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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

9 best books like Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse (Lawrence Scott Sheets): Our Man in Havana, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail, The Immortals, The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Our Man in Havana
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0140184937
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
AuthorGeorge Packer
ISBN1466836954
A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending...
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
AuthorEric Jay Dolin
ISBN0871404338
Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire....
The Immortals
AuthorJordanna Max Brodsky
ISBN0316347183
MANHATTAN HAS MANY SECRETS.
SOME ARE OLDER THAN THE CITY ITSELF.

Manhattan.
The city sleeps. Selene DiSilva walks her dog along the banks of the Hudson. She is alone-just the way she likes it. She doesn't believe in friends, and she doesn't speak to her family. Most of them are simply...
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
AuthorRoger Friedland
ISBN0060393882
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius, but as a subject of controversy -- from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including the notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. Yet, as this landmark...
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
AuthorDan Egan
ISBN0393355551
The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the...
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
AuthorMark Schatzker
ISBN1476724210
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.

In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
AuthorKate Harris
ISBN0345816781
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION

"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."

As a teenager,...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
AuthorCandice Millard
ISBN0804194890
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War

At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
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