History

With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual an...

A Riveting, Deeply Personal Account Of History In The Making--from The President Who Inspired Us To Believe In The Power Of Democracy In The Stirring, Highl...

[howard French] Takes Us Inside Nigeria, Liberia, Mali, And The Congo, Examining ... The Legacy Of Colonization In The Lives Of Contemporary Africans--jacke...

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take hig...

World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian...

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Liter...

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulou...

A Startling Account Of The Meaning Of Jesus And The Origin Of Christianity Based On Gnostic Gospels And Other Secret Texts, Written Almost 2,000 Years Ago, ...

a Survey Of The Quirks And Quandaries Of The English Language, Focusing On Our Strange And Wonderful Grammar why Do We Say “i Am Reading A Catalog” Instea...

Christianity has an image problem. Christians are supposed to represent Christ to the world. But according to the latest report card, something has gone te...

Saudi Arabia is the most important oil producing nation in history. The secretive Saudi government repeatedly assures the world that its oil fields are he...

Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us ...

Discover how man's best friend can also be our country's greatest weapon in this enthralling account of some of the most skilled working animals on the pla...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Has Revisited A Question That History Has Come To Treat As Settled, And His Researchers Have Led Him To The Inescapable Conclusion Th...

What Are The Grand Dynamics That Drive The Accumulation And Distribution Of Capital? Questions About The Long-term Evolution Of Inequality, The Concentratio...

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of cri...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing ...

Describes How The United States Evolved From A Frontier Society To The World's Lone Superpower.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGen...

Historian Edward Baptist Reveals How The Expansion Of Slavery In The First Eight Decades After American Independence Drove The Evolution And Modernization O...

Are We Losing A War Few Of Us Realize We're Fighting? Poisoned Dissidents. Election Interference. Armed Invasions. International Treaties Thrown Into Chaos....

Dan Mccaffery. Bibliography: P. [221]-223.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

A dazzling account of peace and conflict in 15th Century England which emphasises the military over the political history of the Wars of the Roses. Frequen...

Edited By Rosalie Sharp, Irving Abella, And Edwin Goodman.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the Depression, the most am...

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fai...

Tells the stories of Deborah, Joshua, Samson, David Ben-Gurion, and the Israeli Defence Forces's raid on Entebbe.Categories: History Middle EastIsrael &...

the End Of Iraq, Definitive, Tough-minded, Clear-eyed, Describes America's Failed Strategy Toward That Country And What Must Be Done Now. the Washington P...

A Detailed Narrative Of The Thirteen Months Leading To The Independence Of The Indian Subcontinent In February 1948, Centering On Major And Minor Figures An...

"Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees--a top-secret band of brothers--who waged...

Through a mixture of the contemporary and the traditional, this book makes for a fascinating, personal insight into Judaism. Tens of thousands of copies hav...

In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so sho...

Frequently Interviewed In The American News Media, Well Known To Viewers Of Programs Such As Nightline And Face The Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu Is One Of Isr...

The Prison Memoirs Of The Soviet Dissident And Jewish Activist Relate The Harrowing Events Of His Nine Years In Kgb Custody, From Interrogation To Release. ...

Provides An Account Of The Political, Socio-economic, And Cultural Developments That Have Shaped Global Events Since 1945. Pt. 1. The Cold War: Toward Sovie...

The author was a young Jewish doctor at the children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 to 1942. When the hospital was forced to close the children t...

With a new introduction by the author.The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987--not only...

It's Difficult Today To Imagine How America Survived The Great Depression--only Through The Stories Of The Common People Who Struggled During That Era Can W...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDThe definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud ...

The Astonishing But True Story Of One Of The Most Notorious Spy Cases From The Cold War--and The International Manhunt That Seized Global Attention As It Re...

Some People Seek. Jews Question. And To Answer Their Questions Comes The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, A Bible Of Judaism That, In Its Deeply Knowing And High...

the Shocking Secrets Of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork the Recent Cleaning Of The Sistine Chapel Frescoes Removed Layer After Layer Of Centuries Of...

About the Author MARSHA LEDERMAN is the Western Arts Correspondent for the Globe and Mail. Before joining the Globe, Marsha worked for CBC Radio, mostl...

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfict...

Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth Burke saw as a crying ne...

From New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned doctor and geneticist Francis Collins, a book that will forever change how you think about your ...

The Ottomans Ruled Much Of The Arab World For Four Centuries. Bruce Masters's Work Surveys This Period, Emphasizing The Cultural And Social Changes That Occ...

On October 7, 2023, Israel was ambushed by the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. The attack, underwritten by the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashe...