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Dark Sun
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
2025 || Paperback || Richard Rhodes || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
Tells the story of the making of the H-bomb and reveals how it created a nuclear stalemate that lasted forty years.
Far From the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
2025 || Paperback || Andrew Solomon || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *
* WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *
This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so—“a brave, beautiful...
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
2025 || Paperback || Robert D. Putnam || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
*The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix!*
Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America.
Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in le...
John Adams
2025 || Paperback || David McCullough || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
A biography of the extraordinary man who became the second president of the United States, this book traces John Adams' adventurous life and spirited rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and encompasses both the American Revolution and the birth of the young republic.
Gentleman Revolutionary
Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
2025 || Paperback || Richard Brookhiser || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris.
His story is one that should be known by every American -- after all, he drafted the Constitu...
Lessons of History
2025 || Paperback || Will Durant e.a. || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
Available for the first time in paperback, The Lessons of History is Will and Ariel Durant's celebrated collection on the themes that define history
The Longest Day
June 6, 1944
2025 || Paperback || Cornelius Ryan || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
This classic bestseller--back in print to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day--offers a brilliant, authentic, gripping account of the hours that preceded and followed the Allied invasion of Normandy. "Fifty years from now the history of D-Day, I am sure, will lean heavily on this book".--John Toland, New York Times Book Review.
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Origins of the Second World War
2025 || Paperback || A.J.P. Taylor || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
From influential British historian A.J.P. Taylor, a reprint of his influential text The Origins of the Second World War. Controversial for his thesis that Hitler was an opportunist with no thorough plan, The Origins of the Second World War is an extensive exploration of the international politics and foreign policy that lead up to the one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century.
Published in 1961, The Origins of the Second World War is a classic of modern history. A.J.P. Taylor'...
Africa in History
Themes and Outlines
2025 || Paperback || Basil Davidson || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
Prior to the original publication of "Africa in History", the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization", applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe and America, as well as the development of specific areas, tribes and cultures. From accounts of t...
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
2025 || Paperback || Katherine Streeter e.a. || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.