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Vendor: Jared Cohen
Speaking of America: United States Presidents and the Words That Changed History
From New York Times bestselling author Jared Cohen comes an encouraging and engaging debut children's book that brings United States history to life through forty-five compelling presidential quotes, demonstrating the power of words and inspiring hope for the future of America.From 1776 to the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Elle Reeve
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Kelly Lytle Hernández
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a...- $55.99
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Vendor: Shashi Tharoor
Inglorious Empire Lib/E: What the British Did to India
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and...- $71.99
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Vendor: Clint Johnson
Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars
Author: Clint JohnsonISBN-10: 1665213361ISBN-13: 9781665213363Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2019Format: CD- $46.99
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Vendor: Janet Benge
Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems (Audiobook)
Amy Carmichael stood on the deck of the steamer, waving good-bye once again to her old friend Robert Wilson. How could she have known she would never see him or the British Isles again? Amy was certain God had called her to India. Indeed...- $21.99
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Vendor: Janet Metzger
Healing Wounds Lib/E: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the first-ever memorial on the National Mall...- $19.99
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Vendor: Kassia St Clair
The Race to the Future: 8000 Miles to Paris - The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
The racers battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Desert. Competitors endure torrential rain and choking dust. There are barely any roads, and petrol is almost impossible to find. More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge...- $49.99
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Vendor: Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering...- $69.99
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Vendor: Nigel Patterson
The Origins of the Second World War
Author: Nigel Patterson, A. J. P. TaylorISBN-10: 1665236531ISBN-13: 9781665236539Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2018Format: MP3 CD- $17.99
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Vendor: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies...- $51.99
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Vendor: David Chaffetz
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare,...- $45.95
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Vendor: David Chaffetz
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare,...- $55.99
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Vendor: Ilan Pappe
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US, and others In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby...- $69.99
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Vendor: Jason Stanley
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality, and class. Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our...- $29.99
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Vendor: Max Hastings
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence--one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the...- $49.99
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Vendor: Inc National Public Radio
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music--from Beyonc? to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton--featuring excerpts of archival interviews, essays, and best album and song...- $45.95
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Vendor: George Stephanopoulos
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
George Stephanopoulos, the political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than...- $35.95
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Vendor: David Rohde
Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy
Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so successfully that when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, he paid little...- $49.99
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Vendor: Richard Grant
A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona
The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America's most divisive issues: Arizona.When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where...- $39.99
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Vendor: Saad Mohseni
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan's largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free...- $49.99
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Vendor: Inc National Public Radio
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music--from Beyonc? to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton--featuring excerpts of archival interviews, essays, and best album and song...- $55.99
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Vendor: J. W. Ocker
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives
From the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids comes an eye-popping compendium of the most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history.Have you ever wondered how smart, normal people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Weird history expert J. W....- $39.95
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Vendor: Luis Elizondo
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
Author: Luis ElizondoISBN-13: 9798874871277Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2024Format: MP3 CD- $45.95
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Vendor: Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Written nearly two thousand years ago, Emperor Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains a relevant and profound philosophical exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life.Never intended to be published, the diaries of Marcus Aurelius--philosopher and emperor of Rome (161-180 CE)--proves that humans have...- $35.95
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Vendor: Simon Parkin
The Forbidden Garden: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad
From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who were faced with an impossible choice during the Second World War's Siege of Leningrad: eat the seeds to stave...- $39.99
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Vendor: Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam KeanISBN-13: 9798200101719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2010Format: CD- $20.99
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Vendor: Derek Perkins
The Forgotten Soldier Lib/E
Author: Derek Perkins, Guy SajerISBN-10: 166527929XISBN-13: 9781665279291Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2017Format: CD- $25.49
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Vendor: Charles Murray
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and '70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Steve Benen
Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors."There is nobody...who has more influence on the way I think about politics than Steve...- $39.99
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Vendor: Luis Elizondo
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
Author: Luis ElizondoISBN-13: 9798874871260Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2024Format: CD- $49.99
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Vendor: Renee Hartman
Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two...- $29.99
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Vendor: David S. Brown
A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
From popular historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law--the Kansas-Nebraska Act--unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the...- $44.99
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Vendor: Corey Brettschneider
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account...- $55.99
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Vendor: Kellie Carter Jackson
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching...- $45.95
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Vendor: Alexandre Montagu
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Nate Schweber
This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis Devoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
The untold story of the extraordinary fight to defend American wilderness from McCarthyism, and the radical couple who led the charge--and inspired a future of conservationIn late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was...- $41.99
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Vendor: Rachel Devlin
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education.The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits...- $35.00
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Vendor: A. L. Sadler
Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace...- $59.95
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Vendor: Donna Postel
A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some...- $77.00
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Vendor: Katie Pavlich
Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up
Author: Katie PavlichISBN-10: 8200080390ISBN-13: 9798200080397Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2012Format: MP3 CD- $45.95
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Vendor: Toby Wilkinson
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Author: Toby WilkinsonISBN-10: 1665260432ISBN-13: 9781665260435Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Format: CD- $57.99
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Vendor: Various Authors
A Word Is Not a Sparrow: A Benefit Anthology for Ukraine Relief
Artists in Ukraine have lost their livelihoods. The Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project was launched to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.It is a fundamental aspect of war to suppress story, language, and culture. Moved by this crisis of culture,...- $35.95
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Vendor: David K. Randall
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European...- $49.99
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Vendor: David K. Randall
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European...- $45.95
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Vendor: Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a...- $45.95
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Vendor: Rebecca Nagle
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights...- $45.95
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Vendor: Andrew Leigh
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
"If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work." --Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard UniversityA sweeping, engrossing history of how economic...- $45.95
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President
From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders.Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin...- $34.99
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Vendor: Barry Werth
Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War
The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II...- $49.99
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