Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
9 best books like Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses (John Dvorak): The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder, The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History, Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
| Author | Elaine F. Weiss |
| ISBN | 0525429727 |
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375867821 |
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0385539304 |
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.
Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.
For five years, Esther and...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
| Author | Fred Kaplan |
| ISBN | 1476763259 |
The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future - the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
| Author | David Baron |
| ISBN | 1631490168 |
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another—an adventuresome female astronomer—fought to prove that science was...
| Author | Alan S. Cowell |
| ISBN | 0385523556 |
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré...
The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
| Author | Erik Durschmied |
| ISBN | 1611453216 |
From the wooden horse at Troy to a harrowing photograph snapped in Vietnam, from Robert E. Lee’s lost battle plans to the evacuation of Dunkirk, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Time and again, invincible armies fall to weaker opponents in the face...
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
| Author | James Mahaffey |
| ISBN | 1480447749 |
A “delightfully astute” and “entertaining” history of the mishaps and meltdowns that have marked the path of scientific progress (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Radiation: What could go wrong? In short, plenty. From Marie Curie carrying around a vial of radium salt because...
