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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...

One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in this groundbreaking exploration of the new Buddhist tradit...

This world history text is organized into fewer, longer chapters that discuss all world civilizations in a specified time period. Chapters are broken into s...

"More than a horrifying tale... also a penetrating examination of causes."-Denis Wood, author,The Power of MapsSeventy-one years before the Titanic, a ship ...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

If offered the chance—by cloak, spell, or superpower—to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeuri...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

in This Angry, Funny, Smart, Contentious Book, Jonah Goldberg Offers A Startling New Perspective On The Theories And Practices That Define Fascist Politic...

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., A Late-eighteenth-century Financial Pioneer-turned-confidence Man, Describing How He Took Advantage Of Suspicions About Paper M...

Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It ...

Dramatically Recreates A Sequence Of Ten Decisions Made By Six Major Leaders Between May 1940 And December 1941 That Reshaped Human Destiny, From Churchill'...

PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Ace the new Digital AP World History: Modern Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including 6 pract...

Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, a...

Explores Humanity's Attempts To Comprehend The Divine By Giving It Human Traits And Emotions, And Calls For A More Expansive Understanding Of God To Develop...

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...

"They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, ho...

updated And With A New Afterword national Book Award Finalist a time, newsweek, washington Post, chicago Tribune, And new York Times Book Review Best Book ...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

On 8 March 1421 The Largest Fleet The World Had Ever Seen Sailed From Its Base In China. The Ships, Huge Junks Nearly Five Hundred Feet Long And Built From ...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for i...

What secrets connect Egypt‘s Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Mar...

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review The Washington Post - Maya Jasanoff Already by 1776 it had seemed "self-evident," at least t...

Today Technology Has Created A World Of Dazzling Progress, Growing Disparities Of Wealth And Poverty, And Looming Threats To The Environment. This Book Offe...

SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY SINCE 1900 is a primary source reader designed to supplement modern world history courses. It contains both textual and visual sou...

A Concise Edition with clear connections, comparisons, and sources in every chapter. The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, World...

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 ...

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

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...

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science ...

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...

A popular history of the decade after Waterloo finds in it the seeds of the modern world, such as the establishment of constitutional democracy, internation...

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