Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Adrift
A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder...
Garcia
A Signpost To New Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone. Garcia...
The Arthritis Helpbook
A Tested Self-Management Program for Coping with Arthritis and Fibromyalgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The Arthritis Helpbook is the world's leading guide to coping with joint pain, and has been used by more than 600,000 readers over its twenty years in print. It succeeds because of its tested advice, its hundreds of useful hints, and its emphasis on self-management-helping people with arthritis and...
by Bruce Lansky
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Select the perfect name for your new baby!
Not sure what to name your child?
Torn between a traditional family name and an up-and-coming name?
Or maybe you don't even know where to start?
Let 25,000+ Baby Names be your guide to finding the right name! This book lets you easily scan boys'...
Decoding the Heavens
A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient...
The Sugar Season
A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art--the sweetest harvest, maple syrup...
How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "sugar parties" and the delicacy...
What Is America?
A Short History of the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we've traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks...
The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich
The SS ""Butcher of Prague""
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The extraordinary account of one of the most daring World War II missions, as told in the movie Anthropoid
If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (19041942)-chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution,...
Hell from the Heavens
The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This is "naval history at its best" (Bruce Henderson)--the story of the greatest kamikaze attack of World War II
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest...
The Last Battle
When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops
May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble,...
The End of the Old Order
Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
In this monumental account and brilliant new analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe, Frederick W. Kagan, distinguished historian and military policy expert, reveals the complex interaction of continental politics and war that dominated Europe in the early nineteenth century. Using hitherto untapped...
Tin Can Titans
The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the sailors and exploits of the war's most decorated destroyer squadron
When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it...
Horror In The East
Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World...
The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare
A Tale of Forgery and Folly
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was...