Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Philipp Frank • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyMuch has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique ...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Special Interest - ReligiousIn the Steps of St. Paul dazzlingly retraces the apostle's famed journey of faith through Israel, Greece, and Italy, usin...

• Author(s): John Prevas • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe year is 403 B.C. The Athenian philosopher Xenophon finds himself with an army of Greeks marching to what is ...

• Author(s): Lance Herdegen • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Military - United StatesThe recently discovered journal of William Ray of the Seventh Wisconsin is the most important primary...

• Author(s): Tim Riley • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - RockA unique combination of musical analysis and cultural history, Tell Me Why stands alone among Beatles books with its single-minded focus o...

• Author(s): David Hapgood • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralMonte Cassino opens in the cold Italian winter of 1943-44. Germany would lose the...

• Author(s): Glenn Stout • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: GolfFrom his appearance on the Mike Douglas Show at age three (he putted for Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart) to his winning the U.S ...

• Author(s): Bruce Schulman • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturySweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant exa...

• Author(s): Wynton Marsalis • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicThe thrill of sitting in a club or concert hall hearing jazz being made is familiar to most fans. But what if you could immerse yourself in t...

• Author(s): Michael Bracewell • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalHe's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Pa...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesH.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome--the fabled era of La Dolce Vita--remains an indispensable guide to...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesH. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since child...

• Author(s): Donald Clarke • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicCertainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autob...

• Author(s): Russell Beatie • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)There have been many studies of the generals who commanded the Union's victorious...

• Author(s): Philip Tucker • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The fight for Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, is forever etched in the annals of...

• Author(s): Steven H. Newton • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand Germa...

• Author(s): John Cannan • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)On the morning of May 12, 1864, the site of the daring Union assault on the center o...

• Author(s): John Cannan • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)A spectacular early morning underground explosion followed by bloody hand-to-hand co...

• Author(s): Edward G. Longacre • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MilitaryThe deadly accurate guns of the Union artillery were the most feared weapons on Civil War battlefields. General H...

• Author(s): Chad Millman • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Gambling - SportsOne gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to ma...

• Author(s): Bernard Fall • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarFrom the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam'...

• Author(s): Jan Bondeson • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: World - General"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed. A ce...

• Author(s): Frances Hill • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)This acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who f...

• Author(s): Herbert A. Werner • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically signi...

• Author(s): Dennis McDougal • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, PublishersHere is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only t...

• Author(s): Adam Nossiter • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThe history is well known: On June 12, 1963, Mississippi's courageous NAACP chie...

• Author(s): Jonathan Lethem • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralIt's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 vol...

• Author(s): Herman Knell • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralHerman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds o...

• Author(s): John Hairr • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In March of 1781, Nathaniel Greene's militia and cavalry withstood a punishing fr...

• Author(s): Steven H. Newton • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The opening engagement of the battle of Gettysburg was crucial in determining t...

• Author(s): Mary Daughtry • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MilitaryWilliam Henry Fitzhugh Lee, called "Rooney" by his family, was born the second son of the famous commander and general...

• Author(s): Laurence Rees • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Jap...

• Author(s): Jan Morris • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesA book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste. This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has al...

• Author(s): Nick Kent • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - RockA smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you...

• Author(s): Alan Baker • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - RomeCondemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator ...

• Author(s): Nancy Schoenberger • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: WomenYou can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of ...

• Author(s): Dave Dameron • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside str...

• Author(s): Jerry Keenan • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn August of 1862, the Santee (Dakota) Sioux tribe launched a spontaneous revolt against their whit...

• Author(s): Robert Greenfield • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicThirty years ago, the Rolling Stones swept America, taking Exile on Main Street to Main Streets across the nation. Everyone held their brea...

• Author(s): James Weldon Johnson • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Religious - ChristianThis stirring collection of Negro spirituals, edited by the great Negro poet James Weldon Johnson ...

• Author(s): Fred C. Kelly • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyWith little formal education and even fewer business skills, Wilbur and Orville Wright solved the scientific mystery that de...

• Author(s): Arthur Fellig Weegee • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralFrom the Back CoverWeegee's First book, 'Naked City' (1953), was a runaway success an...

• Author(s): Humphrey Carpenter • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: ComedyA Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyo...

• Author(s): William Robert Faith • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsReporter: "What's it like to be Bob Hope?"Hope: "I wouldn't have it any other way."F...

• Author(s): Stanislaus Joyce • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresStanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, ...

• Author(s): Sue Graham Mingus • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicTonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a journalist in Euro...

• Author(s): Dennis McNally • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Literary Figures"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting ...

• Author(s): Michael Streissguth • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicJohnny Cash is a living icon, one of the defining country musicians of the century and patriarch of a clan that rules as country royalty. He has also...

• Author(s): Mick Conefrey • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MountaineeringImagine a world without IMAX or Gore-tex, before North Face, a world without mobile phones or high-altitude Internet links, super-ligh...

• Author(s): David Ritz • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicThe voice of Jimmy Scott is one of the world's most mesmerizing instruments, transcending gender and age. But its beauty is inextricably entwined with pain, h...

• Author(s): Richard A. Sauers • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-...

• Author(s): John Cox • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)South of the town of Gettysburg, Union troops take possession of the wooded heights at ...

• Author(s): Terry Jones • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The battle of Gettysburg included many dramatic and controversial moments, several o...

• Author(s): Matt Groening • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralIt's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volu...

• Author(s): James Lee Conrad • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The Confederacy's only national naval academy was anchored in Virginia's James ...

• Author(s): Wayne Mahood • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: HistoricalJames S. Wadsworth was a successful lawyer and influential New York politician when the Civil War broke out. His weal...

• Author(s): Jeremiah Curtin • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaThe Mongols were the superpower of their day, erupting out of Central Asia in 1206 to conquer an empire s...

• Author(s): William Nack • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: EssaysWilliam Nack is widely acknowledged as one of the finest sports writers of the past half-century. He has won the prestigi...

• Author(s): Richard Pyle • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire ove...

• Author(s): Thomas R. Brooks • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe British had a song for it: "Oh, we are the D-Day Dodgers," based on a comm...