Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like
Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10 looks […]
Tag Archives: history
The Destruction of Ancient Palmyra
Palmyra, Syria: It’s a front-page story in the New York Times (April 5) and an online photo essay of how the ancient city’s archeological treasures, the remnants of a 2000 […]
Gift Books 2014: Best of the Best!
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2014. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science or […]
Berlin: The Wall and The City
Berlin as a city has a storied identity – as a canvas for art, entertainment, hedonism, evil, political rhetoric, a place that created world events and has reinvented itself after […]
D Day at 70: June 6 2014
Most of us have lost our living links to D Day 70 years ago– our (grand) dads, uncles, cousins and family friends. Today I am time traveling to Normandy, still […]
Civil War Gettysburg 150th Anniversary
July 1-3 1863: The Largest Battle in American History in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 6,000 dead, 50,000+ injured and wounded, lives changed forever. Today in History (July 1) The Battle of Gettysburg Begins […]
CURRENT & COMING: Events & Exhibitions
February 15-18: Great Backyard Bird Count: Don’t miss out on the fun. Everyone everywhere can participate providing you have 15 minutes and an internet connection. GBBC web site See the […]
Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines
The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]
Books Galore: Language & the Written Word
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion, Andrew Robinson.(Oxford University) 272 pp. $29.95. A fervent early 19th-century Frenchman, a competitive expeditionary personality, and Egyptologist (a field he helped […]
Books Galore: Prize Winners
Five outstanding recent works acknowledged with national and international journalism and literary awards. Before you buy, read the review, listen to an author interview, or scan an excerpt. Mumbai (India) […]
