— Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 10 Titles found
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Gulag
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2004
Price: $18.00
Pulitzer Prize-winner, Non-Fiction 2004
National Book Critics Circle Nominee, Non-Fiction
National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction 2003
Winnner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2003
The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.
The Gulag entered the world’s historical... Read more >
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2004
Price: $18.00
Pulitzer Prize-winner, Non-Fiction 2004
National Book Critics Circle Nominee, Non-Fiction
National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction 2003
Winnner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2003
The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.
The Gulag entered the world’s historical... Read more >
Gulag
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $35.00
WINNER, THE 2004 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
**National Book Critics Circle Nominee, Non-Fiction
**2003 National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction
Paperback Available, August 2004
"Gulag is lucid and well-researched, and its moral message is clear without being obtrusive. It should become the standard history of one of the greatest evils of the 20th century." —The... Read more >
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $35.00
WINNER, THE 2004 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
**National Book Critics Circle Nominee, Non-Fiction
**2003 National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction
Paperback Available, August 2004
"Gulag is lucid and well-researched, and its moral message is clear without being obtrusive. It should become the standard history of one of the greatest evils of the 20th century." —The... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Pushkin
A Biography
Written by T.J. Binyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $20.00
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry—including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin—but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career... Read more >
A Biography
Written by T.J. Binyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $20.00
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry—including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin—but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career... Read more >
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the... Read more >
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the... Read more >
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $25.95
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off... Read more >
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $25.95
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Written by David Grann
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $27.50
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy... Read more >
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Written by David Grann
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $27.50
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy... Read more >
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The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
Winner of the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover... Read more >
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
Winner of the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $18.00
• Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
• Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
• Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time... Read more >
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $18.00
• Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
• Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
• Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time... Read more >
Also available as an
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Istanbul
Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red.
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a... Read more >
Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red.
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a... Read more >
The Orientalist
Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Written by Tom Reiss
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and... Read more >
Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Written by Tom Reiss
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and... Read more >
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