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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a groundbreaking scientific work written by Albert Einstein, one of the most renowned physicists of all ti...

The entry for kvetchn (the verbal form) in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary reads simply: press, squeeze, pinch; strain...

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East...

A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era—the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series K...

On December 3. 1999, the call crackled in to the men of Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless c...

The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in Go...

A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected ...

Product Description Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, ...

What Does It Take, Both Physically And Mentally, To Join The World’s Most Respected—and Feared—military Units? Lewis Looks At The Origins, Training, T...

Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty w...

An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas ...

Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basement...

For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

Fourth in the Kennel Club Books’ Classics series, The Golden Retriever recognizes the ever-popular all-American breed in this one spectacular volume. Writ...

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life...

remember That Time You Bumped Into Stephen Hawking At The Clambake And His Monologue On String Theory Went Completely Over Your Head? Man, Was That Awkwar...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpieceThe Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the perv...

Why exactly is Paul Revere revered? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? * Best-selling author Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit t...

Idenifies Key Individuals, Events, Places, Organizations, Movements, Political Parties, And Battles. Consultant Editor, Bruce P. Lenman ; Editor, Hilary Mar...

The past is filled with stories of personal struggles, hard-fought triumphs, interesting trivia, common myths and serious misconceptions. Now, with "The Ha...

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

The Fifties Is A Sweeping Social, Political, Economic, And Cultural History Of The Ten Years That David Halberstam Regards As Seminal In Determining What Ou...

Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the ...

Completely new selection of guns featured - this book does not repeat the content of other similar volumes by the same author or with the same title.Categor...

The Classic History Reference, Brought Completely Up To Date, Linking More Than 30,000 Events In An Overview Of 7,000 Years Of Civilization. The Timetables ...

A stunning year-by-year chronicle of world history from AD 1000 to the present day. From the great voyages undertaken by the Norse peoples at the dawn of t...

Glorious Photographs Of Every Part Of The World. Delving Deeply Into Century-old Picture Archive National Geographic Presents The World's Hugely Diverse Pla...

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indispensable For Every Home, Library, And Office, the Knowledge Book Distills Thousands Of Years Of Humankind's Most Significant Ideas And Achievements.....

Edited By Geoffrey Barraclough. Includes World Chronology, Glossary, And Index. Reprint. Originally Published: London : Times Books, 1993.Categories: Scienc...

New Ed.: London : Longman, 1988. Includes Index. Maps On Lining Papers.Categories: History Historical Study & Educational ResourcesReference