History Books

A glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist/conservationist, Jonathan C. Slaght testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of nature.

A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg’s journals are more tour de force than diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War.

The Story of a Life beings from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, as his family is destitute, to his time as a World War I paramedic , then a journalist during the Russia revolution, His prose are energetic and lyrical filled with love of the natural world

A vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine from celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein.

The Apartment: A Century of Russian History explains the true history of 20th-century Russia through the story of a Moscow family and their apartment. Readers witness how each generation lived alongside larger social and political changes in Russia.

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia -- one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.

Catherine the Great modernized Russia through the ardent promotion of art and culture, founding the Hermitage and expanding both social and geographic borders.

From the Mongol hordes of the 13th century, the autocratic fists of successive tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's re-emergence as a superpower.

Revolution 1989 is an authoritative account, by journalist Victor Sebestyen, of the few months, and the few ordinary people, that brought down the Soviet Union, and changed the world forever.