From a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts thinking about America's founding period.…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction \"Rebel historian\" Kelly Lytle Hernandez reframes our…

\nHow Chinese migration to the world\'s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race\n…

\nThe first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our…

\nAn incisive biography of E.E. Cummings\' early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent…

\nWhy the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success.\n…

• Rok vydání 2013

Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest . . . hardest form of war.-John Nagl, Wall Street Journal…

\nA classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the…

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• Rok vydání 2023

\nThe first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the…

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.…

• Rok vydání 2020

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator re-imagines The Art of War.…

• Rok vydání 2005

An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu. Magisterial -New York Review of Books.…

\nA group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them\n…

• Rok vydání 1984

\nAn entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized…

From the schism of Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty and to the birth of Muhammad, this erudite book…

• Rok vydání 2017

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's nimble gallop and brings an ancient epic to new life.…

\nA narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorised Peru even after the fall of global Communism.\n…

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\nThe extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we…

\nAn eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries,…

\nA rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East\n…

\nAmerican presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational…

\nA definitive history of the race to unravel DNA\'s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.\n…

A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor from a former US Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.…

The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated-and controversial-military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid.…

\nThe first book in a new three-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and…

A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world…

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\nWinston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America and Britain’s “Special…

A biography of one of America\'s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.…

\nThe epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas…

\nFrom a New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar…

\nA magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between \"progress\" and \"tradition\" in the world\'s largest…

\nFinally revealing the family\'s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the…

A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen…

An incisive biography of E.E. Cummings\' early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent…

The definitive account of Louis Armstrong-his life and legacy-during the most creative period of his career.…

• Rok vydání 2014

\nThe definitive account of Louis Armstrong-his life and legacy-during the most creative period of his career.\n…

With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs yet.…

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic…

• Rok vydání 2019

\nThe leading text, beloved for authoritative coverage and narrative flair.\n…