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Country Driving_ A Journey Thro - Peter Hessler
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in ... -
Common Sense, the Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
SUMMARY: Thomas Paine's book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and pass... -
Coco Chanel_ An Intimate Life - Lisa Chaney
The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon.Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential... -
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Sho - William Kennedy
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingw... -
Blood, Iron, and Gold - Christian Wolmar
From Publishers WeeklyThis spirited, dramatic history of the most important invention of the second millennium celebrates railroads as the central innovation of the industrial revo... -
Becoming Animal - David Abram
David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous--hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, as "daring and truly original" by Science--has become a classic of envi... -
Animal Farm and 1984 - George Orwell; Christopher Hitc
All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by th... -
Allende's Chile and the Inter-A - Tanya Harmer
"Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution... -
All That Follows - Jim Crace
From Publishers WeeklyLeonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace's surprisingly bad 10th novel (after The Pesthouse), has Walter Mitty–like dreams of being a revolutionary .... -
A Star Shall Fall - Marie Brennan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. It has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws o...