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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Jacob Goldstein · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st... |
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Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you're too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into... |
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A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these... |
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Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
Marc Levinson · Princeton University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global... |
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Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
Volker Ullrich · Knopf
Pages: 848
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself. In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated... |
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The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
Jennet Conant · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor's discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari,... |
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge · Abrams Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten... |
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All About the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post
Leonard Downie Jr · PublicAffairs
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In 1964, as a 22-year-old Ohio State graduate with working-class Cleveland roots and a family to support, Len Downie landed an internship with the Washington Post. He would become a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding... |
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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered... |
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