
The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service
Book
Canadian Pacific at its apex operated the most expansive and comprehensive transportation system the...

The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Book
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder...
crime non-fiction

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Book
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess...
History Crime

Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Isabella Image and Eve Rosenhaft
Book
This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence...

Enabling Genius: A Mindset for Success in the 21st Century
Book
Definition of "genius": someone who has exceptionally intellectual or creative power or other...

The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History
Book
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the...

Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dora C. Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort and Andrew M. Watsky
Book
An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around...