Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316608173 |
Put your tongue forcefully into the side of your cheek and keep it there while you read this book—just to remind yourself most of what you are reading is conjecture and poppycock. But—and here’s the important part—you’ll have a hell of a good read! As I went from one exploit to another, I kept...
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
| Author | John Graves |
| ISBN | 0375727787 |
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged...
| Author | Donald J. Trump |
| ISBN | 0812929640 |
Trump's story begins when many real estate moguls went belly-up in what he calls the Great Depression of 1990. Trump reveals how he renegotiated millions of dollars in bank loans and survived the recession, paving the way for a resurgence, during which he built the most successful casino operation...
| Author | Eric Jay Dolin |
| ISBN | 0871404338 |
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....
| Author | Jonathan Kozol |
| ISBN | 1400052467 |
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys...
| Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0399588213 |
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world--from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts
As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about...
| Author | John Mosier |
| ISBN | 0060084332 |
This book was recommended by a friend but I should have been wary when the author states in the intoduction that he doesn't have a lot of knowledge of World War One (he's a professor of English who specializes in European literature). That was an understatement. The goal Dr. Mosier sets for himself is to...
| Author | Peter Saccio |
| ISBN | 0195123190 |
Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the...
| Author | Heather Hansen |
| ISBN | 9781594858 |
Anyone who has stood beneath a redwood, neck craned to see its top rising far above; or who has heard ghostly whispers of residents long-past among the burnt-red cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde; or who has climbed the stairs to gaze out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown, would agree that our National...
| Author | Sarah Murray |
| ISBN | 0312533020 |
With the surprising humor of Mary Roach’s Stiff and the globe-spanning bravado of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, this is a journey into the astonishingly diverse ways in which we send off our dead
Journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen...
| Author | Rosalie De Rosset |
| ISBN | 0802405649 |
You can’t afford to live casually, haphazardly.
No matter your age, you were born into a plethora of expectations of what it means to be a woman. How easily we assume impoverished views of womanhood as we hoist beauty and desirability above the more enduring traits of self-possession and...
| Author | Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius |
This is a well-presented and insightful introductory course.
I was quite disappointed, however, that, despite spending time on post-war (inter-war) developments in the most important countries that chose a "third way" between representative governments with free or freeish markets and...
| Author | Huw Lewis-Jones |
| ISBN | 1452158274 |
The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by...
| Author | J. Rufus Fears |
| ISBN | 1598030264 |
Professor Fears presents his choices from some of the most essential writings in history, ranging in time from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America. He focuses on intellectual history and ethics, taking underlying ideas of each...
The Road to War is an in-depth analysis of the major players of WWII (Great Britain, Germany, United States, Japan, France, Russia, and Italy) during the period from the end of WWI up to Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. It examines the mood and political thinking of each countries leaders and citizens...
Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction 2. The Sources 3. Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans 4. The Foundation of Rome 5. The Kings of Rome 6. Regal Society 7. The Beginnings of the Republic 8. The Struggle of the Orders 9. Roman Expansion in Italy 10. The Roman Confederation in Italy 11. The International...
| Author | David M. Brown |
| ISBN | 1612341535 |
At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school s basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal...
Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend
| Author | Kate Chenery Tweedy |
Secretariat's Meadow
“Secretariat’s Meadow-The Land, The Family, The Legend” is a non-fiction story by Kate Chenery Tweedy that is full of history, family pride, and of course horses. Kate dedicates her book to her mother, Penny Chenery, and grandfather, Christopher Chenery, when...
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0792776283 |
Churchill's six volume history of the Second World War sat on my parents' bookshelves for decades and now sit on mine, unopened. I was therefore grateful to see that BBC Audio has produced Churchill's abridged history (four volumes rather than six) on CD, narrated by an actor with a passable immitation...
| Author | Cindy Ott |
| ISBN | 0295993324 |
New in paperbackWhile many cultures eat pumpkin year round, North Americans reserve it for a set of beloved autumn rituals that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. In a fascinating cultural and natural history, "Pumpkin" shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to connect with nature...
The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won
| Author | Peter Navarro |
| ISBN | 0132281287 |
China's breakneck industrialization is placing it on a collision course with the entire world. Tomorrow's China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and leading-edge technologies to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel...even food, water, and air....
My selection for this month’s book of the month is David Garrison’s A Wind in the House of Islam. Meticulously researched, this book provides necessary background information for Christians who want to understand anything Muslim-related in the modern world. Whether we are talking about world...
Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
| Author | Don Peck |
| ISBN | 0307886522 |
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves...
| Author | Erica Komisar |
| ISBN | 1681685043 |
Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well as that of the mothers who care for them, this book shows mothers and fathers how to give their children the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of...
| Author | Michael Scheuer |
| ISBN | 0199738661 |
9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist...
