Overview :Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all ... Read More
Overview :A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, b... Read More
Overview :Oakland's famous and vibrant arts heritage is known throughout the country, but many people are unaware of the extent of this city's contrib... Read More
Overview :"Wonderfully, in Akashic's Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character--they die brutally. K... Read More
Overview :As many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-T... Read More
Overview :In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil ... Read More
Overview :LET US EXPLORE THE PUZZLE TOGETHER AND UNCOVER THE HIDDEN POTENTIAL THAT LIES WITHIN THE SECRETS OF THESE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.Discover the w... Read More
Overview :Had Henry Hopkins Sibley and his Confederate army troops succeeded in capturing New Mexico from the Federals, author Jerry Thompson argues, ... Read More
Overview :Includes a new Afterword by the author on the 2011 Japan Earthquake, the lessons learned, and the parallel threat to North America. A new st... Read More
Overview :Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize and Texas Institute of Letters Most Significant Scholarly Book Award "Thompson's book provides ... Read More
Overview :With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Wi... Read More