Over the past few months, we have made
some of our best-selling books newly available in digital formats. A few weeks ago we talked about
six of them. Here are six more! As with the previous selection, all of these
are great reads that would be perfect as travel companions.
Written by the president of the St. Louis Zoo, Sailing with Noah
is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P.
Bonner, who was trained as an anthropologist and came to the zoo world quite by
accident, shares some of the most compelling stories ever told about
contemporary zoos. From the day-to-day aspects of caring for some of the
world’s most exotic creatures to the role of zoos as field conservation
organizations, this book takes the reader on
an incredible journey—one that begins within the zoo and continues around
the globe.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt's health
deteriorated in the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention of
1944, party leaders confronted a dire situation. Given the inevitability
of the president's death during a fourth term, the choice of a running mate was of profound importance. The Democrats needed a man they could trust: Harry Truman. In Choosing Truman
Robert H. Ferrell tells an engrossing tale of
ruthless ambition, secret meetings, and party politics.Startling in its conclusions, impeccable in its research, this is an engrossing, behind-the-scenes
look at the making of the nation's thirty-third president.
Sin in the City examines three
urban revivals in turn-of-the-century Chicago to show how revivalists
negotiated that era’s perceived racial, sexual, and class threats. Rather than approaching these events merely as
the achievements of persuasive men, Thekla Ellen Joiner views them as
choreographed rituals reinforcing a moral order defined by ideals of
femininity, masculinity, and racial purity. Sin in the City shows that
the legacy of the Third Awakening lives on today in the religious right’s
sociopolitical activism; crusade for family values; disparagement of feminism;
and promotion of spirituality in middle-class, racial, and cultural terms.
In A Second Home, Sue Thomas examines early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important schools were in taming the frontier. Drawing on oral histories, as well as private diaries and archival research, she offers firsthand accounts of what education was like—including descriptions of the furnishings, teaching methods, and school-day activities in one-room log schools. With its remembrances of simpler times, A Second Home tells of community gatherings and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games.
More new e-books are featured on the
Press’s Special Offers page for the
month of June, along with a selection of our best-selling e-books and a special
coupon offer.
You can buy any of these e-books from
Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Chegg, Ebrary, EBSCO, Google,
Kobo, OverDrive, Sony, and the Press’s own web
page,
where you will also find many more e-books available.