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American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center
Par William Langewiesche. 2003
"American Ground" is the story - until now untold - of the people who responded to the destruction of the…
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Within days, William Langewiesche made his way into the innermost recesses of the collapse. By virtue of the integrity and excellence of his previous work, he quickly secured unique, unrestricted, around-the-clock access to the site, the rescue workers and labourers there, and the meetings of city officials, engineers, construction companies, and consultants. 2003.An ocean apart: the relationship between Britain and America in the twentieth century
Par David Reynolds, David Dimbleby. 1988
Explores the unique relationship which has grown between Great Britain and the United States. America grew up in the shadow…
of Britain, and now the situation has been reversed with the United States becoming the dominant partner. 1988.America's secret aristocracy
Par Stephen Birmingham. 1987
America divided: the civil war of the 1960s
Par Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin. 2000
An examination of political, social, and cultural developments of the 1960s by historians Isserman of Hamilton College and Kazin of…
Georgetown University. They survey the growth of activism among young people, the search for a more authentic spirituality, the Civil Rights movement, planning for the Great Society, and Vietnam. 2000.Alice in Quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
Par R. S Gilmore. 1995
Physicist Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantumland - a whole new Wonderland,…
smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. Alice's unusual encounters make the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts easier to grasp. 1995.Alistair Cooke's America
Par Alistair Cooke. 1973
This is an expanded version of the television series. The author writes about the land and the people with the…
dispassionate but affectionate characteristic of his "Letter from America" broadcasts, and offers unusual explanations and interpretations of episodes which have affected the course of the country's history. 1973.Above & beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission
Par Casey Sherman, Mike Tougias. 2018
This book tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of three characters: Kennedy, and two U-2…
pilots, Rudy Anderson and Charles Maultsby, who found themselves in the crosshairs of history, on the worst and most intense day of the crisis. 2018.Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it
Par Brian Murphy, Toula Vlahou. 2018
The small ship making the Liverpool to New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of…
dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. 2018.Adams vs. Jefferson: the tumultuous election of 1800 (Pivotal moments in American history)
Par John E Ferling. 2004
In 1800 the nation was struggling to its feet amidst an array of threats from foreign governments and a host…
of constitutional struggles. Against this backdrop, President John Adams, an elite, strong-willed Federalist, set to square off against his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, a populist Republican. 2004.Michael Farquhar ransacked the archives to rescue 30 almost-famous Americans from the dust bin of obscurity. These colourful figures range…
from Mayflower Murderer John Billington (1624) to Dick Fosbury, father of the "Flop" (1968). 2008.From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have…
punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. 2004.Absolute zero and the conquest of cold: And The Conquest Of Cold
Par Tom Shachtman. 1999
Historical survey of western scientists' efforts to control cold. Discusses Boyle's experiments in the seventeenth century, the invention of the…
sealed glass thermometer, the work of Fahrenheit and Celsius, the discovery of refrigeration, twentieth-century research on attaining absolute zero, and related topics of superconductivity and superfluidity. 1999.A house reunited: how America survived the Civil War (The modern scholar)
Par Jay Winik. 2003
Professor Winik examines the events leading to the end of the Civil War and ponders some of the unthinkable alternatives…
that might have prevented the formation of the country as we know it today. 2003.A history of the American people
Par Paul Johnson. 1998
A social narrative and interpretation of the history of the United States from colonial times to the Clinton era. Includes…
material gleaned from diaries, letters, and recorded conversations; character analyses of primary achievers of each era; as well as extensive and sometimes critical comments by the author, a British conservative. Bestseller. 1998. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.A good year to die: the story of the great Sioux War
Par Charles M Robinson. 1995
Narrative history of the Great Sioux War of 1876, focussing on the efforts of the United States Army, led by…
George Crook, Alfred Terry, George Armstrong Custer, and Ranald Mackenzie, to conquer the western Native American tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Robinson uses accounts from diaries, manuscripts, and newspapers to document the battles, rivalries, and competing cultures. Violence. 1995.A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
Par Rachel Devlin. 2018
A generation of sociopaths: how the baby boomers betrayed America
Par Bruce Gibney. 2017
Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.…
A former partner in a leading venture capital firm, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America. 2017.A brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes
Par Carl Sagan, S. W Hawking. 1988
The author answers the question, "How can an expanding universe follow unchanging laws of nature?" The relativity theory not only…
allows, but requires, a Big Bang. Written in layman's terms, the book explains the nature, origin, evolution and fate of our universe. Bestseller 1988.A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Par Simon Winchester. 2005
Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not…
only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of 20th-century California and American history. 2005.