Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Iron John
A Book about Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The 25th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, with a new afterword by the author--which offers a new vision of what it is to be a man
In this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it...
A Rainbow in the Night
The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's...
Churchill
The Power of Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A collection of the best and most quoted speeches and writings of Nobel Prize-winner Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In speeches, books, and articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated...
Winston Churchill Reporting
Adventures of a Young War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India, the Sudan, and South Africa.
In those far-flung corners of the world, reporting from the front lines between 1895...
Bouts of Mania
Ali, Frazier, and Foreman--and an America on the Ropes
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Bouts of Mania describes the glorious era when Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman fought each other in every possible combination, on nearly every possible continent. In their most memorable bouts from 1971 to 1975, the three men created athletic set pieces that continue to resonate: the...
by Charles Neider
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Washington Irving (17831859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass...
Valkyrie
An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When on July 20, 1944, a bomb-boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg- exploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d'état against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged....
The World's Most Dangerous Place
Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West’s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly “streaming”...
Praying for Sheetrock
A Work of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything...
America, You Sexy Bitch
A Love Letter to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
She is a single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger, the daughter of a Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He is a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee. Meghan McCain...
Why Does E=mc2?
(And Why Should We Care?)
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The international bestseller: an introduction to the theory of relativity by the eminent physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous...
Freud's Wizard
Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The saturation of the English-speaking world with psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud's disciple, colleague, and biographer-and the man who rescued Freud from the Nazis-he led the international psychoanalytic movement, shifting its vortex from Vienna...
Having Faith
An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A brilliant writer, first-time mother, and respected biologist, Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body...
Burn Unit
Saving Lives After the Flames
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
A compelling blend of science, history and storytelling. Barbara Ravage has fashioned an enlightening, invaluable book.” -Stewart O'Nan, author of The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American TragedyThough each of us is just a spark away from being a burn victim, the public knows little and understands...