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International Bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explore...

this Fresh, Blunt, And Highly Persuasive Account Of How The West Was Won—for Jesus (newsweek) Is Now Available In Paperback. Stark's Provocative Report Ch...

"Absorbing and convincing ... a major contribution to Lincolniana."—David H. Donald, author of Lincoln This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln be...

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...

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 ...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in 1854, hediscovered both th...

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...

By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in...

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...

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other books, is known fo...

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...

Tammy Wynette, With Joan Dew. Includes Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

In This Brilliant Work Of Historical Reconstruction Neil Macgregor And His Team At The British Museum, Working Together In A Landmark Collaboration With The...

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 ...

Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, provides “an e...

Athanasius: The Life of Antony and The Letter to Marcellinus Translation and introduction by Robert c. Gregg Preface by William A. Clebsch "And it seems t...

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...

Envisioning A Future In Which The Christian Church Plays A Viable And Transformative Role In Shaping Society, Gretta Vosper Argues That If The Church Is To ...

Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of ...

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

A member of the 1980 Reagan-Bush election committee addresses questions concerning connections between the election of the two and the release of American h...

this Magisterial Volume Follows The Death Of Ancient Traditions, The Triumph Of New Classes, And The Emergence Of New Technologies, Sciences, And Ideologi...

The Inspiring Story Of A Young Armenian's Harrowing Escape From Genocide And Of His Granddaughter's Quest To Retrace His Steps. Growing Up, Dawn Mackeen Hea...

In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinia...

A century after Albert Einstein began postulating his "Big Idea" about time, space, and gravity, a new biography examines the scientist whose public idoliz...

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...

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls....

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...

It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volu...

In This Moving And Accessible Narrative, Tried By Fire Speaks Across Centuries To Offer Insight Into The People And Events That Shaped The Faith That Contin...

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...

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...

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...

Chronicles The Final Voyage Of The Ss Central America, As It Sank Off The Carolina Coast In 1857, And Explains The Recent Technology Used To Recover The Shi...

Juan Pujol, alias "Garbo," was the first major double agent in the history of espionage. Britain's Public Record Office has recently released this account o...

from Beer To Coca-cola, The Six Drinks That Have Helped Shape Human History. throughout Human History. Certain Drinks Have Done Much More Than Just Quench...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was...

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beas...

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

Here, For The First Time In A Single Volume, Is The Full And Detailed Saga Of The Nineteenth-century Quest For Two Of The World's Great Geographical Prizes....

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