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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage a...

A Transplant Surgeon Discusses The Pioneers, Science, And Ethical Challenges Of Organ Transplantation As Well As The Ways That Organ Transplants Have Revolu...

A Net Of Complex Currents Flowed Across Jacobean England. This Was The England Of Shakespeare, Jonson And Bacon; Of The Gunpowder Plot; The Worst Outbreak O...

Vol. 1. Citizen Of The World : The Life Of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919-1968. John English. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biogra...

A Timely, Riveting Book That Presents For The First Time An Alternative History Of 1930s Britain, Revealing How Prominent Fascist Sympathizers Nearly Succee...

What happens when a smart, young stay-at-home mom decides to go back to work and hires her Ukrainian mom to nanny her two kids for 6 years? A witty, brutall...

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, ...

"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I...

This Book Is A Modest Fragment Of A Story About The Life That Millions Of Europeans Lived Until Not So Long Ago. Perhaps It Doesn't Have Any Great Artistic ...

The Inspiring Love Story That Will Change Your Life Over one hundred years ago, an “unsinkable” luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage. More than 1,500...

A reference on British royalty, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdo...

With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England—from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionhe...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empir...

Describes the life of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, who explored India, the Near East, and Africa, went to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and intro...

The host of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible shows busy people how to keep food simple but delicious Chef Robert Irvine goes where few chefs dare...

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS sho...

Two Jewish Girls Born Six Months Apart -- Judit Grünfeld (judy Abrams) In Hungary And Eva Felsenburg (marx) In Czechoslovakia -- Are Only Children When The...

Who Is Vladimir Putin? In Mr. Putin, Russia Experts Fiona Hill And Clifford Gaddy Argue That Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, Is In Fact A Man Of Many An...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.\Born in...

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union duri...

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Mark Meadows] The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to j...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manc...

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano RooseveltCategories: History WorldWomen in History

The first authorized biography of the antarctic explorer who gave us the greatest classic of polar literatureIn February 1912, Apsley Cherry-Garrard drove a...

Excerpts From The Author's Diary, Begun When She Was Eleven, Describes Life In Sarajevo Under Siege. Zlata Filipović ; With An Introduction By Janine Di Gi...

A Biography Of Reinhard Heydrich And His Wife, Lina Von Osten Heydrich-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gov...

Offers A Detailed Look At The Life And Career Of The Famous World War Ii General, And Depicts His Accomplishments And Complex Personality. Prologue: Who Was...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

Book by Merilyn SimondsCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalGeneral

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s favorite, George Villiers, the first ...

MY LIFE - PART B President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectu...

Product Description NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam DriverThe sensational true story of murder, madn...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most ...

This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape. Categories: Hist...

An Unabridged Edition Of Anne Frank's Diary Provides Insight Into Anne's Relationship With Her MotherCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &am...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsom...

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered i...

From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), he...

**Buy the paperback version of this book and get the Kindle eBook version for FREE!**Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industr...

**Buy the Paperback version of this book and get the Kindle eBook version for FREE!**The Ford name is everywhere, even in places where you don’t see it. I...

LAST LION: ALONE bookCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable PeoplePolitical

Named one of the year's best books by the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Elm Street magazine'A letter,' wrote Emily Dickinson, 'always seemed to me like im...

Nancilu B. Burdick. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [174]-175.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalGeneral

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turne...

Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs The de...

Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true Renaissance man, Lorenzo daz...

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's Role In Launching Modern Conservationsim, Identifying The Contributions Of Such Influences As James Audubon And John Muir Whi...