...
Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879...
Gabriele EspositoThe Pacific War was the climax of the decades-long Wars of Liberation, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. After winning their independence from Spain in 1825, Peru and Bolivia became separate nations...
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live: ...
Steven M. GillonSteve Gillon follows Lee Harvey Oswald for the 48 hours after the Kennedy assassination in search of answers to the question that has been troubling America for the past five decades: Why did he shoot JFK? The Warren Commission specul...
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twen...
Jonathan GloverRenowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and...
The Odd Fellows' Primer is a work cut from the same cloth as the great 19th century manuals written by luminaries such as Rev. Aaron Grosh and Paschal Donaldson, designed to give the initiate everything they need to practice and live ...
Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trum...
Olear GregTrump/Russia is the greatest political scandal in American history. It's also the most complex. In this remarkable and necessary work, novelist Greg Olear weaves the loose threads of Trump/Russia into a short, easy-to-follow narrative...
Dutch Armies of the 80 Years’ War 1...
Bouko De GrootThroughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the Americas and the Pacific, and held considerable territories in Europe, centering on the so-called ...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER• InSapiens,he explored our past. In Homo Deus,he looked to our future.Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issue...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues."...
The Great Escape That Changed Africa'...
Charles HarperThis is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape, in June of 1961, of sixty African students from Portugal across Spain and into France. Most were Angolan intellectuals. Some were from Mozambique and others from Guinea-Bissau, the...
Washington's Circle: The Creation of ...
David S. HeidlerGeorge Washington was a singular, often aloof man who sought out the counsel of a few, trusted men to help him share his task of governing a new nation. In Washington's Circle, David and Jeanne Heidler introduce not just the president...
In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubi...
The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of F...
Gord HillThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic...
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of th...
David E. HoffmanWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines th...
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
Slavoj I. EkCall it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive ...
1913: The Year Before the Storm
Florian IlliesAn International Bestseller"An absolute gem of a book." —The ObserverJust before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year . . .It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in h...
Imperial Chinese Armies 1840-1911 (Me...
Philip JowettAn in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century, this history begins with a run-through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opi...
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] An unprecedented and original history of intellectual life throughout the past century.Thinking the Twentieth Century is the final book of unparalleled historian and indomitable public critic T...
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Lif...
Julie KavanaghThis riveting biography brilliantly explores the short, intense, and passionate life of the country girl from Normandy, who at thirteen fled her brute of a father to go to Paris. Almost overnight she became one of the most admired cou...
The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What...
Harvey J. KayeThe fascinating story of Franklin Roosevelt, the Greatest Generation, and the freedoms they won, is a "stirring, heady dose of American history by a…progressive thinker" (Kirkus Reviews).On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Ge...
The Cold War: A New Oral History
Bridget KendallIn this meticulously researched account, Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. Alongside in-depth analysis that explains the historical and political context, the book draws on ...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagog...
James KirchickThe disintegration of Europe’s post–Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression
A Night to Remember: The Classic Acco...
Walter LordShe was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titan...
When Globalization Fails: The Rise an...
James MacDonaldIS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR? Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonald's When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century—and a cautionary...
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Stor...
Ben MacIntyreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spiri...