History

Puglia Is The Heel Stretching Down From The Spur Of The Italian Boot. It Boasts Very Beautiful Landscapes, Wonderful Old Cities With Romanesque Cathedrals, ...

Criticizes The Way History Is Presented In Current Textbooks, And Suggests A Fresh And More Accurate Approach To Teaching American HistoryCategories: Educat...

• Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow examines legendary cataclysms and shows how we are about to overcome the collective fear they have instilled in us...

A young Canadian woman describes her decision to seek out adventure before settling down to a conventional life, her journey to the tiny Buddhist kingdom of...

The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals o...

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride thro...

Is Civilization Teetering On The Edge Of A Cliff? Or Are We Just Climbing Higher Than Ever? Most People Who Read The News Would Tell You That 2017 Is One Of...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a full-color book celebrating the world's most breathtaking, exciting, and astonishing attraction...

Take a spectacular armchair voyage to one of earth's most magnificent and ancient sites--shown in a resplendent oversized volume, lavishly illustrated with ...

Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu Has Witnessed Some Of The Worst Crimes People Can Inflict On Others. So Wherever He Goes, He Inevitably Gets Asked Th...

The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era,...

A Riveting Account Of How Christian Fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, And Conservative Catholics Have Joined Forces In A Battle Against Their Progressive Coun...

This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how they live...

"illuminating . . . Absolutely Fascinating." —the New York Times "first-rate. . . . An Important Addition To The Dead Sea Scrolls Literature. . . .  shank...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...

This Instant New York Times Bestseller—“a Jaw-dropping, Fast-paced Account” (new York Post) Recounts Seal Team Operator Robert O’neill’s Incredibl...

Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-cra...

Reinterpreting the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas–Klotz offers a radical new translation of the wo...

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they...

The World Before Abraham -- The Journey Of Abraham -- Joseph In Egypt -- The Exodus -- The Settlement In Canaan -- Kingdom Of David And Solomon -- The Fall ...

Philomena by Martin Sixsmith, isbn 9781447245223Categories: History United States20th Century

From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays that comes more than 20 years after Joe Carter's World ...

Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stacespent hours writing a single word – Eternity – on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission to...

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has h...

A 12-week New York Times Bestseller Helen Rappaport Paints A Compelling Portrait Of The Doomed Grand Duchesses. —people Magazine The Public Spoke Of The S...

Scotland's history gets a rewrite by archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. How accurate are the accounts of Mary Queen of Scots's tragic demise or Bonnie...

Review\Moseley has a crack journalist's nose for the evocative quotation or the vivid fact that encapsulates a larger truth. -- Thomas Simpson ― Chicago T...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the aut...

Love your crazy family? These hilarious and heartwarming stories introduce you to the 101 wacky, yet lovable, relatives in our writers’ lives. You won’t...

Following Atticus is the remarkable true story of a man and a dog embarking on the challenge of a lifetime. This is author Tom Ryan’s inspiring tale of ho...

The Eldest Son Of Jordan's King Hussein, The Author Had Not Expected To Ascend To The Throne; His Father's Brother Had Long Been Crown Prince. But He Was Ch...

In the summer of 1942, twenty-five thousand feet above Malta, RAF Spitfires fought combat after bitter combat with clouds of German and Italian bombers and ...

When busy people want to know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, the Zondervan Quick-Reference Library offers an instant information alternative....

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamerous ex ...

Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see.--Corrie ten Boom Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who ...

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of aban...

Presents Photos Of Baseball Artifacts From The World's Most Impressive Private Collections, Providing Historical Background On The Objects And Information O...

The sequel to The Cage and To Life continues Sender's account of her struggle to build a new life in America, her battle to cope with her horrific memories...

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American coloni...

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfictionAn Economist Best Book of 2014Winner of the bronze medal f...

This Work Focuses On Such Subjects As John Wayne And Howard Hughes, Growing Up A Girl In California, Ruminating On The Nature Of Good And Evil In A Death Va...

from It's Inception By Dj Kool Herc To Its Modern Form, Can't Stop, Won't Stop Follows The History Of The Most Pivotal Music Phenomenon's Of Our Time, Hip...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, ...

An incredible true coming-of-age story In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from h...

a Provocative New Perspective On Female History, The History Of American Medicine And Psychology, And The History Of Child-rearing Unlike Any Other. Categ...

Why Did Eurasians Conquer, Displace, Or Decimate Native Americans, Australians, And Africans, Instead Of The Reverse? In This Groundbreaking Book, Evolution...

Examines The Century Between The Fall Of Napoleon And The Outbreak Of World War I, Discussing Events Ranging From The Crumbling Of The Spanish, Ottoman, And...