What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Robert D. Kaplan Michael Prichard
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
A. J. Langguth Grover Gardner
This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this second and final war of independence that established the young nation as a permanent power. Full of fascinating characters, A. J. Langguth's riveting account covers a vast panorama of battles, from the American sacking of Toronto and the British burning of the White House and the Capitol, to the thrilling war at sea and on the Great Lakes and the final spectacular American victory at New Orleans.
From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte comes this stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World—from the seventeenth century to the present.
Erich von Daniken's world-famous bestseller Chariots of the Gods introduces the shocking theory—and the archaeological evidence to prove it—that ancient Earth was visited by aliens.
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Stephen Budiansky John Lee
From Stephen Budiansky comes the exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed a new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines.
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known.
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Melba Pattillo Beals Lisa Reneé Pitts
Drawn from personal diaries, Warriors Don't Cry is the riveting true story of Melba Beals's experience as one of the first nine black teenagers chosen to integrate the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.
Do you wish you understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dry, technical books? In What Einstein Told His Cook, University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor emeritus Robert L. Wolke provides reliable and witty explanations for your most burning food questions.
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Thomas Hager Stephen Hoye
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization: The West and the Rest is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance—and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible.
From "Britain's finest military historian" (the Economist) comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat.
Author Tom Standage details the history of the world, from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century, through the lens of six defining beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? Author and former Navy SEAL Dick Couch takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world and documents the process that transforms young men into warriors.
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred Kaplan Kevin Foley
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Fred Kaplan presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars who changed
the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights
wars, despite fierce resistance from within their own ranks.
In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz reveals herself to be the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those who plan to visit—or have visited—the Nile Valley.
In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.
The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Roger Crowley John Lee
Set during the height of the Ottoman Empire and with Christendom weakened and vulnerable, this is the story of the fifty-year battle for domination of the Mediterranean, centered around the titanic battles of Rhodes, Malta, and Lepanto—three of the most dramatic and decisive battles in world history.
