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Right Next To The Colosseum In Rome Stands The Arch Of Constantine. Completed Ad 312-315, It Was Built To Celebrate Ten Years Of The Emperor Constantine's R...

Science Is Fantastic. It Tells Us About The Infinite Reaches Of Space, The Tiniest Living Organism, The Human Body, The History Of Earth. People Have Always...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

Today, Only Twenty Percent Of Americans Are Wed By Age Twenty-nine, Compared To Nearly Sixty Percent In 1960. The Population Reference Bureau Calls It A 'dr...

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true stor...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

From One Of The World's Most Celebrated Moral Philosophers Comes A Thorough Examination Of The Current Political Crisis And Recommendations For How To Mend ...

“makes A Reader Feel Like A Time Traveler Plopped Down Among Men Who Were By Turns Vicious And Visionary.”—the Christian Science Monitor the Modern Ame...

'why Does The Church Stir Up Such Negative Feelings?' Philip Yancey Has Been Asking This All His Life As A Journalist. His Perennial Question Is More Releva...

During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers—mostly children—as they fled for their lives. The same place offers re...

In Gender Roles And The People Of God, Alice Mathews Surveys The Roles Women Have Played In The Bible And Throughout Church History, Demonstrating Both The ...

A Charming, Intimate And Fascinating Collection Of Correspondence Between Broadcaster And #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Anderson Cooper And His Mothe...

Lee Krasner, Best Known As Jackson Pollock's Wife, Reveals A Woman Who Was A Firebrand And Trailblazer For Women's Rights, Who Also Led A Fascinating Life, ...

Trials have a way of changing us, for better or worse. They can humble us or harden us. They can make us run to God or away from him. Perhaps your trials ha...

John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Ra...

“The single best book that we now have on Earhart’s life” (Washington Post Book World)—and the inspiration for the forthcoming major motion picture Amelia...

In This Dazzling Memoir, The Acclaimed Writer Behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling And Marvel's Thor Reveals How The Power Of Creativity An...

In this astonishingly frank autobiography, the Dalai Lama reveals the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Bu...

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on S...

A Revelatory Account Of The Actions Taken By The First President To Retain His Slaves In Spite Of Northern Laws. Profiles One Of The Slaves, Ona Judge, Desc...

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jet...

A New Edition Of The Bestselling Classic – Published With A Special Introduction To Mark Its 10th Anniversary This Pioneering Account Sets Out To Understa...

The Definitive Story Of The International Modeling Business--and Its Evil Twin, Legalized Flesh Peddling--model Is A Tale Of Beautiful Women Empowered And S...

Argues That A Global Conspiracy Has Enslaved Americans With Poor Education, A Misguided Mass Media, And A Buffet Of Prescription Drugs, And Issues A Call To...

Many wonder how an entire nation could allow Adolf Hitler - a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter - to become the architect of the most cala...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained wit...

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Biblical Traditions And Interpretations -- Early Influences On Emerging Christianity -- Early Forms Of Christianity -- Rituals And Patterns Of Worship -- St...

"On the walls of buildings . . . on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging from food...

Originally Published In 2016 In The United Kingdom By Simon & Schuster Uk--title Page Verso.Categories: Medical BooksHistory

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed th...

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, im...

Revised By Robin Osborne. At Head Of Title: Joint Association Of Classical Teachers' Greek Course. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 390-405) And Inde...

Combining the stories of fifty faithful men and women, beloved author Warren W. Wiersbe offers today's readers inspiration and encouragement in life's uncer...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor's Choice From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful man...

An Update Of The Popular Overview, A History Of Science In Society Traces The Development Of Scientific Thought Throughout The Ages. Beginning With The Phil...

Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott's classic chronicle has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced, and accessible account of the dr...

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account...

Dr. Wayne Dyer Is An Extraordinary Sensor Of What People Want -- And He Moves With The Ever-changing Times. He Lasered In On The Heart Of The Spiritual With...

A Comprehensive, Rollicking, And Timely History Of The Papacy. St. Peter -- Defenders Of The City (c. 100-536) -- Vigilius (537-555) -- Gregory The Great (5...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a cou...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.\Born in...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

This Sequel To The Prize Provides A Narrative Of Global Energy, The Principal Engine Of Geopolitical And Economic Change. The Author, An Energy Authority Co...

Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. ...

a los Angeles Times And economist Best Book Of The Yearwith A New Prefacethe Grandson Of An Eminent Ayatollah And The Son Of An Iranian Diplomat, Journali...