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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...

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Railroads played an integral role in the Second World War. Trains brought food, munitions, and essential supplies. They transported troops. They were a mean...

Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year! All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore wh...

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Chu...

"Turning Point" is a comprehensive history of early A.A.'s spiritual roots and successes. It is the culmination of six years of research, traveling, and in...

marx -kierkegaard -nietzsche -freud -if We Do Not Learn From Them, It May Be At Our Own Peril. in Partly Right, Dr. Campolo Explores The Background And Cl...

The 20th Century witnessed change unparalleled in history : from wars and conflicts, political upheavals, and social developments, to advances in medicine,...

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...

Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that complement Ancient Greek philosophy for c...

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...

this Remarkable, Never-before-told Account Of The Ovitz Family, Seven Of Whose Ten Members Were Dwarfs, Bears Witness To The Best And Worst Of Humanity An...

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

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Be...

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

Investigating Babyn Yar Tells The Story Of The Murder Of Kyiv's Jews Using Available Fragmentary Evidence. The Book Follows The Trail Of Discarded Property ...

The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extrao...

Publisher's Description -- Hunger Is As Old As History Itself. Indeed, It Appears To Be A Timeless And Inescapable Biological Condition. And Yet Perceptions...

Imperialism in the Modern World combines narrative, primary and secondary sources, and visual documents to examine global relations in the nineteenth and t...

Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the...

the First Popular History Of The Emancipation Of Europe’s Jews In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries—a Transformation That Was Startling To Those Who...

How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained? Is it independent of concepts, beliefs, and practices? How can we account...

A German Historian Attempts To Explain How The Holocaust Happened, Discussing How Widespread Acceptance Of Anti-semitism And Scientific Racism In The Politi...

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

'Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.'-New York Times Book ReviewErik Larson has been widely acclaimed as ...

"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . ...

Includes The Diary Of A Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, By Anne Frank ; Edited By Otto H. Frank & Miriam Pressler ; Translated By Susan Massotty, Ne...

Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with an irresistible addition to his bestselling PostSecret series. For The Secret Lives of Men and Women, Warre...

This book combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. In this way, the book he...

A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geog...

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...

Tom Segev ; Translated By Haim Watzman. Translation Of: Ha-milyon Ha-sheviʻi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 519-580) And Index.Categories: Politi...

In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in...

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective history...

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. A worldwide bestseller published in countle...

While Bringing To Life The Movements, Personalities, And Spiritual Disciplines That Have Always Informed And Ignited Christian Worship And Social Activism, ...

Hillary Clinton's Candid Reflections About The Key Moments During Her Time As Secretary Of State, As Well As Her Thoughts About How To Navigate The Challeng...

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

Placing value in perspective―a rich primary source collection at a truly exceptional value.Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civiliz...

The most pedagogically innovative text and media for the western civilizations course―now more current, more global, and more interactive. The balanced n...

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal trait...

Learn about the history and culture surrounding Chinese embroidery and learn to embroider yourself with this easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated gui...

From The Author Of New York Times Bestseller Utopia For Realists, A Revolutionary Argument That The Innate Goodness And Cooperation Of Human Beings Has Been...

In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil—and in the rest of the world—as it appeared in tr...

Wouldn’t it be great to understand all our Christmas traditions? Here, Jonathan Green offers the fascinating history behind our most beloved holiday tradi...

Hillary Clinton's Candid Reflections About The Key Moments During Her Time As Secretary Of State, As Well As Her Thoughts About How To Navigate The Challeng...

"Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page -- as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Through Tub...

THE NEW FOURTH REVISED EDITION A vast and absorbing resource, the fourth edition of The Timetables of ™History spans millennia of human history. Unlike...