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Holding back the sea: the struggle on the Gulf Coast to save America
Par Christopher Hallowell. 2005
Professor examines the plight of coastal Louisiana wetlands. Attributes their decline to sea-level rise, erosion, dredging, and the levee system…
and discusses how special-interest groups have hampered preservation efforts. The account, first published in 2001, predicts the inevitability and consequences of hurricanes and includes a post-Hurricane Katrina introduction. 2005An ordinary man: an autobiography
Par Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner. 2006
Autobiography of the manager of the hotel Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda. Paul Rusesabagina, a man of mixed Hutu and…
Tutsi heritage, describes how in April 1994 he saved twelve hundred Rwandans from the genocide that slaughtered eight hundred thousand. Basis for Hotel Rwanda movie. Violence and strong language. 2006African heroes (Black stars #8)
Par James Haskins. 2005
Minibiographies of twenty-seven leaders on the African continent. Covers heroes from ancient empires, men who led the struggle against European…
incursion, and outstanding people of the twentieth century, such as Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and Kofi Annan. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2005Patriot pirates: the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution
Par Robert H. Patton. 2008
Details America's maritime conflicts with the British during the Revolutionary War that consisted primarily of commissioned private American vessels attacking…
enemy ships. Describes the huge profits the privateer owners made from their wartime activities and discusses the ways their newfound wealth propelled the nation's entrepreneurialism. 2008Fish on Friday: feasting, fasting, and the discovery of the New World
Par Brian M Fagan. 2006
Author of Little Ice Age (BR 13935) argues that Northern European fishermen arrived in North America centuries before Columbus. Using…
archaeological evidence and research, anthropologist Fagan posits that improved ship construction and the search for cod combined with Christian doctrine to impel pre-1400 exploration of Newfoundland fishing grounds. Includes recipes. 2006What caused the Civil War?: reflections on the South and Southern history
Par Edward L Ayers. 2005
Analyzes the essence of Southern culture and its permeation of American society. Essays include topics on the Civil War, Reconstruction,…
the "New South," and Ayers's childhood in segregated Tennessee in the 1960s. Some strong language. 2005Thunderstruck
Par Erik Larson. 2006
Edwardian England. Chronicles the 1910 manhunt for Dr. H.H. Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled in disguise by ocean…
liner to Canada with his lover. Describes how Guglielmo Marconi's 1895 invention of wireless communication enabled Scotland Yard to pursue the killer and enthrall the world. Bestseller. 2006Child of the winds: my mission with Raoul Wallenberg
Par Agnes Adachi. 1989
Author's memories of work in 1944 Budapest with a courageous Swede who saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis in…
six months. Adachi recalls the Soviet liberation of Hungary and Wallenberg's arrest by the Soviets, after which he was condemned to the gulag for over forty years. 1989State of denial: Bush at War, Part III
Par Bob Woodward. 2006
This sequel to Plan of Attack (RC 58239) examines the Bush administration's prosecution of the Iraq war. Extensive interviews and…
research document the dissension inside the White House from December 2000, when Donald Rumsfeld was appointed secretary of defense, through July 2006. Bestseller. 2006Sweetness and light: the mysterious history of the honeybee
Par Hattie Ellis. 2004
Explores the interaction between bees, honey, and humans from the Stone Age to modern times, from Nepalese honey hunters to…
beekeepers on New York City rooftops. Discusses three men--a Dutch scientist, a Philadelphia clergyman, and a German monk--who influenced the development of beekeeping in the Western world. 2004Betraying Spinoza: the renegade Jew who gave us modernity (Jewish Encounters Ser.)
Par Rebecca Goldstein. 2006
Discusses the seventeenth-century philosopher Benedictus Spinoza (1632-1677), his education in the Talmudic tradition, and his expulsion from the Amsterdam Jewish…
community. Examines the effects on Spinoza of being declared a heretic, the influence of Jewish persecution on his philosophy of rationality over religion, and his contributions to Western thought. 2006Life of a Medieval knight (The way People Live Ser.the way People Live)
Par James A Corrick. 2001
Focuses on knighthood between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries when it flourished in Europe. Discusses the different stages of training--page,…
squire, and knight--and various means of earning money. Covers methods of attack, including sieges and close-quarter. Describes the Crusades, feudalism, and the end of chivalry. For grades 5-8. 2001Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter recounts the experiences of homesteaders who remained on their land during the 1930s dust…
storms that ravaged the southern Great Plains. Examines both human and ecological aspects of the disaster and the effects on survivors' daily lives, health, and communities. National Book Award. 2006Les derniers sauvages aux îles Marquises, [1842-1859
Par Max Radiguet. 2001
Un jeune homme, qui n'a pas encore vingt-cinq ans, décide de s'embarquer sur la Reine Blanche pour les Îles Marquises.…
Jouant le rôle de secrétaire de l'amiral Dupetit-Thomas, il décrit les lieux, mais plus particulièrement les modes de vie et mœurs des habitants de ces ÎlesHistoire du terrorisme
Par Dominique Venner. 2002
"On se souviendra longtemps des avions-suicide percutant les deux tours du World Trade Center, le 11 septembre 2001. Comment expliquer…
de telles extrémités ? Où conduisent-elles ? C'est à ces questions et à beaucoup d'autres que répond cette Histoire du terrorisme. A travers une série d'exemples types, Dominique Venner retrace ici la plus dramatique et la moins connue des histoires. Avec lui, on voit comment naissent les révoltes, d'où viennent les acteurs, comment ils justifient la terreur, quelles complicités leur profitent, quelles angoisses les habitent. On mesure également leurs limites, leurs victoires, leurs échecs. On découvre qu'enfant de notre époque, le terrorisme en est la figure monstrueuse mais parfois désirée, car la frontière est souvent floue qui sépare le terrorisme de la résistance à l'oppression et aux humiliations." -- 4e de couvHer Majesty's spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the birth of modern espionage
Par Stephen Budiansky. 2005
Biography of the Puritan secretary of the Privy Council, who oversaw espionage for British monarch Elizabeth I. Describes ways Walsingham…
perfected techniques to operate secretly against Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Catholic countries of France and Spain. Explains his use of code breaking and secret agents. Violence. 2005Empire of the stars: obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes
Par Arthur I Miller. 2005
Examines the history of astrophysics in the early twentieth century when the concept of black holes was hotly debated by…
a young graduate student from India and a leading British scientist. Discusses their professional rivalry and its repercussions on their personal lives and the scientific community. 2005Folding paper cranes: an atomic memoir
Par Leonard Bird. 2005
Memoir composed of accounts and poems confronting the legacy and future of nuclear warfare. Bird reflects on his visits to…
post-war Hiroshima and his experiences at the Nevada Test Site in 1957, when his marine unit was exposed to radiation during atomic detonations, which later caused his cancer. 2005Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams
Par Michael D'Antonio. 2006
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and career of Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945), whose name is synonymous with chocolate. Discusses…
Hershey's business success, the model community around the Pennsylvania factory, and the 2002 controversy over the school trust. Presents the corporate titan's flaws as well as his ideals. 2006Maritcha: a nineteenth-century American girl
Par Tonya Bolden. 2004
Biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848-1929), an African American girl who fought to attend the town's only high school--an all-white…
one. Describes her family and childhood in New York and Rhode Island before, during, and after the Civil War. Based on Lyons's memoir. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2005