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Inverting The Pyramid Is A Pioneering Soccer Book That Chronicles The Evolution Of Soccer Tactics And The Lives Of The Itinerant Coaching Geniuses Who Have ...

In this new volume, Cheetham presents fresh translations and scholarly interpretations of Nostradamus's last prophecies, focusing on new and startling predi...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare provides a unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present. The book treats all aspects of the ...

"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!"-wrote astronomer Johannes Kepler, 1619. Scientific Revolution astronomers Copernicus, Galileo, Bra...

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that ...

By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in...

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other books, is known fo...

The Rise And Fall Of Peace On Earth Examines That Singularly Peaceful Quarter Century. Its Initial Three Chapters Describe How And Why Peace Came To Be Esta...

Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, provides “an e...

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls....

In This Moving And Accessible Narrative, Tried By Fire Speaks Across Centuries To Offer Insight Into The People And Events That Shaped The Faith That Contin...

The Author Recounts How His Exposure To The Criminal Underclass While Serving Time In A State-run Confinement Center Opened His Eyes To The Ways In Which Th...

Maps have been around in some form or other since humans first understood the need to record their physical space, and for the past hundred years, the Natio...

'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...

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Tom Standage. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [214]-217) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering ReferenceHistory

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill chal...

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussei...

The Most Profound Characteristic Of Western Europe In The Middle Ages Was Its Cultural And Religious Unity, A Unity Secured By A Common Alignment With The P...