Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
American Insurgents, American Patriots
The Revolution of the People
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were...
A Glorious Defeat
Mexico and Its War with the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating civil...
Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies...
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium—in...
by J. Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
A Slate Best Book of 2014
The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States
As chief justice of the U.S....
Bottled Lightning
Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium—a metal half as dense...
The Great Delusion
A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should—even that they must—expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present...
The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine
1945 - 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
"In a cogent study, [Smith] explains how the U.S. molded the U.N. Charter to bar the U.N. from political involvement in the West." - Publishers Weekly
When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans...
Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve...
Mordecai
An Early American Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century
Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront of a new way of exploring our past, one that follows the course of national events through the relationships that speak most immediately to us—between...
Strange Victory
Hitler's Conquest of France
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940.
Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his...
Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always...
But Will the Planet Notice?
How Smart Economics Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes...
Competition
The Birth of a New Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The Mathematical Theory of Games Sheds Light On A Wide Range of Competitive Activities
What do chess-playing computer programs, biological evolution, competitive sports, gambling, alternative voting systems, public auctions, corporate globalization, and class warfare have in common? All are...