Geography and History

A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution from the bestselling author of American Dynasty.In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle’..

A History of Medicine in 50 Objects takes readers on a 12,000-year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the c..

Get ready to learn everything you've ever wanted to know about world history! Find out• How long dinosaurs roamed the earth• What people ate during the Middle Ages• How colonists made money• All about Sir Isaac Newton• How cellophane was invented• What the Y2K bug was• And much, much more..

What happens after you click Tweet? The heart-stopping definitive account of the mission to rescue hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls whose abduction ignited a global social media campaign and a dramatic worldwide intervention. In the spring of 2014, millions of Twitter users, including some of the wo..

Ebrey's sourcebook has long set the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. The new expanded edition, with more material on Chinese thought and religion, promises to be even more useful than its now classic predecessor...

In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noos..

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator.Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin - but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary disco..

Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 traces the Mahatma’s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi’s ..

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a..

Monuments to power and prestige; supreme achievements of engineering and design; reassuring landmarks; phallic symbols; testimonies to the human spirit - no other building form arouses as much controversy as the skyscraper, which is getting taller every day. After a century during which Chicago and ..

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in thi..

A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought - from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have ..