The History of Our American Flag
Pryor Publications. Trade Paperback. More
History
Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American
Signet, March 1999. Mass Market Paperback. More
The Long Road to Victory (Facsimile Reprint from The Times, May 8, 1945)
Pryor Publications, May 2001. Trade Paperback. More
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2020. Trade Paperback. "A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has..... More
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Random House Publishing Group, March 2017. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE..... More
Punishments in the Olden Time
Pryor Publications, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...... More
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Vintage, May 1999. Trade Paperback. The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit..... More
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
MCD, August 2022. Hardcover. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data. The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual..... More
Appeal in Favor of Africans: An Appeal in Favor of Americans Called Africans
Applewood Books, January 2006. Trade Paperback. One of the most important abolitionist works, by one of America's most important women writers. Child, outspoken in her condemnation of slavery, pointed out its contradiction with Christian teachings, described the moral and physical degradation it brought upon slaves and owners alike, and not..... More
The Chomsky Reader
Pantheon, September 1987. Trade Paperback. The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual--"arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times). At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas--sometimes..... More
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Penguin Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize "The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying." --The New York Review of Books From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account..... More
Punch and Judy
Pryor, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy "A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction."--The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF..... More
Salvador
Vintage, April 1994. Trade Paperback. "Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror--its mechanisms, rationales, and..... More
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Back Bay Books, August 2022. Trade Paperback. The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New..... More
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Beacon Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United..... More
Man's Search for Meaning
Beacon Press, June 2006. Trade Paperback. A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published. "This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope .... More
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Harper Perennial, September 2011. Trade Paperback. More
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Beacon Press, March 2020. Trade Paperback. More
A Little History of the World (Little Histories)
Yale University Press, October 2008. Trade Paperback. The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A...... More
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Picador Paper, April 2023. Trade Paperback. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our..... More
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 2010. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction "with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller"(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration..... More
The Best and the Brightest
Ballantine Books, October 1993. Trade Paperback. More
