The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
10 best books like The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Roberta Brandes Gratz): To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Finding Dorothy, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, The Guns of August, The Great War and Modern Memory
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
| Author | Adam Hochschild |
| ISBN | 0618758283 |
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside...
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker...
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0307452891 |
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
| Author | Elizabeth Letts |
| ISBN | 0525622101 |
A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud--from the family's hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.
Maud...
| Author | Marc Reisner |
| ISBN | 0140178244 |
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | Edmund Morris |
| ISBN | 0375756787 |
'Colonel Roosevelt,' which takes its title from Roosevelt's favourite way of being addressed during his emeritus years, follows the African Journey with Mr. Morris's characteristic care. He uses primary sources, sometimes even rough drafts of letters and documents, and goes well beyond Roosevelt's...
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,...
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0195133323 |
The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918,...
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0345375564 |
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth...
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
| Author | Daniel Okrent |
| ISBN | 0743277023 |
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel...
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
| Author | Sarah Vowell |
| ISBN | 1594631743 |
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette--the one Frenchman we could all agree on--and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
On August 16,...
| Author | Clive Cussler |
| ISBN | 0525539611 |
Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo return for a new adventure as they hunt for ancient treasure–that may or may not be cursed–in this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler’s bestselling series.
In 533 A.D., the last King of the Vandals still rules in Northern...
How to Read Bridges: A Crash Course in Engineering and Architecture
| Author | Edward Denison |
| ISBN | 0789324911 |
This accessible book is a visual guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles and engineering techniques of all types of bridges, from ancient Roman arch bridges and nineteenth-century truss bridges prevalent in the United States, to the latest high-design cantilever and suspension...
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
| Author | Eugenia Cheng |
| ISBN | 0465051715 |
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for...
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde were good news for the world. Really. Not convinced? Consider the following:
1. Genghis Khan was an advocate of human rights, specifically freedom of religion, freedom from torture and free trade (he got two of the Four Freedoms right, which is pretty impressive...
Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin the Gray Man.
After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had...
