20th century

"A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--Provided by publisher.

The night stalkers are some of the most elite members of the U.S. Army. Their dangerous missions frequently take them behind enemy lines.

Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

Presents a retrospective of the Canadian art movement known as the Group of Seven, including artist Tom Thomson, as well as three other members added over the years; featuring four hundred works of art, organized by subject, with introductory text.

Tells the story of eight young people who, inspired by workshops on nonviolence, decided to become involved in the fight against segregation during the 1960s, beginning with staged sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters, and progressing to ever more dangerous actions on behalf of the civil rights movements.

"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--Provided by publisher.

"The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the science behind Shackleton's epic Antarctic journey, and discusses how weather patterns determined the fate of Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, and how the crew used their few resources to survive on the ice.

"Married foreign correspondents John and Frances Gunther intimately understood that it isn't only impersonal, economic forces that propel history, bringing readers so close to the front lines of history that they could feel how personal pathologies became the stuff of geopolitical crises. Together with other reporters of the Lost Generation--American journalists H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson--the Gunthers slipped through knots of surveillance and ignored orders of expulsion in order to expose the mass executions in Badajoz during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, the millions of dollars that Joseph Goebbels salted away abroad, and the sexual peccadillos of Hitler's brownshirts. They conjured what it was like to ride with Hitler in an airplane ; broke the inside story about Mussolini's claustrophobia and superstitions ; and verified the hypnotic impression Stalin made when he walked into a room. But just as they were transforming journalism, it was also transforming them: who they loved and betrayed, how they raised their children and coped with death. Over the course of their careers they would popularize bringing the private life into public view, not only in their reporting on the outsized figures of their day, but in what they revealed about their own (and each other's) intimate experiences as well"--Provided by publisher.