Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Sv... Read More
Overview :What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon, the man who cracked historys most controversial code? When Langdon ... Read More
Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided th... Read More
Overview :"Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."--Terry Eagleton, The Na... Read More
Overview :Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of "debt" -- a timely subject during our curr... Read More
Overview :Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bin... Read More
Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the... Read More
Overview :In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected fro... Read More
Overview :Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of ... Read More
Overview :What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disast... Read More
Overview :It seems Jung is usually seen as an idol or is condemned for his failings. Ronald Hayman neither ignores Jung's faults nor exaggerates them.... Read More
Overview :How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, by food and social historian Jennifer Wallach, sheds a new and interesting ligh... Read More
Overview :An entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England--the latest in the Time Traveler's Guide series Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer sh... Read More
Overview :University Press returns with another short and captivating book - a brief history of caste, bias, and discrimination.We have inherited a wo... Read More
Overview :A "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourse... Read More
Overview :Blending personal history and social commentary, "Made Love, Got War" documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media s a... Read More
Overview :In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era... Read More
Overview :The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digit... Read More