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A Petroleum Republic -- Venezuela To 1600 -- The Colonial Era (to 1810) -- Movements Toward Independence (1810-1830) -- The Age Of Caudillismo (1830-1898) -...

Parrish, Thomas, Ed., Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia Of World War II, TheCategories: Reference Encyclopedias & Subject GuidesMilitary

Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to p...

The Historical Foundations Of Women's Power In The Creation Of The American Welfare State, 1830-1930 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Borderlands: Women, Voluntary A...

Prologue : Why This Journey Into The Soul Of The Modern World? -- The Soul Of Western Civilization -- A Personal Pilgrimage -- The Seeds Of Western Civiliza...

In This Remarkably Moving Memoir Ariana Neumann Dives Into The Secrets Of Her Father’s Past: Years Spent Hiding In Plain Sight In War-torn Berlin, The Ann...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

Shedding Light on Revival and Emotion In the wake of recent revival movements, Christians need Jonathan Edwards' classic Religious Affections more than ev...

Can the stones of ancient Palestine speak to us about the real Jesus and his message? Are there ways to discover the historical Jesus by sifting through th...

In History, Myth Often Abides. It Was Long Assumed That The Centuries Immediately Prior To Ad 1000 Were Lacking In Any Major Cultural Developments Or Geopol...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest d...

this Remarkable, Never-before-told Account Of The Ovitz Family, Seven Of Whose Ten Members Were Dwarfs, Bears Witness To The Best And Worst Of Humanity An...

'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from the earliest times to the modern day. Highly recomme...

This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most i...

Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend—his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defenda...

Tim Cook, Canada's Leading War Historian, Ventures Deep Into The Second World War In This Epic Two-volume Story Of Heroism And Horror, Loss And Longing, And...

Beginning with the Gospels, interpretations of the life of Jesus have flourished for nearly two millennia, yet a clear and coherent picture of Jesus as a m...

Edward Abdill. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students...

acclaimed As One Of The Most Exciting Books In The History Of American Letters, This Modern Epic Became An Instant Bestseller Upon Publication In 1974, Tr...

16 Million Copies Sold 'a Book To Read, To Cherish, To Debate, And One That Will Ultimately Keep The Memories Of The Victims Alive' John Boyne, Author Of Th...

A captivating insider’s guide to the politics and personalities that will have a tremendous impact on one of the world’s most secretive and important e...

In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empir...

By Betty Friedan ; Introduction By Anna Quindlen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 397-422) And Index.Categories: History WorldWomen in History

Want To Impress Your Buddies At The Bar? Need To Think Of Something Interesting To Do At The Next Family Gathering? Want To Learn A Bunch Of Random Facts Ab...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

Through This Magnificent Collection Of Historical Maps, Travel Writer Francisca Mattéoli Takes Us On A Geographical Adventure, Telling The Stories Of Twent...

Except for Bibles and Hymnbooks, no other book has been read and appreciated by as many United Church poeple. From what to wear and where to sit in church t...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

The long-neglected history of feminine Christianity is beautifully and concisely illuminated in "this useful anthology." --Publishers Weekly Publishers Wee...

The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning...

Lamartine, Orateur Exceptionnel Qui Avait Le Sens De La Formule, A Lui-même Rédigé L'argumentaire De Son Ouvrage : J'entreprends D'écrire L'histoire D'...

The Shocking True Story Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Prolific Female Serial Killers.--book Jacket. Belle Gunness Engaged In Wholesale Slaughter, P...

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Written After His Wife's Tragic Death As A Way Of Surviving The Mad Midnight Moment, A Grief Observed Is C.s. Lewis's Honest Reflection On The Fundamental I...

Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and ...

Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of sc...

This is the complete saga of the pursuit for two of the world's greatest geographical prizes--the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic, the Pacific, and th...

Nansen: The Explorer as Hero is a well-crafted, masterfully researched biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian doctor-scientist some consider the great...

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to th...

In 1857, Captain William Lewis Herndon sacrificed his life trying to save 600 passengers and crew when his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina ...

100 Events that Shaped World History is a wonderful and insightful overview of the basic facts that have created the world as it is today. Interesting and f...

Presents stories of many of the landmark events and people of the 20th centuryCategories: History WorldGeneral

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective history...

Kōchiyama Kiyohiko Cho. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. 河內山清彥著.Categories: History WorldCivilization & Culture

Here, For The First Time In A Single Volume, Is The Full And Detailed Saga Of The Nineteenth-century Quest For Two Of The World's Great Geographical Prizes....

Since 1820, some 50 million Europeans have immigrated to the United States and Canada. Their story has been told in many ways, but never like this. William ...