History
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Hardback
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Hardback
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Hardback
A Pulitzer Prize winner's masterful history of the American Civil War and its reverberations across the continent
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Hardback
A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial power but by sheer mayhem