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Title: 1776
Author: David McCullough
Written by historian David McCullough, 1776 was first published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is considered a companion piece to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolution. Primarily revolving around the leadership (and often indecisiveness) of George Washington, there is also considerable attention given to King George III, General Howe, Henry Knox, and Nathanael Greene. Key Revolutionary War battles detailed in the book include the Battle of Dorchester Heights, the Battle of Long Island, and the Battle of Trenton. Interestingly, the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence is treated as a somewhat minor detail, as the main focus of the book is on military rather than political events. The book includes a number of pages of full color illustrations, including portraits and historical battlefield maps made by British engineers at the time.

Title: A Brief History of Everything
Author: Ken Wilber
In A Brief History of Everything, Wilber continues his search for the primary patterns that manifest in all realms of existence. Like Hegel in the West and Aurobindo in the East, Wilber is a thinker in the grand systematic tradition, an intellectual adventurer concerned with nothing less than the whole course of evolution, life's ultimate trajectory—in a word, everything. Combining spiritual sensitivity with enormous intellectual understanding and a style of elegance and clarity, A Brief History of Everything is a clarion call for seeing the world as a whole, much at odds with the depressing reductionism of trendy Foucault-derivative academic philosophy.

Title: A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory, to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics.

Title: A Briefer History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking,  Leonard Mlodinow
A Briefer History of Time is a popular-science book from the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow. It is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time. In this book Hawking and Mlodinow try to present quantum mechanics, string theory, and other topics in an easy way. The book also informs the reader of new frontiers of science since Hawking's previous book.

Title: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Author: Karen Armstrong
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a best-selling book by author Karen Armstrong. It describes the history of the three major monotheistic religions in detail. The book has been praised for its astounding research and deft storytelling. The book traces the evolution of the idea of God as interpreted by the great thinkers of the three monotheistic traditions or God religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, from their roots in pagan traditions of the Middle East up to the modern day.

Title: A History of the American People
Author: Paul M. Johnson
The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures, begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind. Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs.

Title: A History of Western Music
Author: Donald J. Grout,  Claude V. Palisca,  J. Peter Burkholder
This classic textbook, first written by Donald Jay Grout of Cornell U., traces the forms and modes of Western music from ancient Mesopotamia to the present, emphasizing musical styles and genres. For the new edition, Burkholder (Indiana U.) has also sought to highlight the people creating and receiving music, the choices they made, what they valued in music, and how these choices reflected both tradition and innovation. They have also incorporated more material on American jazz, popular, and other musics, while retaining the emphasis on art music.

Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space.

Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens that centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It follows the stories of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who are physically similar but very different in personality; Darnay is a romantic French aristocrat, while Carton is a cynical English barrister. The two are connected, however, by their love for the same woman, Lucie Manette.

Title: All the President's Men
Author: Bob Woodward,  Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate first break-in and ensuing Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. A film adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, was released in 1976.

Title: Bill Bryson's African Diary
Author: Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's African Diary is a 2002 book by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book details a trip Bryson took to Kenya in 2002. Bryson describes his experiences there and observations about Kenyan culture, geography, and politics, as well as his visits to poverty-fighting projects run by CARE International, to which he donated all royalties for the book.

Title: Brave Companions
Author: David McCullough
The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition.

Title: Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy is a book authored by Barbara Ehrenreich. The author coins the term collective joy to describe group events which involve music, synchronized movement, costumes, and a feeling of loss of self. There is no word in English to describe the phenomenon.

Title: Dynasties:Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
Author: David S. Landes
This is a book about family and business, success and disappointment, love and discord. Family histories are more than a rich source of instructive anecdote. The contribution of family business to economic growth and development is too often overlooked by economic historians and policymakers. The majority of firms in Europe and the United States are family-owned, contributing one-half to two-thirds of GNP and jobs.

Title: Good-Bye to All That
Author: Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves. First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahead of him, and the book deals mainly with his childhood, youth and military service.

Title: How the Irish Became White
Author: Noel Ignatiev
Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American.

Title: Jewels: A Secret History
Author: Victoria Finlay
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.

Title: John Adams
Author: David McCullough
Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough gives a complete biography of the life and times of John Adams, from his days at Harvard and his courtship of Abigail, through the American Revolution and birth of a nation, his days as Vice President and President, and ending with his reflections in retirement. Through extensive use of letters and journal entries, McCullough captures both the character of Adams and the spirit of the times in the founding days of the United States of America.

Title: Johnstown Flood
Author: David McCullough
The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough's first book, was praised by Time magazine as a meticulously researched, vivid account of one of the most stunning disasters in U.S. history.

Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.

Title: Not So Quiet
Author: Helen Zenna Smith
First published in 1930, Not So Quiet... offers a scathing firsthand account of war from the point of view of women actively engaged in it. The bite of the novel comes from Smithy's outrage at the senselessness of war, at her country's complacent patriotism (as exemplified in her mother's platitudinous encouragement and pride in the sacrifice of her children), and at her own daily contact with the blood and vomit of the wounded.

Title: Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Here is a fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman by a prize-winning biographer. In his new preface, Joseph J. Ellis discusses why Adams is enjoying a modern-day revival.

Title: Plan of Attack
Author: Bob Woodward
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush and his war council, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair and other allies, launched a pre-emptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes manoeuvring over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam.

Title: Salt: A World History
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Salt - the only rock we eat - has made a glittering, often surprising contribution to the history of mankind.

Title: Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Author: Bob Woodward
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate is a 1999 book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, written with a narrative voice while utilizing firsthand interviews and news reports for its historical basis. For the 530-page book, Woodward used extensive notes and also interviewed President Ford, President Bush's chief of staff, John Becker, and other people of focus.
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