'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the YearAs Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict.
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'.
The ultimate bread making reference, including theory, techniques and recipesThe latest in the bestselling National Trust series which has so far comprised Scones, Puddings, Jams, Crumbles and Afternoon Tea, this handy guide contains all the information and inspiration needed to start making bread.
'A miracle of a book' CELIA PAULA stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn the aftermath of catastrophic loss, a mother and her young son cross the Atlantic, taking refuge in a wooden house on a remote strip of land.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and communityAs Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband George goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army's orders to drive in the Native Americans who would not willingly relocate to a reservation.
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "e;unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war"e; (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)'The book we need right now' Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalWhat do we owe the past?
The Central Intelligence Agency's most respected former Middle East counterterrorism officer applies a critical lens to the state of America's Homeland Security system and asks, ';Are we really any safer than we were on 9/11?
A brilliant, glittering intelligence Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations.
This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.
From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture - bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream - comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions.
The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendantsIn 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica.
Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century'Engrossing' THE TIMES'In this excellent study, Thomas More is reborn as a complex, absorbing man' DAILY TELEGRAPH'[A] immersive, richly told account of life, death, faith and politics at the early Tudor court' SPECTATOR'THE definitive biography of one of history's most complex and often inscrutable characters' NATHEN AMIN'Significant.
Highly respected illustrator Anna Koska is best known for her drawings of fish and fruit and is widely celebrated by food journalists and restaurateurs.
Their own origins myths put them at the scene of the Crucifixion, deprived of a home of their own, doomed to a life of wandering, and granted by God the right to steal from other people in order to survive.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICKA rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump s ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly WASHINGTON POST A fascinating, provocative challenge to our age passionate, unexpected, illuminating RORY STEWARTWith the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated and US power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a kinder, gentler America .
People Best New BookThe inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with itReleased in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever.
The revised and updated edition of Texas Then and Now features the most prominent locations from around the state, pairing vintage photographs with modern shots of the same sites today.
