Exhibiting Dilemmas
Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian
Written by Amy Henderson

Format: Trade Paperback, 292 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 1999
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-444-3 (1-56098-444-9)

In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth lunch counter that became a symbol of the Civil Rights movement, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political, and ethical questions faced by museum... Read more >

How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Written by Arthur Herman

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-80999-0 (0-609-80999-7)

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 Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88525-8 (0-307-88525-9)

TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.

Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.

A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an airport shuttle-bus driver... Read more >

A Short History of Nuclear Folly

Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-173-7 (1-61219-173-8)

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe. Rudolph Herzog presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely... Read more >

The Age of Capital
1848-1875
Written by Eric Hobsbawm

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77254-5 (0-679-77254-5)

Hobsbawm penetratingly and authoritatively analyzes the rise of industrial capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. The Age of Capital, the second volume in Hobsbawm's four-volume world history, is a history not only of Europe, but of the world, encompassing the extension of capitalist economy to the four corners of the... Read more >

Age of Empire: 1875-1914

Written by Eric Hobsbawm

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72175-8 (0-679-72175-4)

In The Age of Empire, the third in Hobsbawm's four-volume world history, he examines the crucial years that formed the modern world. It is the story of the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilization... Read more >

The Age of Extremes
A History of the World, 1914-1991
Written by Eric Hobsbawm

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73005-7 (0-679-73005-2)

The Age of Extremes, the fourth and final volume in Hobsbawm's astounding history of the world, is a brilliant chronicle of the events that have given shape to the twentieth century. The book is divided into three parts: "The Age of Catastrophe 1914-1950," "The Golden Age 1950-1973," and "The Landslide 1973-1991."  In... Read more >

The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848

Written by Eric Hobsbawm

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77253-8 (0-679-77253-7)

Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. In The Age of Revolution, the first of his four volume world history, Hobsbawm traces with characteristic analytical clarity the changes brought about in every sphere of European life... Read more >

The Forge of Christendom
The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
Written by Tom Holland

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27870-8 (0-307-27870-0)

At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe... Read more >

Persian Fire
The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Written by Tom Holland

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27948-4 (0-307-27948-0)

In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece.

The... Read more >

Conquer or Die!
Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World
Written by Ben Hughes

Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-183-2 (1-84908-183-2)

In 1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, when one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with the loss of... Read more >

They Shall Not Pass
The British Battalion at Jarama - The Spanish Civil War
Written by Ben Hughes

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-549-6 (1-84908-549-8)

In 1937 a group of idealistic British volunteers sailed from England to fight the dark threat of dictatorship in Spain. In the olive groves of Jarama they achieved the first victory against Franco’s army. It was Fascism’s first defeat. Hardly remembered today, it was possibly the crucial military turning point of... Read more >

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Written by Conn Iggulden

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33951-3 (0-385-33951-8)

"...[B]rilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction....Building on the fragment of Genghis's life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and 'unforgiving land' and the enigmatic young man—charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable of 'utter ruthlessness'—who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order."—Publishers Weekly, starred... Read more >

Tun-huang

Written by Yasushi Inoue
Preface by Damion Searls
Translated by Jean Oda Moy

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-362-6 (1-59017-362-7)

Tun-Huang, in Central Asia, is a walled city along the Silk Road that historically connected China to the West. It is also the site of the Thousand Buddha cave where, in the early 1900s, Sir Aurel Stein discovered an extraordinary treasure trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures. In Tun-Huang... Read more >

National Geographic 125 Years
Legendary Photographs, Adventures, and Discoveries That Changed the World
Written by Mark Collins Jenkins

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0957-4 (1-4262-0957-6)

Featuring show-stopping imagery and thrilling behind-the-scenes tales, National Geographic 125 Years captures the heart of National Geographic’s history, from its earliest days as a scientific club to its growth into one of the world’s largest geographic organizations. The book reveals how much is known about the world through the pages and... Read more >

Knight
The Warrior and World of Chivalry
Written by Robert Jones

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-312-6 (1-84908-312-6)

From a life-long student of the medieval long sword and medieval history comes a comprehensive overview of the Age of the Knights. Jones shows that behind the popular image of the knight in shining armor lies a world that is both more complex and more fascinating. Were knights glory-seeking, bloodthirsty thugs... Read more >

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Written by Fauziya Kassindja

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31994-2 (0-385-31994-0)

In 1994, Fauziya Kassindja, an extraordinary teenager from a wealthy, prominent family in Kpalime, Africa, fled from her home to escape tribal ritual female genital mutilation. She sought political asylum in the United States, but was instead incarcerated for 16 months in various Immigration and Naturalization Service detention facilities. Housed in... Read more >

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

Written by Paul Kennedy

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74705-5 (0-679-74705-2)

Kennedy's classic The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers considered the forces within nations that led to their rise and fall.  In Preparing for the Twenty-first Century he addresses a larger and uniquely modern question:  how will transnational forces in a world of scarce resources, instant communications, and exploding population affect the... Read more >

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Written by Paul Kennedy

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1989
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72019-5 (0-679-72019-7)

In this magisterial work Kennedy "presents a clearly defined and closely reasoned thesis explaining the subject matter of the title--why nations rise and fall, and why the process is still continuing" (The New York Times Book Review).

"Important, learned, and lucid...Kennedy's great achievement is that he makes us see our current international... Read more >

The Liberator
One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Written by Alex Kershaw

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88799-3 (0-307-88799-5)

Forthcoming October 30, 2012. Professors: To request a complimentary advance reader's copy, email RHAcademic@randomhouse.com (Limited Supply Available)
The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over... Read more >

Wine and War
The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Written by Donald Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0448-3 (0-7679-0448-6)

When France fell to the Nazis, almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Wine and War tells the harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles... Read more >

Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland
Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization Volume 2: Urban and Rural Archaeology
Written by Alan L. Kolata

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: January 17, 2003
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-054-2 (1-58834-054-6)

The book presents, for the first time, a rich body of empirical data on the chronology of the Tiwanaku state; the nature of the social and political relationships between the city and its hinterland; the form and meaning of its monumental and elite architecture; and the texture of everyday life in... Read more >

The City
A Global History
Written by Joel Kotkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75651-1 (0-375-75651-5)

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over... Read more >

Yiddish Civilisation
The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
Written by Paul Kriwaczek

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3377-5 (1-4000-3377-2)

Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world. By its... Read more >

The First Clash
The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization
Written by Jim Lacey

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38575-5 (0-553-38575-5)

“A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier’s eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity.”—Barry Strauss, author of Masters of Command

Marathon—one of history’s most pivotal battles. Its name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. In this eye-opening book... Read more >