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Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black lieuten...

Perfect for Canadiens fans who think they already know everythingWhether you're a lifetime fan from the days of Scotty Bowman or a new supporter of Michel ...

"Evocative, and inspiring ... So much more than a true crime." - Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of NO STONE UNTURNEDAfter surviving the ho...

A Compelling Biography Of The Great Physicist Focuses On The Intellect, And The Philosophical Tensions, That Made Einstein Such Great Scientist, And An Inte...

A Religious, Well-educated Victorian, Eliot Curwen Takes Us Into The Heart Of The Colonial Society He Encountered. His Journal Provides Insights Into Its Pe...

“Uplifting. . . . O’Rourke gets an A-plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause. . . . The happy warrior from Texas is ...

the Women Who Wed Henry Viii Are Remembered Mainly For The Ways Their Royal Marriages Ended: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. This B...

The era of Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war in both the ...

Bobby Kennedy Wasn't The Most Visible Figure In The Civil Rights Movement, But His Impact Was Transformative. As Attorney General, He Protected The Freedom ...

The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic games―by a New York Times best-selling sportswriter. A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Ki...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year • An Inc. Best Book of the Year for E...

Criticizes The Way History Is Presented In Current Textbooks, And Suggests A Fresh And More Accurate Approach To Teaching American HistoryCategories: Educat...

On June 6, 1944, Nearly 15,000 Canadians - At Sea, In The Air, And On The Ground - Joined The Long-anticipated D-day Invasion Of Nazi-occupied Europe On The...

The Legendary Strategist, The Mastermind Behind Barack Obama's Historic Election Campaigns, Shares A Wealth Of Stories From His Forty-year Journey Through T...

Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of th...

Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel. The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl i...

The Spanish Inquisition Was Responsible For One Of The Fiercest Repressions In Human History. It Fused The Triple Evil Of A Police State, A Totalitarian Ide...

As befits the Life brand, and the associations many Americans have with it, One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Life Magazine is not just a...

"S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender ...

Richard L. Nostrand's Regional Geography Framework Emphasizes The Three Themes That Are Central To Cultural Geography To Explain The Formation And Change Of...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

Now in Paperback! Updated and revised to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, Eyewitness World War I takes an in-depth look at...

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...

Houses, Gardens, And Fences : Signs Of English Possession In The New World -- Ceremonies : The Theatrical Rituals Of French Political Possession -- The Requ...

The AP World History course and test are being overhauled in 2019-2020. This revised edition is being published off-cycle in November to capture the latest...

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...

the Riveting, Action-packed True Story Of The First Soldier To Challenge The War In Iraq. as A 1st Lieutenant And Infantry Platoon Leader For The U.s. Army...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most re...

Pt. 1. Beginnings -- Geology, Climate, And Biota -- From Origins To Agriculture -- Pt. 2. The Age Of Dispersed Agriculturalists, 400 Bce-1250 Ce -- Politica...

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...

March 1999 It's no wonder that Iyanla Vanzant is an "Oprah" favorite -- she has dedicated her life to spreading a powerful message of hope and faith to wom...

Many people see Pope Francis using his authority to address global crises, from climate change to the scourge of global poverty. But he has divided his chur...

A historian and author of Gods of Eden takes on the myth of Atlantis, chronicling his earnest and often frustrating search around the world for the legendar...

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s ...

America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential ...

Review\“Superb….[Continetti] brings an insider’s nuance and a historian’s dispassion to the ambitious task of writing the American right’s biograp...

Almost 2.5 Million Americans Have Served In Afghanistan Or Iraq Since September 11, 2001. C.j. Chivers Has Reported From Both Fronts From The Beginning, Wal...

Diary-of-a-Young-GirlCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureWomen Memoirs HistoryEurope World JewishHolocaust MilitaryWorld...

The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration...

#1 bestselling author Glenn Beck gives us inspiring, courageous, and little-known stories from American history, from the Founders through September 11.Don’...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefiel...

This Fun, Informative Celebration Of Canada Is A Combination Rhyming Alphabet Book And Compendium Of Factual Information About Canada From Aurora Borealis T...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Accomplished historical author James Reston, Jr., presents the enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their wa...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the ...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller. The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulit...