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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...

Bess Hardwick, Born Into The Most Brutal And Turbulent Period Of England's History, The Fifth Of Six Daughters Of An Impoverished Derbyshire Nobleman, Did N...

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

This Book, By A Veteran Observer Of The Middle East, Tells The Story Of The Gassing Of Halabja. It Shows How Iraq Was Able To Develop Ever More Sophisticate...

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how t...

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 Second Messiah: Templars, The Turin Shroud & The Great Secret of FreemasonryCategories: Religion & Spirituality Other Religions, Practices &...

Highlights from the horrid series that gets you hooked on history! Age 8+. Dimensions: 19 x 13.2 x 1.3 cm. Titles:The Awesome Egyptians; The Groovy Greeks; ...

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...

Gregory A. Freeman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [289]-291) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Transportation ShipsHistory ...

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...

"More imaginatively than any other Stevens biographer, Fawn Brodie has speculated upon the emotional springs of the man's behavior. More resourcefully than...

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...

The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: ...

Asia's History Has Been Shaped By Her Waters. In Unruly Waters, Historian Sunil Amrith Reimagines Asia's History Through The Stories Of Its Rains, Rivers, C...

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...

The news headlines today can be cause for worry and despair, but to the believer in Jesus Christ we can still be full of joy as we realize that we have a b...

The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s Americ...

As The Imperial War Museum Prepared Their First World War Galleries For 2014, They Scoured Their Archives For The Best Materials Of Every Kind - And That In...

' Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache. '- Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X .At Bletchley Park, ...

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...

Forget the Government's Citizenship Testthis is the real measure of Britishness. With a wealth of brand-new material that will bring a smile of recognition ...

surveying Greek History And Civilization, This Examines Such Topics As The Minoans And Mycenaeans, City-states, Wars With Persia, Imperial Athens, Alexander...

The Story Of Charlie Chaplin's Years Of Self-imposed Exile From The United States, When He Had Become A Pariah During The 1950s Red Scare. While Living Abro...

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...

as A North American Of European Ancestry, Victoria Freeman Sought To Answer The Following Question: How Did I Come To Inherit A Society That Has Disposses...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't fo...

On May 18, 1860, in the midst of the nominating battle at the Republican National Convention, four contenders–Lincoln, Seward, Chase and Bates–wait in the...

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

For Great Britain, there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. There, in October 1942, ...

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

Tom Harpur. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [269]-271) And Index.Categories: History World ReligiousChristianity

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sen...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

Before the turn of the 19th century, ventures into uncharted lands required material or spiritual reward to justify the perils of shipwreck and hostile nati...

Every sailor's dream cruise: how a Canadian family ( including Peter, 4, and Penny, 6) built a boat in their backyard and sailed it to Africa, South America...

"This is the book I have been waiting for."--Rachel Maddow INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on de...

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...

The Search For The Historical Jesus Has Had A Long And Complicated History. Nineteenth-century Scholars, Employing The Tools Of The Historical-critical Meth...

A Highly Comprehensive And Illustrated Account Of What Makes Us What We Are: How We Evolved, How Our Bodies Work And Develop, And How We Think And Behave, T...