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From revolutions to revelations, these books decode society’s tangled mess with insight, wit, and maybe a conspiracy theory or two.
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast...
"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure." — New York Times Book ReviewThe Years of...
Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.History books are often filled with long descriptions, complex facts, and stories that can bore even the most enthusiastic history buffs. In World History 101 you’ll skip those...
A definitive history of America’s vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era, from the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman’s America.A New York Times Notable Book“Reynolds’s book shines a bright light on the cultural, social, intellectual, and...
The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the...
A “provocative, colloquial and entertaining” (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement) exploration of medieval thinking about women’s beauty, sexuality, and behavior.“A timely corrective…Ms. Janega’s witty but merciless dissection of medieval misogyny is a...
“A magisterial narrative history. Brilliantly recaptures the hopes, illusions, fears, suspicions, frustrations, and disappointments of these tumultuous years” (Los Angeles Times) during the Vietnam War. *Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for...
With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the one-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix from which all subsequent disasters of the twentieth...
“Clever, bold, and refreshingly feminist; readers will be engaged and entertained to the very end." (Booklist)This wildly entertaining new history of Rome uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world, from the acclaimed author of A Fatal...
*The Instant New York Times Bestseller*“A book historians will relish.”—Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal"Must read. I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best."—Bill PressAn account like no other, from the White House reporter who has known...