Eric: 6009 books
Terra Nova
The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.
In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces....
The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A part of Harper Perennial’s special “Resistance Library” highlighting classic works that illuminate the “Age of Trump”: A boldly packaged reissue of the classic examination of dangerous nationalist political movements.
“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely...
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.
Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one...
The Dictator Next Door
The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
1177 B.C.
The Year Civilization Collapsed
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world...
by Eric Blehm
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work...
The Cool Impossible
The Running Coach from Born to Run Shows How to Get the Most from Your Miles-and from Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Featured in the book Born to Run, running coach Eric Orton offers a guide for every runner...**
Natural running is more than barefoot running. It’s about the joy of running that we were all born with and can reawaken. With a program focused on proper form, strength development, and cardiovascular...
Blank on the Map
Pioneering exploration in the Shaksgam valley and Karakoram mountains.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination … Across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"' In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains....
The Geography of Bliss
One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.
Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash...
Immortal Milk
Adventures in Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Is there a food more delightful, ubiquitous, or accessible than cheese? This book is a charming and engaging love letter to the food that Clifton Fadiman once called "milk’s leap toward immortality." Examining some cheeses we know as well as some we don’t; the processes, places, and people who...
by Eric Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks,...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of...