Top 10 Enigmatic People in History

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  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    • ASIN: 0393609391
    • ISBN: 9780393609394
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaim... [Read More]

  • The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington

    • ASIN: B07G74T4DK
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making.Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency seems to bring a new crisis, a deepening sense of nationa... [Read More]

  • People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)

    • ASIN: 1595584773
    • ISBN: 1595584773
    • Brand: Zirin, Dave
    • Manufacturer: The New Press

    From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop cultureIn this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the coun... [Read More]

  • The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History

    • UPC: 052550022506
    • ASIN: 0806513500
    • ISBN: 9780806513508
    • Brand: Citadel Press
    • Manufacturer: Citadel

    In 1978, when Michael Hart’s controversial book The 100 was first published, critics objected that Hart had the nerve not only to select who he thought were the most influential people in history, but also to rank them according to their importance. Needless to say, the critics were wrong, and to date more than 60,000 copies of the book have bee... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ISBN: 1538729741
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including... [Read More]

  • Life: Our Century In Pictures

    • ASIN: 0821226339
    • ISBN: 0821226339
    • Manufacturer: Bulfinch

  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

    • ASIN: 0807057835
    • ISBN: 0807057835
    • Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    2015 Recipient of the American Book AwardThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples  Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. ... [Read More]

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    • ASIN: B00BAXFECK
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    • ASIN: 1501134612
    • ISBN: 1501134612
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Num... [Read More]

  • A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)

    • ASIN: 1609804163
    • ISBN: 9781609804169
    • Brand: Triangle Square
    • Manufacturer: Triangle Square

    A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely t... [Read More]

  • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0143110438
    • ISBN: 0143110438
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." —The Wall Street Journal He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bests... [Read More]

  • African People in World History (Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture)

    • ASIN: 0933121776
    • ISBN: 0933121776
    • Brand: Brand: Black Classic Press
    • Manufacturer: Black Classic Press

    Dr. John Henrik Clarke s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series. This series is devoted to the publication of views expressed by leading contemporary thinkers and essayists. Dr. Clarke qualifies as both. He is Professor Emeritus of African World History at Hunter College. As a historian, educ... [Read More]

  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)

    • ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
    • Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

  • The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom from Fear, Part One (Oxford History of the United States)

    • ASIN: 0195168925
    • ISBN: 0195168925
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity.Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a re... [Read More]

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ISBN: 1101912375
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]

  • A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror (For Young People Series)

    • ASIN: 1583228691
    • ISBN: 1583228691
    • Brand: Triangle Square
    • Manufacturer: Triangle Square

    A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A Pe... [Read More]

  • Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160949
    • ISBN: 0761160949
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations—from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exp... [Read More]

  • Becoming

    • ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United Stat... [Read More]

  • The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

    • ASIN: B01CO34IQM
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in... [Read More]

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