5149 results for '"Richardson, James H.'

In eighteenth-century Britain, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause for twenty-five years. They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade,...

A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood, updated to include newer buildings and more classic favorites.All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to...

Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years? In answering this...

The first complete picture of the African American experience in the Vietnam WarThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the...

From the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight...

A devastating critique of our failure to prepare students for citizenship--and a roadmap to a better way. America's Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young...

A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market—a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.On...

"Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In...

"If it bleeds, it leads." The phrase captures television news directors' famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true...

Five favorite Pete the Kitty My First I Can Reads in one book from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Kimberly and James Dean! Join Pete the Kitty as he helps a friend, visits the...

In the newest Wolfe-family adventure from James Carlos Blake, Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business--some legitimate and some less so--for their family when they stumble...

Here at last is the long-awaited sequel to James Douglass's bestselling work, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. That book, unlike most books that posit a conspiracy in JFK's...

A philosopher journeys back to the mystics to learn how to live with uncertainty in the twenty-first century How do we live when we don't know what to believe, or who to believe, or how we could...

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIMEThe essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own...

A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian...

How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "Really one should write philosophy only as one writes...

Making Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time--and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible. Long...

The third and penultimate book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, A Dragon of Black Glass is a tale of relentless adventure and the struggle for...

Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals. But in today's divided public...