Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4359+6643 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711541 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1654465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682846 This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743324 In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost planes crew. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711482 From the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court comes this fascinating book about the history and evolution of the highest court in the land. Out of Order sheds light on the centuries of change and upheaval that transformed the Supreme Court from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institution that thrives and endures today. Justice OConnor weaves together stories and lessons from the history of the Court, charting turning points and pivotal moments that have helped define our nations progress, and provides a rare glimpse into the Supreme Courts inner workings: how cases are chosen for hearing; the personal relationships that exist among the Justices; and the customs and traditions, both public and private, that bind one generation of jurists to the next.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704110 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743606 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742175 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704078 In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year, mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. and Europe in the summer of 1816. The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704401 Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the funny tanks which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang; and Captain Johnny Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a creeping barrage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713747 On November 14, 1889, two young female journalists raced against one another, determined to outdo Jules Vernes fictional hero and circle the globe in less than 80 days. The dramatic race that ensued would span 28,000 miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696388 Today, wildland fire is everybodys business, from the White House to the fireground. Wildfires have grown bigger, more intense, more destructive--and more expensive. Federal taxpayers, for example, footed most of the $16 million bill for fighting the 2006 Esperanza Fire in Southern California, which marked the first time that an entire five-man engine crew was killed by fire, as well as the first time that an arsonist was successfully prosecuted for murder for setting a wildland fire.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738963 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738255 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736309 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704560 An expos of Detroit, icon of Americas lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his familys, and his own. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nations poorest. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city, and shares an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696504 Divided into 11 chapters, The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia looks at every aspect of our heads of state and presidential history. Many of the questions are accompanied with photographs of artifacts from the Smithsonians collections. The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia is sure to puzzle the trivia buff and presidential expert alike! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739122 A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of The Greatest Generation reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740023 For nearly fifty years she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. Kirschner brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion; from the post-Civil War years to World War II, and from New York to the Arizona Territory to old Hollywood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734638 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738259 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1563012 Pulitzer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career, describing Johnsons volatile relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy during the fight they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, through Johnsons unhappy vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedys assassination, his victories over the budget and civil rights, and the eroding trap of Vietnam. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669302 Master of the Mountain, Henry Wienceks eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jeffersons papers--opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jeffersons world.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683052 A readable analysis of 25 momentous presidential speeches that provides context and understanding of events and history, illustrated with facsimiles of supporting documents, notes, and drafts that together formed the final speech. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674791 Examines the political life of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, including how he was elected, the corruption within his office, and the evidence presented during his federal trial that resulted in a fourteen year prison term. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681481 A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the worlds busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1650581 In previous works the author has written powerfully about the relationship between personality and politics. This book represents the culmination of this approach to political history. Having written widely on civil rights and womens history, the author brings the themes of all his scholarship together in this book about the Clintons co-presidency, two people committed to both sex and race equality. From the beginning, he argues, the personal chemistry between the Clintons shaped definitively their political careers. She was instrumental in his triumphs as Arkansas governor and saved his presidential candidacy by standing with him during the Gennifer Flowers sex scandal. He responded by delegating presidential powers to her that no other First Lady had ever exercised. Often tempestuous, their relationship had as many lows as it did highs, but the trajectory of the Clintons political lives can only be understood through the prism of their personal relationship. Full of insights about health care, Kenneth Starr, and welfare reform, this work gives texture and depth to the Clintons lives, including the extent to which the Lewinsky scandal finally freed Hillary to become a politician in her own right and return to the consensus reformer she had been in college and law school. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644636 This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britains attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544885 A narrative account of the twentieth presidents political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bells failed attempt to save him from an assassins bullet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630238 Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. When his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, cracks down on organized crime, the list of those who have it in for the President grows. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down, and the nation begins its slide into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682326 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679437 The Eighty-Dollar Champion tells the dramatic odyssey of a horse called Snowman, saved from the slaughterhouse by a young Dutch farmer named Harry. Together, Harry and Snowman went on to become Americas show-jumping champions, winning first prize in Madison Square Garden. Set in the mid- to late-1950s, this book captures the can-do spirit of a Cold War immigrant who believed--and triumphed--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602348 A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562761 From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576297 A biography of Thomas Jeffersons eldest daughter looks at her life as hostess at the Presidents House and Monticello, where she debated such issues as slavery, religion, and democracy and was known for her grace and sincerity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682426 The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhowers inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed and to this day the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The worlds most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for historys favor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527335 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672183 First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyers involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660579 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1395416 Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656591 A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624297 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653798 A journalist draws on three decades of firsthand experience to profile contemporary Saudi Arabia, offering insight into its leaders, citizens, cultural complexities, and international prospects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672115 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War. The battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe; from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518821 Writings culled from the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates have been assembled to offer a view of the iconic metropolis of New York. Includes excerpts from the writings of Henry Hudson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Andy Warhol, and many others http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1598006 From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674344 Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918. Delving deep into the motivations, horrific experiences, and ultimate fates of this Harvard-educated quintet--and by extension, of the brilliant young officer class that left its collegiate and postcollegiate pursuits to enlist in the army and lead Americas rough-and-ready doughboys--Five Lieutenants presents a unique, timeless, and fascinating account of citizen soldiers at war and of the price these extraordinary men paid while earnestly giving all they had in an effort to end the war to end all wars. