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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal …
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
An ex-Marine captain shares his story of fighting in a recon battalion in both Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with his brutal training on Quantico Island and following his …
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
"Engrossing... Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail."--New York Times Book Review From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash …
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the …
The Island: The Making and Unmaking of Modern Puerto Rico
NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary expos on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of …
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few …
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and …
Henry Adams and the Making of America
In Henry Adams and the Making of America, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a reassessment of Henry Adams as our nation's greatest historian and his …
Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California--from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech …