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Written by Martin van Creveld
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $30.00
A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world’s shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture of War, he argues that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another for... Read more >
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
"A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past."
—The Boston Globe
"The book is a pleasure to read. . . . Ulrich's style is plain and direct."
—The Washington Post Book... Read more >
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95
The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson—recluse, poet—and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.
Their friendship began in 1862. The Civil War was raging. Dickinson was thirty-one; Higginson, thirty-eight. A former pastor at the Free Church of Worcester, Massachusetts...
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who... Read more >
Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $26.00
This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city’s treasures against the historic background of Florence’s glorious art.
On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world’s most historic cities and the repository of...
Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $14.95
Acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic.
The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a... Read more >
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $16.95
As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most... Read more >
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Written by David Dary
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
In his new book, David Dary, one of our leading social historians, gives us a fascinating, informative account of American frontier medicine from our Indian past to the beginning of World War II, as the frontier moved steadily westward from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean.
He begins with the early...
A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
Written by Russell Shorto
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $26.00
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France...
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A memoir
Written by Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $25.00
This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world.
Thomas Keneally met Leopold...
