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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 ...

Iain H. Murray. Spine Title: D.m. Lloyd-jones : The Fight Of Faith. Running Title: David Martyn Lloyd-jones : Volume Two. Includes Index. Bibliography Of D....

A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the...

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

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

They included a multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor and his wife Madeleine, who had eloped to escape the gossip-mongers. Only Madeleine and their unborn chil...

Mark Curtis ; With A Foreword By John Pilger. A Vintage Original-cover. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Scie...

No nation on earth has a richer, more colourful, and more long–standing heritage of evangelical awakenings than Scotland – yet most people are unfamilia...

Come to know the house of the Virgin Mary which, according to numberless saints, scores of popes, and many official documents of the Vatican (and to protec...

Some years before this book was written, H. Belloc wrote that R. Benson would be the man to write some day a book to give us some sort of idea what happened...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

1. January 1 To March 31 -- 2. April 1 To June 30 -- 3. July 1 To September 30 -- 4. October 1 To December 31. By George Poulos. Includes Indexes.Categories...

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

"A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extre...

A Study of History [hardcover] Toynbee, Arnold Joseph [Oct 01, 1972]Categories: History WorldCivilization & Culture

“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.” —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, ...

The many traditions and legends of Jesus’ travels to Britain are deeply impressed into English culture, owing especially to famous allusion by William Bla...

Susan Orlean Reopens The Unsolved Mystery Of The Most Catastrophic Library Fire In American History, And Delivers A Dazzling Love Letter To A Beloved Instit...

This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparati...

Now re-releasing as a part of the Lives of Faith series, the story of Jim Elliot’s life and martyrdom is one of the great missionary stories of modern tim...

"an Admirable And Impressive Work Of Synthesis That Will Give Insight And Satisfaction To Thousands Of Lay Readers."the Washington Post Book World In This...

This 35th anniversary edition of a best-selling book recounts Corrie tenBoom's horrific experiences in Hitler's concentration camps, explains how she surv...

Book By Joseph Stein ; Music By Jerry Bock ; Lyrics By Sheldon Harnick ; Based On Sholom Aleichem's Stories. Originally Published In Hardcover In The United...

For a decade Philip Connors has spent nearly half of each year in a 7' x 7' fire lookout tower, 10,000 feet above sea level, keeping watch over one of the m...

Racism is pervasive in today's world, and many are complicit in the failure to confront its evils. Jemar Tisby, author of the award-winning The Color of Com...

Now in paperback, Engineers tells the story of the brilliant minds that have constructed our man-made world, from ancient pyramids to modern spaceflight D...

“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine ““In deligh...

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...

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...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Sunday Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick A Best Book Of The Year: The Washington Post * Npr * The Atlantic * New York ...

A uniquely intimate narrative of ordinary men and women facing the challenges and turmoil of war with acts of great heroism and humanity.A fascinating accou...

In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing ...

From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, the only Holocaust su...

Destiny's Child's inimitable music, empowering message, and singular experiences have fascinated fans for years. Their first tow albums and hit singles hav...

who Formed The First Modern Nation?who Created The First Literate Society?who Invented Our Modern Ideas Of Democracy And Free Market Capitalism?the Scots....

Modern-day Christians often bring their own presuppositions and assumptions to the reading of the Bible, not realizing how deeply their understanding of Chr...

Discover a different way of seeing and responding to the Coronavirus pandemic, an approach drawing on Scripture, Christian history, and the way of living,...

Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans i...

the Franco-prussian War Broke Out In 1870 When Bismarck Engineered A War With The French Second Empire Under Napoleon Iii. This Was Part Of His Wider Poli...

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchant...

Both Christians and unbelievers of the past teach us by their examples. In this second volume especially prepared for family and children’s devotions, Chr...

World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian...

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up duri...

Anyone Can Achieve A Reasonable Level Of Sanctity, But The Saints Are In A League Of Their Own. What Sets Them Apart? Does Holiness Come More Naturally To T...

How can we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it r...

Stephen Greenblatt Explores The Enduring Story Of Humanity's First Parents. Tracking The Tale Into The Deep Past, Greenblatt Uncovers The Tremendous Theolog...

Andrew Jackson Was Fearless -- Some Would Say Ruthless -- In His Single-minded Focus On The Security Of The United States ...--- Inside Cover. Preface -- Ch...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bes...