Washoe County Library System

On Shelf

South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 909 LAWREN 2016
1 available

Description

"All the grim, gruesome, and gory bits of history they never teach you in school! From the exploits of American gangster Al Capone to the wars of King Richard III to the prophecies of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, this book is packed with men, women,and historical events that caused chaos and mayhem. Others included are: Vlad the Impaler of Romania, H.H. Holmes, Empress Wu Zetian of China, pirates from all over the world, Vikings, the Boston Tea...

2) No friends but the mountains: dispatches from the world's violent highlands

Author

Matloff, Judith

Publisher

Basic Books

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
355.009 MATLOF 2017
1 available

Description

"A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe--from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia--to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who want to elude authority, and their remoteness has allowed archaic...

3) The rope: a true story of murder, heroism, and the dawn of the NAACP

Author

Tresniowski, Alex

Publisher

37 INK, Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

On Shelf

Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 TRESNI 2021
1 available

Description

"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency...

4) The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century

Author

Scheidel, Walter

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

On Shelf

Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
303.6 SCHEID 2017
1 available

Description

"Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial...