AN Wilson Both the longest reigning British monarch and female sovereign in history, Queen Victoria was a figure of profound paradox who has mystified historians for over a century. Now...

Jenny Diski Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like...

Rex Weyler This classic and accessible history of the American Indian Movement details an important part of Native peoples' continuing struggles against corporate and governmental development interests. Blood of the...

Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

Michael Bar-Zohar Drawing on his own close personal relationship and on previously unavailable firsthand sources — including David Ben-Gurion’s secret files —Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli scholar and official Ben-Gurion biographer, has...

Sarah Silverman A real treat for any Sarah Silverman fan. Illustrated with photos. January 1, 2010 by Harper

Arun Kundnani Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles at him froma few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded the building on that October...

Richard Crossman January 1, 1960 by Atheneum Publishers

Peter Sis In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia—a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV...

Kate Pankhurst Fantastically Great Women Who Made History is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Kate Pankhurst's hugely successful, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, number one best-selling children's...

Bruno Stevens Documents 10 years of the conflict of the century - photographs from Israel and Palestine February 15, 2011 by Lannoo Publishers

Robert B Reich Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account...