Best People In History - April 2024

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393609391
• ASIN: 0393609391
• ISBN: 9780393609394
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington

An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making.Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency seems to bring a new crisis, a deepening sense of national unease. Why, and how, has he failed his supporters? And how has he, on occasion, bested his detractors? The Best People takes complete measure of the Trump administration, to grasp with clarity the president and his intentions, and how those int... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07G74T4DK
• ASIN: B07G74T4DK
• Manufacturer: Hachette Books

People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)

From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop cultureIn this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin’s eye... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1595584773
• ASIN: 1595584773
• ISBN: 1595584773
• Brand: Zirin, Dave
• Manufacturer: The New Press

The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History

In 1978, when Michael Hart’s controversial book The 100 was first published, critics objected that Hart had the nerve not only to select who he thought were the most influential people in history, but also to rank them according to their importance. Needless to say, the critics were wrong, and to date more than 60,000 copies of the book have been sold. Hart believed that in the intervening years the influence of some of his original selections had grown or lessened and that new names loomed large on the world stage. Thus, the publications of this revised and updated edition of The 100.As be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0806513500
• UPC: 052550022506
• ASIN: 0806513500
• ISBN: 9780806513508
• Brand: Citadel Press
• Manufacturer: Citadel

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1538729741
• ASIN: 1538729741
• ISBN: 1538729741
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Life: Our Century In Pictures

• ASIN: 0821226339
• ASIN: 0821226339
• ISBN: 0821226339
• Manufacturer: Bulfinch

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

2015 Recipient of the American Book AwardThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples  Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspect... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807057835
• ASIN: 0807057835
• ISBN: 0807057835
• Brand: Beacon Press
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

• ASIN: B00BAXFECK
• ASIN: B00BAXFECK
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501134612
• ASIN: 1501134612
• ISBN: 1501134612
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)

A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 editi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609804163
• ASIN: 1609804163
• ISBN: 9781609804169
• Brand: Triangle Square
• Manufacturer: Triangle Square

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." —The Wall Street Journal He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143110438
• ASIN: 0143110438
• ISBN: 0143110438
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

African People in World History (Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture)

Dr. John Henrik Clarke s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series. This series is devoted to the publication of views expressed by leading contemporary thinkers and essayists. Dr. Clarke qualifies as both. He is Professor Emeritus of African World History at Hunter College. As a historian, educator, and author, he has dedicated his life to uncovering the identity and place of African people in world history.

• ASIN: 0933121776
• ASIN: 0933121776
• ISBN: 0933121776
• Brand: Brand: Black Classic Press
• Manufacturer: Black Classic Press

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)

• ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
• ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
• Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom from Fear, Part One (Oxford History of the United States)

On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity.Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195168925
• ASIN: 0195168925
• ISBN: 0195168925
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - eBook

“The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas.”The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general.

• UPC: 344327459

100 Best Motivating Quotes of Great People - eBook

All process of motivation is based on the basis of needs of the person. And at us oh as there is a lot of them. On the basis of this requirement the purpose at which

• UPC: 988487066

The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly Call'd, the West-Indies : From the First Discovery Thereof, with the Best Accounts the People Could Give of Their Antiquities: Collected from the Original... Volume 1 of 6

Title: The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd, the West-Indies: from the first discovery thereof, with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities: collected from the

• UPC: 336853636

Blunting the Spear: Why Good People Get Out - USAF Retention of Best Officers from Combat Air Forces, Fighter, Bomber, Remotely Piloted Aircraft, UAV, UAS Communities, Avoiding Pilot Shortages - eBook

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this provocative book analyzes the United States Air Forces retention of the "best" rated officers from the combat air forces. Specifically, it addresses the retention of pilots

• UPC: 603922174

My Best Book of Early People

Young readers of this book will learn how early families survived, hunted, gathered into primitive settlements, began to use tools, and invented farming techniques. Step-by-step illustrations and captions explore ancient villages and the work of

• UPC: 25241022

The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly Call'd, the West-Indies : From the First Discovery Thereof, with the Best Accounts the People Could Give of Their Antiquities: Collected from the Original... Volume 2 of 6

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• UPC: 593875783

Syria and the Holy Land: Their Scenery and Their People. Being Incidents of History and Travel, from the Best and Most Recent Authorities, Incl Paperback

Syria and the Holy Land: Their Scenery and Their People. Being Incidents of History and Travel, from the Best and Most Recent Authorities, Incl Height : 0.94 In Length : 9.21 In Width : 6.14

• UPC: 457185263

The History of Our Country Fully Demonstrates the Fact That a Protective System Has Been, and Is Now, for the Best Interest of All Classes of Our People. Speech of Hon. Mark S. Brewer, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Apr. 27, 1888

The History of Our Country Fully Demonstrates the Fact That a Protective System Has Been, and Is Now, for the Best Interest of All Classes of Our Peop Height : 0.25 In Length : 9.21

• UPC: 449278005

Free Trade in Money, or Note-Shaving, the Great Cause of Fraud, Poverty and Ruin : Stringent Usury Laws, the Best Defence of the People Against Hard T

Free Trade in Money, or Note-Shaving, the Great Cause of Fraud, Poverty and

• UPC: 311837993

Diogenes's Rambles : Or, Humorous Characters of the Most Noted People at Present in the World: ... Proving That the Queen of Hungary Has the Best Title to Manhood at Last by the Chevalier Dennis Coetlogon, ...

Diogenes's Rambles

• UPC: 991824783

Baby Trouble in the Last Best West : Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939,...

• UPC: 193358692807
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 26 USD

Best in Show: Knit Your Own Zoo, Hardcover by Muir, Sally; Osborne, Joanna, B...

• UPC: 274234429465
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 15 USD

Baby Trouble in the Last Best West: Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939

• UPC: 273957957501
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD

Past Is Myself and the Road Ahead Omnibus : Two Classic Best Sellers in One V...

• UPC: 274203693669
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 15 USD

Churchill: A Study In Greatness by Best, Geoffrey

• UPC: 143380277098
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

Beginner's E-mail Book : Best Practice in Setting Up and Managing Your System...

• UPC: 362925541116
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 13 USD

The Best of Keystone Tombstones: Biographies of Famous People Buried in: New

• UPC: 282877201108
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 20 USD

Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour...

• UPC: 372933659181
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 3 USD

Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril by Abdullah II

• UPC: 283546087464
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 295 USD

The Best Day Of My Life - True Stories to In... by Giles Vickers-Jones Paperback

• UPC: 383120277689
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 5 USD