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Titles by Discipline - History
Click Here to Print This ListFrom an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.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… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465093861
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: September 22nd 2020
Basic Books
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465064267
USD: $35 / CAD: $44
On Sale: April 14th 2020
Basic Books
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel.In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316409148
USD: $22.99 / CAD: $28.99
On Sale: May 12th 2020
Little, Brown and Company
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780465096985
USD: $35 / CAD: $44
On Sale: August 25th 2020
Basic Books
The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver). In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316435031
USD: $28 / CAD: $35
On Sale: July 28th 2020
Little, Brown and Company
The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541672727
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: April 28th 2020
Basic Books
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "The Sapiens of 2020."---The GuardianFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists comes "the riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People), the #1 Dutch bestseller Humankind, which offers a "bold" (Daniel H. Pink), "extraordinary" (Susan Cain) argument that humans thrive in… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316418539
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: June 2nd 2020
Little, Brown and Company
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during… Read More
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316381673
USD: $18.99 / CAD: $23.99
On Sale: July 21st 2020
Little, Brown and Company
During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. Unofficially, he… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306902772
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: October 6th 2020
Hachette Books
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the… Read More
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781541618619
USD: $30 / CAD: $38
On Sale: September 8th 2020
Basic Books