Through the 1971 Crisis: An Eyewitness Account by a Soldier

By Major General Hakeem Arshad Qureshi

Uranium

By Tom Zoellner

The astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundam...

The Garden of Invention

By Jane S. Smith

The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there be...

A Teacher's Guide to Imperialism: A History in Documents

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Eiffel's Tower

By Jill Jonnes

The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower...

The Inheritance of Rome

By Chris Wickham

"The breath  of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sin...

The West: Encounters & Transformations: To 1715: Atlas Edition

By Edward Muir, Michael Maas, Meredith Veldman, Brian P. Levack

When China Rules the World

By Martin Jacques

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, Ch...

Elephant Days and Nights: Ten Years with the Indian Elephant

By Raman Sukumar

Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, from 1600 to the Present: 2

By Mark A. Kishlansky