Adam: 4614 books
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.
Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative...
The Stormy Present
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
by Adam LeBor
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
A profoundly human take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seen through the eyes of six families, three Arab and three Jewish.
The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the "Bride of Palestine," one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean....
Better Day Coming
Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in the United States. Beginning with...
Best of Rivals
Joe Montana, Steve Young, and the Inside Story behind the NFL's Greatest Quarterback Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the huddle to deliver the real story behind the rivalry-when Joe Montana and Steve Young battled on and off the field and forged one of the finest football dynasties...
Hail to the Redskins
Gibbs, the Diesel, the Hogs, and the Glory Days of D.C.'s Football Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
At last, the definitive account of the Redskins’ championship decade
Based on more than ninety original interviews, here is the rollicking chronicle of the famed Washington Redskins teams of the Joe Gibbs years—one of the most remarkable and unique runs in NFL history. From 1981 to 1992,...
Missing Out
In Praise of the Unlived Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are
All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable...
by Adam Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Despite a global recession, Englishman Adam Goldstein felt 2008 was the perfect time to invest in his lifelong passion. So he sold his flat and left his job and girlfriend in London for American football.Goldstein's goal was to achieve what no other fan of American football has accomplished: to attend...
You Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married)
Looking for Love in the Age of Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Fast approaching the age when bachelors go from seeming curious to seeming weird, Oscar-nominated documentarian Dana Adam Shapiro set out across the country with a tape recorder in search of modern answers to an age-old question:
Why does love die—and what can we do to prevent it from happening?
It...
Emblems of the Passing World
Poems after Photographs by August Sander
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics
Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August...
An Honourable Englishman
The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp...
Hear the Train Blow
The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's...
by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller!
Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in this smart, funny, heartfelt collaboration about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or...