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Using narratives from fair-goers, this book examines the technological enthusiasm of Victorian society at the 1876 Philadelphia World’s Fair and the resul...

A bold and important history of lesbian-feminism on the Florida coast.In 1977, two lesbian couples living in St. Augustine, Florida, found a row of small be...

"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," write...

Based On Years Of Original Research And New Reporting, Two Acclaimed Authors Deliver The Riveting And Emotionally Wrenching Full Story Of The Worst Sea Disa...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pe...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...

Pfaff Discusses Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries (including : T.e. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'annunzio -- Ernst Jünger --...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

As ten-year-old Pinchas is deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek and then to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

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 ...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

Religion Has Influenced Human Culture Since Prehistory, Shaping Everything From The Politics Of War And Peace To Notions Of Morality And Issues Of Sex, Repr...

Overview: Most Of Us Take For Granted The Features Of Our Modern Society, From Air Travel And Telecommunications To Literacy And Obesity. Yet For Nearly All...

a People And A Nation Is A Best-selling Text Offering A Spirited Narrative That Tells The Stories Of All People In The United States. The Authors? Attenti...

The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJe...

Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the ...

Provides Portraits And Cameos Of Over Sixty Women Who Were Influential In The Civil Rights Movement, And Argues That The Political Activity Of Women Has Bee...

The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution continues to share her unique insight into Ronald Reagan, arguing that his character and courage made...

The Century Presents History As It Was Lived, And As It Will Be Remembered For The Next Hundred Years. Here Is A Keepsake Volume Destined To Be An Essential...

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...

When News Of The Budding Romance Between A Beloved English Prince And An American Actress Broke, It Captured The World's Attention And Sparked An Internatio...

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teachi...

In This Illuminating And Deeply Moving Memoir, A Former American Military Intelligence Officer Goes Beyond Traditional Cold War Espionage Tales To Tell The ...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russ...

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near t...

Title: Cod( A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World) Binding: Paperback Author: MarkKurlansky Publisher: PenguinBooksCategories: Sports & Outdoor...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.Gold Medal Winner, 201...

The real stories behind famous people and events from ancient to modern times.Anecdotal, thought provoking and organized by topic. Chapters will include: Yo...

God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the wa...

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

A provoking and timely examination of one of the most important moments in Church history.In 381 AD, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman Empire, issued...

A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

describes Christmas Traditions In Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, And Norway. publishers Weekly the On My Own Holidays Series Offers Explanatory ...

What Would The Founders Think? We Live In A Divided America That Is Currently Incapable Of Sustained Argument And Is Feeling Unsure Of Its Destiny. Joseph J...

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the p...

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, and to le...

Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first explorers to the present day.Categories: HistoryWorld

The #1 New York Times Best-selling Author Of In The Garden Of Beasts Presents A 100th-anniversary Chronicle Of The Sinking Of The Lusitania That Discusses T...

"This is the book I have been waiting for."--Rachel Maddow INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on de...

A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by...

A stunning year-by-year chronicle of world history from AD 1000 to the present day. From the great voyages undertaken by the Norse peoples at the dawn of t...

Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave t...