Cambridge University Press, November 1980. Paper Back. On 18 March 1314, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars, was burned at the stake. For almost two centuries, the knights of the Order of the Temple had flourished during the Crusades in Palestine and Syria, and in the West, notably..... More

Liveright, September 2022. Hardcover. There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples..... More

HarperOne, December 2003. Hardcover. More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional and spiritual truth --..... More

Belknap Press, April 1992. Hardcover. In the words of the general editors, A History of Women seeks "to understand women's place in society, their condition, the roles they played and the powers they possessed, their silence, their speech, and their deeds. It is the variety of the representations of women--as..... More

The Passenger, February 2021. Paper Back. The Big Dig by Elif Batuman - A Story of Dust and Light by Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of..... More

Anchor Books, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city's..... More

Spiegel & Grau, August 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one..... More

Riverhead Books, January 2023. Paper Back. A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the..... More

Knopf Publishing Group, October 2022. Hardcover. A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - "Accessible and entertaining." --The Wall Street Journal Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. Paper Back. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy" (Alexis Okeowo, The New..... More

Doubleday, January 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily lightened/sunned mass market paperback cover. Third edition/third printing. [360 pages0. More

Oxford University Press, USA, October 1993. Hardcover. Provides accounts by the men and women who worked in Bletchley Park - the most successful intelligence agency in world history. Their codebreaking work was the secret weapon that won the war, according to Churchill. Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence..... More

Vintage, February 2023. Paper Back. The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II--from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. "Thrilling from the first page to the last."..... More