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1572684 #1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck provides readers with the truth about the issues the media and politicians are scared to touch.This year, America will face one of the most important elections in history. But in the whirlwind of all the debates, attack ads, and super-PAC money, something that Americans used to hold in high regard has been lost: the truth. Glenn Beck believes that those who control the information--from the media to our politicians--are scared to tell the public the truth because of narrow, selfish interests, such as an impact on their ratings, or lobbying agendas, or re-election campaigns. People and organizations have agendas-- but the truth does not. In Cowards, Beck provides a shockingly honest assessment of issues, ranging from border violence to Shariah law, from George Soros and the threat of economic terrorism to Frances Fox Piven and her strategy for collapsing our welfare system. Beck delivers the unvarnished truth about these little-covered topics. By the end, it will become clear why Beck often likes to quote President Garfield: The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667945 Describes the ranger training and direct-action missions undertaken by the young warriors deployed in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687488 An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1483025 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616026 Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, Garbo, and a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time--who would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitlers army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety on 6 June 1944, D-Day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623963 A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742943 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1440786 This book is an account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings. On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and eighteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head. The auhtor, a fifth generation Arizonan and longtime friend of Giffordss and a field organizer on her Congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizonas political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen. He discusses the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing markets boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration. He offers a revealing portrait of the Southwestern state at a critical moment in history, and as a symbol of the nations discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629598 The Lone Assassin is a powerfully gripping tale that takes you back to 1939, as you follow Elser from the Munich Beer Hall, across the border, and sadly, to the concentration camp where his heroic life ended.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595180 Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between Saint Thomas Becket and Englands greatest medieval king, Henry II, separating truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casting doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Beckets seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667973 An epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627995 A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for womens suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547301 Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544182 With newly commissioned artwork, Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic is a deluxe reproduction of the 1912 memorial edition edited by the great descriptive writer Marshall Everett and published immediately after the even occurred. This collectible volume gives a sobering account of the disaster, detailing exciting escapes from death and acts of heroism not equaled in ancient or modern times.--P. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671818 In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545405 Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678922 Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675071 Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671821 A companion to the ten-part documentary series outlines provocative arguments against official American historical records to reveal the origins of conservatism and the obstacles to progressive change. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426727 In the spring of 1865, Americas Civil War finally comes to an end, In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth - charismatic ladies man and impenitent racist - murders Lincoln at Fords Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues, ending in a fiery shootout and several court-ordered executions. With an unforgettable cast of characters, vivid historical detail, and page-turning action, this is history that reads like a thriller. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480495 A dynamic way to understand success and failure, through the life of one of historys greatest generals. Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents made--on the battlefield and elsewhere in life--offer lessons about our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were 2,000 years ago. A big-new-idea book inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores our triumphs and disasters by examining the decisions made by people--including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton, and Paul Czanne--who learned from their mistakes. By showing why some overcome failure and others succumb to it, and why some fall victim to success while others thrive on it, Kluth demonstrates how to recognize the seeds of success within our own failures and the threats of failure hidden in our successes.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1256617 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272194 The bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitlers rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes Americas first ambassador to Hitlers Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262764 Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a fascinating story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426655 Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empresss life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1389283 Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newtons rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1245670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392843 The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore Americas greatness. What happened to the America I thought I knew? he writes. Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century. Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of dimished expectations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392218 Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209821 What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482931 Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645220 In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book, the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age, fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336179 Snapshots of the U.S.s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation. Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldnt imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 cant imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street corner. Every August, the Mindset List highlights the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of that years incoming college class. Now this fascinating book extends the Mindset List approach to dramatize what it was like to grow up for every American generation since 1880, showcasing the remarkable changes in what Americans have considered normal about the world around them. Expands Tom McBride and Ron Niefs popular annual Mindset Lists to explore the mindset of nine generations of Americans, from 1880 to the future high school graduates of 2030. Offers a novel and absorbing way to understand the frame of reference of Americans through history, whether its the high school grads of 1918, who viewed riding an elevator as a thrill second only to roller coasters, or those of 2009, who have always thought of friend as an active verb. Puts a human face on the evolution of historical changes related to technology, the struggle for rights and equality, the calamities of war and depression, and other areas. The annual Mindset List garners extensive media attention, including on Today, The Early Show, the NBC Nightly News, CNN, and Fox as well as in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and hundreds of international publications. Whatever your own generational mindset, this book will give you an entertaining and important new tool for understanding the unique perspective and experience of Americans over more than a hundred and fifty years--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213657 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375778 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1367538 David McCullough chronicles the lives of American artists and scientists who studied in Paris between 1830 and 1900, and who, ultimately, changed America because of their experiences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392219 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1401296 In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitlers administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitlers public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolfs Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Brauns cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304917 A history of the Battle of the Atlantic describes the events in the spring of 1943 when a handful of American, British, and Canadian sailors successfully fought back against the German U-boats that threatened to cut off resupply lines between the U.S. and Britain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1259812 Documents the Dalai Lamas flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272210 McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1378343 The true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1373625 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630174 Overview: The Definitive One-Volume History of the American Civil War. The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the pivotal conflict of the nations history. It was a war defined by savage brutality, untold human costs, and monumental political crises that left the literal and social landscape of the nation forever changed. One hundred fifty years later, it continues to hold a powerful grip on the American psyche. In A Short History of the Civil War, noted historian James L. Stokesbury dramatically and concisely chronicles the important events leading up to the war and, using maps, recounts its decisive battles while describing the strategies and tactics of the Norths and Souths prominent commanders. Drawing on fascinating details and little-known facts, Stokesbury also brings to life the generals-Grant, Lee, Hooker, McClellan, Jackson-and the unsung heroes of this great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393438 Released in time for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, nearly 30 stories from NPR reflect on the deadliest war in human history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1476684