1491 (Second Edition)
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: 10/10/2006
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
In the last twenty years, archeologists and anthropologists equipped with a battery of new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries that have completely changed their understanding...Read more >
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: 10/10/2006
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3205-1
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
In the last twenty years, archeologists and anthropologists equipped with a battery of new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries that have completely changed their understanding...
A Savage War of Peace
Algeria 1954-1962
Alistair Horne
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: 10/10/2006
Price: $19.95
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 978-1-59017-218-6
Although war was never formally declared, the Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused six French governments to fall, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, brought De Gaulle back to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim...Read more >
Algeria 1954-1962
Alistair Horne
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: 10/10/2006
Price: $19.95
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 978-1-59017-218-6
Although war was never formally declared, the Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused six French governments to fall, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, brought De Gaulle back to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim...
Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: 05/03/2005
Price: $14.99
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8311-4
A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007
On December 1, 2006, Timothy B. Tyson received the Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007 from officials at the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tyson is the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, his...Read more >
A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: 05/03/2005
Price: $14.99
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8311-4
A 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner, Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007
On December 1, 2006, Timothy B. Tyson received the Grawemeyer Award for Religion 2007 from officials at the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tyson is the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, his...
Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: 02/22/1999
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-75833-4
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again, this time from...Read more >
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: 02/22/1999
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-75833-4
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again, this time from...
Descartes' Bones
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Russell Shorto
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: 08/25/2009
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-27566-0
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes’ bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters.
But as Russell Shorto shows...Read more >
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Russell Shorto
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: 08/25/2009
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-27566-0
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes’ bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters.
But as Russell Shorto shows...
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: 03/22/2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-609-80964-8
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or...Read more >
Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: 03/22/2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-609-80964-8
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or...
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: 09/24/2002
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-609-80999-0
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the...Read more >
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: 09/24/2002
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-609-80999-0
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the...
I Wish I'd Been There
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
Byron Hollinshead
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: 09/04/2007
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9654-1
I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians’ responses to the question “What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history’s...Read more >
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
Byron Hollinshead
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: 09/04/2007
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9654-1
I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians’ responses to the question “What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history’s...
The Mercury 13
The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Martha Ackmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: 07/13/2004
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-375-75893-5
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by...Read more >
The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Martha Ackmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: 07/13/2004
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-375-75893-5
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by...
The Protest Singer
An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
Alec Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: 06/08/2010
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-39098-1
A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger, and his life and his accomplishments.
Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look...Read more >
An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
Alec Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: 06/08/2010
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-39098-1
A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger, and his life and his accomplishments.
Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look...
The Woman Behind the New Deal
The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,
Kirstin Downey
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: 02/23/2010
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7856-1
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country’s social safety network.
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet...Read more >
The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,
Kirstin Downey
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: 02/23/2010
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7856-1
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country’s social safety network.
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet...
Thurgood Marshall
American Revolutionary
Juan Williams, bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize
Format: Trade Paperback, 504 pages
On Sale: 02/01/2000
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-8129-3299-7
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the acclaimed author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice. Thurgood Marshall stands today as the great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision...Read more >
American Revolutionary
Juan Williams, bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize
Format: Trade Paperback, 504 pages
On Sale: 02/01/2000
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-8129-3299-7
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the acclaimed author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice. Thurgood Marshall stands today as the great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision...
