History:

Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest

Format: eBook, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95

From the Introduction
In the end, then, the Vietnam War was a conflict of myriad complexities. It was a colonial war and a regional war. It was a total war and a limited war. It was a civil war, an insurgency and a conventional war - and indeed it varied from... Read more >

Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest

Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95

From the Colonial War with France in the 1940s and 50s, through to the final evacuation of Saigon and beyond, each chapter of Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, focuses on a different aspect of the Vietnam War. The 15 chapters are written by a diverse set... Read more >

Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...

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Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...

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The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $8.99

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place... Read more >

Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $16.00

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to... Read more >

This Living Hand
And Other Essays
Written by Edmund Morris

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $32.00

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They... Read more >

This Living Hand
And Other Essays
Written by Edmund Morris

Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $15.99

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They... Read more >

This Living Hand
And Other Essays
Written by Edmund Morris
Read by Edmund Morris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $27.50

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They... Read more >

Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Written by Murray Kempton
Introduction by David Remnick

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $16.95

Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with... Read more >

Progressive Historians

Written by Richard Hofstadter

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2012
Price: $15.99

Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century:  Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the... Read more >

Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $28.00

A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >

Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $9.99

A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >

The Trumpet of Conscience

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.00

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Immediately released under the title Conscience for Change after King’s assassination, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience. Each oration speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues...

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The Trumpet of Conscience

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $22.00

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience....

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The Trumpet of Conscience

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $22.00

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience....

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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare

Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.99

“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >

The Anti-War Quote Book

Edited by Eric Groves, Sr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2008
Price: $14.95

For more than four thousand years, the world’s most influential philosophers, educators, politicians, scientists, artists, clergy, and soldiers have argued against war.
 
     •  There never was a good war or a bad peace.—Benjamin Franklin
     •  All wars are popular for the first thirty days.—Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
     • ... Read more >

I Wish I'd Been There
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
Written by Byron Hollinshead

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $15.95

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 >

I Wish I'd Been There

Written by Byron Hollinshead

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $11.99

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 >

The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2006
Price: $14.95

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place... Read more >

The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall

Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2005
Price: $19.00

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place... Read more >

Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Written by Murray Kempton
Introduction by David Remnick

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2004
Price: $16.95

Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with... Read more >