Thomas Friedman A Second Edition of Thomas Friedmans stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.If youre only going to read one book on the...

Russell MartinBeethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery SolvedThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its...

Winston S Churchill In Volume 2 of Winston Churchill’s epic four-volume account of British history, he details the turbulent period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—taking us from the dramatic...

Andrew Roberts The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America —winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for...

Cassell Books The finest Britain has to offer, brilliantly commented on by its best writers and personalities. From the heroic (Winston Churchill's 1940 Speeches by Andrew Roberts) and the literary (The...

Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of...

Tom WolfeA wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test‘What is it’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man...

Dorit Bader WhitemanWhile much information exists on the dramatic fate of concentration camp victims, little is available about the Jewish men, women, and children who managed to escape before Hitler...

  Fernand Braudel "Refreshingly broad-brush in its approach...this history provides the big picture."—The Christian Science Monitor. Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the...

Svetlana Alexievich New English translation of original 1985 book by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World...

Mary Louise RobertsIn the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes....

Dava Sobel Galileo Galilei (1524-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether."...