World

The Harrowing True Survival Story Of An Early Polar Expedition That Went Terribly Awry--with The Ship Frozen In Ice And The Crew Trapped Inside For The Enti...

Obama Tells The Story Of His Improbable Odyssey From Young Man Searching For His Identity To Leader Of The Free World, Describing In Strikingly Personal Det...

An Unmissable Gift Book, A Small Book Of Jewish Comedians Is A Perfect (please God) Post-pandemic Pick-me-up In 1978, Time Magazine Estimated That Around 80...

John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the earl...

Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few sinc...

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel night Is Elie Wiesel’s Masterpiece, A Candid, Horrific, And Deeply Poignant Autobiographical Account ...

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

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New...

helen Hardacre, A Leading Scholar Of Religious Life In Modern Japan, Examines The Japanese State's Involvement In And Manipulation Of Shinto From The Meij...

Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civi...

A comprehensive reference book on every aspect of Christianity, especially in its historical development. The dictionary contains about 6,000 entries and ov...

scot Mcknight, Best-selling Author Of The Jesus Creed, Invites Readers To Get Closer To The Heart Of Jesus' Message By Discovering The Ancient Rhythms Of D...

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

This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and ...

the Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History — The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Cultur...

updated And With A New Afterword national Book Award Finalist a time, newsweek, washington Post, chicago Tribune, And new York Times Book Review Best Book ...

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring―and successful...

In This Book The Author Explores The Supernatural Connection Of Certain Celestial Events To Biblical Prophecy, And To The Future Of God's Chosen People And ...

The autobiography of Murray Heron-pioneer missionary to Quebec By Murray Heron. Edited by Ginette Cotnoir Footprints across Quebec is an engaging account of...

Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the torah.Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis reminds us of the principlesnecessary for living a better and more committed life.Insp...

What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden...

The Small Church Of Mary Magdalene In The Remote Village Of Rennes-le-chateau In Southern France May Well Hold The Key To The Proof Of Mary Magdalene's Marr...

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...

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussei...

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Ker...

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...

You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Ch...

why Do Some Allegations Of Scholarly Misconduct And Error Become Large Media Spectacles And Result In Sanction Against The Offending Writer, While Others R...

About the Author Shelley Puhak is a critically acclaimed poet and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, Teen Vogue, Virgi...

Examines The History, Art, Architecture, Languages, Literatures, Society, And Religion Of Biblical Israel And Early Judaism And Christianity. In The Beginni...

David Rohl continues his quest to reach the historical kernel lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems and mysteries of Old World histor...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

in This Final Volume Of Her Trilogy On The History Of Women, Marilyn French Traces The Role Of Women In The 19th And 20th Centuries. publishers Weekly in ...

Jack Holland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-289) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Women's StudiesFeminist Theory

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...

A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book Of The Year Costa Book Award Winner For Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (new Writer Of The Year Aw...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church...

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may...

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...

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...

An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery—from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyage...

For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal contex...

All the makings of your favorite adventure story - drama, intrigue, promise, love, hope, and heartache spanning two thousand years...and YOU are a part of ...

The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Re...