Historical Study & Educational Resources

This comprehensive narrative covers Latin America's pre-Colombian and colonial periods, including its civil war and struggle for independence. Brown's clear...

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community Is The First Systematic Study Of Coloured Identity, Its History,...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

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...

Terry Bradshaw -- Evander Holyfield -- Jerry West -- Byron Whizzer White -- Danielle Green -- Bill Yoast -- Joey Cheek -- Dwayne The Rock Johnson -- Dorothy...

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 ...

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...

In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of yo...

Bogart paints an indelible portrait of a complex man, from the privilege and abuse he experienced in childhood to his triumphant 1935 acting breakthrough i...

In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christ...

A detailed behind-the-scenes look at PBS Masterpiece's All Creatures Great and Small, based on James Herriott's beloved classic book series Welcome to the ...

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

Introduction : Treading On Enchanted Ground -- Baltimore Looks West -- The Vast Machinery -- Network -- Default -- Riding The Rails -- The Soulless Corporat...

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 ...

A basic introduction and must-read for aspiring nurses, written by one of the founders of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.Categories: Medical BooksHist...

New York Times Bestseller In Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: The Funky Finds in Flavortown, Guy Fieri, one of Food Network’s biggest stars, keeps his motto ...

From The Tsunami In Sri Lanka To The War In Iraq To The Starvation In Niger And Ultimately To Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans And Mississippi, Cooper Gives...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

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...

"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Kore...

What If We Examined A Landscape On Its Own Terms, Freed From Expectations Or Assumptions? The River Is A Gorgeous And Moving Meditation That Uses Fiction, N...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well...

America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader—tells a story she has never told before, a candid accoun...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her...

if You Want To Play The Game, You've Got To Know The Rules. In His International Bestseller the Game, Neil Strauss Delved Into The Secret World Of Pick-u...

I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated ro...

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...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring e...

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

The firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presid...

Newly revised and updated, the master-level companion to the world’s bestselling beer making book, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. In this inviting, eas...

The Country Music Legend Shares The Story Behind His Meteoric Rise To Fame, Including The Highs And Lows, And The Secrets Behind His Biggest Hits. Rogers De...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

`The overall conception of the volume is absolutely splendid, and the editors skilfully place the material in the context of disciplinary and post-discipli...

Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus relig...

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...

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

Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Ma...

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcyc...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salva...

A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITYThe effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our t...

From Architecture To Electricity, From Food Preservation To Epidemics, From The Telephone To The Eiffel Tower, From Crinolines To Toilets - And The Brillila...

From its inception, Sports Illustrated has chronicled hockey's greatest spectacle: the pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Now, SI celebrates the incomparable gr...

An Exhilarating History Of Humankind, Chronicling Thousands Of Years Of Trial And Error--but Mostly Error--in The Rise Of Civilization Modern Humans Have Co...

who Formed The First Modern Nation?who Created The First Literate Society?who Invented Our Modern Ideas Of Democracy And Free Market Capitalism?the Scots....