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Combining meticulous research and dramatic narrative history, the author sheds new light on the sinking of the "Titanic," with new evidence and theories on,...

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Jean Markale ; Translated By A. Mygind, C. Hauch, And P. Henry. Translation Of: La Femme Celte. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-304.Categories: Religio...

"Millions of Americans are beginning to work and live the way creative people like artists and scientists always have - and as a result our values and taste...

Pat Buchanan, Bestselling Author And Former Senior Adviser To President Richard Nixon In The White House, For The First Time Describes His Years Advising Th...

Hillbilly Elegy Is A Passionate And Personal Analysis Of A Culture In Crisis--that Of Poor, White Americans. The Disintegration Of This Group, A Process Tha...

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London—the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism—Walter Laqueur here offers both a compr...

The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward por...

Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from term papers & blue book exams. From college students' own authentic and inimitable voices comes a collect...

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of...

A Detailed Social History Of Childbirth Examines The Physical, Political, Social, Religious, And Anthropological Factors That Influence How Women Bring New ...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washi...

“Bear Grylls is a veritable superhero….The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world’s harshest environments.”—Hampton Sides, Out...

"A masterpiece of women’s wisdom."—Christiane Northrup, M.D. "The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinatin...

The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration ...

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.Founder of a dynasty, builder of the ori...

It Was To Be The Greatest And Most Elaborate Arctic Expedition In History, With The Largest Scientific Staff Ever Taken On Such A Journey. It's Leader, Vilh...

One Man's Odyssey Into The Brutal Hive Of The National Football League. This Is Not A Celebrity Tell-all Of Professional Sports. Slow Getting Up Is A Surviv...

Offers a historical perspective on the Vatican, shows some of its treasures, and describes daily life in the VaticanCategories: Religion & Spirituality ...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

Methodology -- Function Of Ancient Near Eastern Legal Collections -- Ritual And Torah -- Context Of The Torah -- Ongoing Significance Of The Torah -- Conclu...

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordi...

Collects nearly one thousand photographs to present a comprehensive visual document of the twentieth centuryCategories: HistoryWorld

The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for ...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as ...

The Russo-turkish War Was One Of The Most Decisive Conflicts Of The 18th Century. In This Book, Brian Davies Offers A Thorough Survey Of The War And Explain...

The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organised, who participated? Were ancient sport...

From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory, witty and insightful personal me...

The Woman At The Center Of The Bush Administration's Cia Leak Scandal Breaks Her Silence As She Describes Her Role As An Undercover Cia Operative, Her Train...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

The millions of readers who loved The Da Vinci Code have been looking for the truth behind the fiction: here it is. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown took Am...

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of gl...

Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning work...

Geoffrey Parker. The Lees Knowles Lectures, 1984, Given At Trinity College, Cambridge--half T.p. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 155-216.Categories: Engi...

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust – A Moving Account of Jewish Girls' Extraordinary Resilience and Courage by Clothes Hi...

In 1939 Poland, Antonina Abi Ski (portrayed By Two-time Academy Award Nominee Jessica Chastain) And Her Husband, Dr. Jan Abi Ski (johan Heldenbergh), Have T...

The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein. In the...

A Portrait Of Saint Paul Identifies His Crucial Role In The Formation Of Christianity While Considering How Beliefs About His Character Have Transformed Him...

In This Epic, Beautifully Written Masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson Chronicles One Of The Great Untold Stories Of American History:...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

Since the end of World War Two, the use of nuclear weapons has been America's-and the world's-worst nightmare. But they have never actually been used, des...

the Time - And Money-saving Furnace Care And Repair Guide. Giving You Useful Tips, Simplified Strategies, And Genuine Expertise, Roger Vizi Offers Homeown...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empir...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of th...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

This Book Presents A Global Narrative Of The Origins Of The Modern World From 1400 To The Present. Unlike Most Studies, Which Assume That The Rise Of The We...