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With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still mi...

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...

In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father and ...

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal you...

Quentin Casey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format. Text In English.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Histor...

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...

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our ...

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 ...

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelle...

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...

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to e...

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...

It Was A Time, Much Like Today, When Americans Feared For The Future Of Their Democracy And Women Stood Up For Equal Treatment. At The Crossroads Of The Wat...

"How many are they?" The reply came in the finest traditions of accurate situation reporting, "f***ing hundreds of them!" Mirbat, South Oman, July 19, 1972...

Imagine escaping from the terrors of plantation slavery, only to live for years in a swamp full of biting insects and deadly snakes. Picture yourself maki...

1930s Shanghai Could Give Chicago A Run For Its Money. In The Years Before The Japanese Invaded, The City Was A Haven For Outlaws From All Over The World: A...

Welcome To New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485). Michael Perry Loves This Place. He Grew Up Here, And Now -- After A Decade Away -- He Has Returned. Unab...

Hrough a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life...

'grunt' Tackles The Science Behind Some Of A Soldier's Most Challenging Adversaries -- Panic, Exhaustion, Heat, Noise -- And Introduces Us To The Scientists...

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

Traces The History Of Communism From The Antecedents Of Karl Marx, Through Its Spread To Russia And Adoption By A Group Of Radical Intellectuals Led By Leni...

An exposé of the mid-twentieth-century practice of identifying and institutionalizing children with low IQ scores recounts the story of a group of boys at ...

Wall Street Legend Alfred Lee Loomis, Who Once Owned Hilton Head Island, Was Devoted To His Hobby Of Science Experiments In His Mansion. During World War Ii...

Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revolution an...

Who Is Vladimir Putin? In Mr. Putin, Russia Experts Fiona Hill And Clifford Gaddy Argue That Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, Is In Fact A Man Of Many An...

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...

This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...An...

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...

It may be that the developers, residents, and corporate owners of the new American village have gotten exactly what they want. Like all such rare complete ...

London. 20 cm. XII, 446 p. : ill., ports. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Originally published: London: HarperCollins...

Constance B. Hieatt & Sharon Butler. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [161]-164.Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine Cooking Education & Reference...

A new edition of a classic novel from one of Canada's most sensational crime authors.Near London, Ontario, in the Lucan district, even the bravest were scar...

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined ...

One of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process o...

Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War remains one of the most iconic events of the twentieth century. In the United States, it polarized public opinion and changed for...

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get...

To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom—the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries—is impossible. Still, before...

a Fascinating And Accessible Guide To The Gods And Goddesses, Heroes And Heroines, Magical Weapons, Fabulous Beasts, And Otherworld Entities Of Celtic Myt...

"Pulitzer prize winner Kai Bird's memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating ...

Describes How A Quirky Band Of Misfit Science Students At Berkeley In The 1970s Altered The Course Of Modern Physics While Studying Quantum Theory Alongside...

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...

In this expanded paperback edition of Hitchen's slow motion citizen's cardiac arrest of the Clinton presidency, our protagonist looks at Clinton's baleful ...