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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
By Stephen Walker. 2005
A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August…
1945, a five-ton bomb--dubbed "Little Boy" by its creators--was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race. repercussions can be felt to this very day.Submarines under Ice: The U.S. Navy's Polar Operations
By Marion D. Williams. 1998
Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
By Milton Meltzer. 1988
Between the years 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler organized the Murder of six million Jews while the world looked on…
silently. But not all people stood back in fear. In every Nazioccupied Country, at every level of society, there were non-Jews who had the courage to resist. From the king of Denmark, refusing to force Jewish Danes to wear yellow stars, to the Dutch student, registering Jewish babies as Gentiles and hiding children in her home, a small number of people had the strength to reject the inhumanity they were ordered to support. Here are their stories: thrilling, terrifying, and most of all, inspiring. For in the horror that was the Holocaust, some human decency could still shine through. Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor BookSeize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
By Adam Nicolson. 2000
In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to…
a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's "Seize the Fire" is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle; it asks the questions: Why did the winners win? What was it about the British, their commanders and their men, their beliefs and their ambitions, that took them to such overwhelming victoryFor twenty years, Stanley Bing has offered insight, wisdom, and advice. In one essential volume, here is all you need…
to know to master your career, your life, and, when necessary, other weaker life formsSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr. 1977
The hardest race of Sadako's life... the race against time. Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic the star of…
her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, an aftereffect of the atomic bomb that fell on her city when she was only an infant, Sadako approaches her illness as she did her running with irrepressible spirit. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan. "An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable." BooklistA Vietcong Memoir
By Truong Nhu Tang, David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai. 1985
This book recounts the experiences of a non-Communist participant in the Vietnamese national resistance to foreign domination, as urban organizer…
and participant in the NLF, and the author's feelings of betrayal by the Communists.Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2005
In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and…
often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up... But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members. Newbery Medal Honor book and Sibert Honor bookA Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
By Christopher Hitchens. 2003
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
By Dan Ariely. 2008
We all think we make smart, rational choices, right? Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible forces…
skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes, we make the same types of mistakes. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable, making us predictably irrational. Ariely explains how to break through these patterns of thought to make better decisions.Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
By Susan Strasser. 1999
(back of book) Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in…
the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture the trash it produces and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, everything possible was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, "swill children" collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. In the last hundred years, that way of life has been replaced by mass consumption, disposable goods, and waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Strasser charts the triumph of "disposable" goods paper cups, toilet paper, packaged food those signature products of modern life. And she shows how Americans became hooked on convenience, fashion, and constant technological change as the mountains of garbage rose higher and higher. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.Hiroshima
By John Hersey. 1973
Memories and tales from the survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. 37 years later,…
Hersey went back to Japan. The final chapter is what he found there.On War
By Carl Von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham.
Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
By Scott O'Grady, Michael French. 1997
While flying his F-16 in Bosnia, O'Grady was shot down. His plane exploded and he parachuted down into enemy territory.…
This is how he evaded capture with little water and no food.Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
By Robert H. Frank. 2007
[Back Cover] Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars,…
houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book exploring the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Drawing from up-to-date economic data and everyday examples, Frank compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By John Perkins. 2004
This is the story of John Perkins and his involvement in the behind the scenes business and political work as…
U.S corporations have attempted to dominate and control the world economy. This story crosses many administrations and how John was involved in major policies since 1970. These are his experiences and he reveals the underhanded ways we have taken over many national economies world wide.The Iraq Study Group Report
By Sandra Day O'Connor, Lee H. Hamilton, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, Alan K. Simpson, James A. Baker III, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Edwin Meese III.
...and a Hard Rain Fell
By John Ketwig. 2002
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family
By Yoshiko Uchida. 1982
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
By Edward T. Linenthal, Tom Engelhardt. 1996