Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Forever Young
Photographs of Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
In 1964, Douglas Gilbert was hired by Look magazine to photograph a young up-and-coming musician named Bob Dylan. Gilbert snapped over 900 of the most candid shots ever taken of Dylan, less than a year before he became completely inaccessible to the public. The photos, beautifully composed, capture...
Sharon Tate
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon...
The Sound of No Hands Clapping
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there has never been a better time to savor this laugh-out-loud memoir from everyone's favorite professional failurist.” The Sound of No Hands Clapping...
Last Chance For Victory
Robert E. Lee And The Gettysburg Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Long after nearly fifty thousand soldiers shed their blood there, serious misunderstandings persist about Robert E. Lee's generalship at Gettysburg. What were Lee's choices before, during, and after the battle? What did he know that caused him to act as he did? Last Chance for Victory addresses these...
American Queen
The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War ""Belle of the North"" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its Most Beautiful” and Most Intriguing” lists every year.
Kate Chase, the charismatic daughter of Abraham Lincoln's treasury secretary, enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. As her...
The Quotable Hitchens
From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk...
Abraham Lincoln
His Speeches And Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces-the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation-but hundreds of lesser-known gems....
Explaining Hitler
The Search for the Origins of His Evil, updated edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically...
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields--as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier--and he worked throughout World War I and after...
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard
A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard traces one man’s adventure-filled journey through today’s Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into the past.
Setting...
Reading Comics
How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why and how. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from...
The Last Viking
The Life of Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the...
Warlords
An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosev
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
With innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the eyes and minds of its four great leaders-Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. While their nations battled in the field, these warlords of the twentieth century waged...
by Joan Borysenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The New York Times bestseller -- "practical, easy to understand, and based on solid research that you can trust...an inspiring exploration of what it means to be fully human" (Andrew Weil, MD)
Based on Dr. Borysenko's groundbreaking work nearly thirty years ago at the Mind/Body linic...