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A Concise Edition with clear connections, comparisons, and sources in every chapter. The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, World...

Written By Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm, Russell Floren. Accompanied By A Videocassette. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 290).Categories: Engine...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of S...

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater’s multi-award-winning food memoir ‘Toast’, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricit...

"Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carré From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street: A tale of Nazi l...

THIS IS THE BOOK THATCHANGED AMERICA Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after he...

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new repo...

Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life.The authors tell a compelling story o...

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...

The Exacerbation Of Arab-israeli Conflict At The Time Of The Six-day War In 1967 Gave Birth In Some Quarters To A Radical Revision Of Jewish-arab History. A...

Many books on the Luftwaffe in World War II have been published over the years, although the Night Fighter´s branch has been studied less often. In our Gui...

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from ...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting...

The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American ...

Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one mans opportunity to edit his life as if he were ...

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed hist...

The Authors Of This First Full-length Biography Of Maharaja Ranjit Singh In English Make Use Of A Variety Of Eye-witness Accounts, From Reports By Maratha S...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

Introduction -- In The Beginning -- Booth Finds His Destiny -- William And Catherine -- An Army Is Formed -- The Sounds Of Music -- Early Persecution -- Wom...

Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged • Includes evidence from ...

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—sin...

A Scientific Exploration Of The Advanced Ancient Civilization Known As Doggerland Or Fairland That Disappeared 5,000 Years Ago. Looks At The Latest Archaeol...

New Revised And Expanded 2015 Edition. *** The Biblical Exodus Was The Hyksos Exodus *** The Tempest Stele Of Pharaoh Ahmose I Contains A Quotation From The...

The second volume of Branch's trilogy on the civil rights era. Jeff Shesol Branch spins an intricate, seamless web of politics and personalities, ambition ...

A Vintage Books Original--copyright Page.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Elections & Political ProcessElections ...

The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Right from the beginni...

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar ...

"Wilson . . . does a tremendous job here of not only examining all that is known about Paul's life but also putting it into context with what was happening...

From The Publisher: A Gripping, Groundbreaking Biography Of The Combative Man Whose Genius And Force Of Will Created Modern Capitalism. Founder Of A Dynasty...

In the long-awaited National Book Award--shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize--winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbr...

Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

Combining In-depth Research With His Personal Experiences As The Bbc Moscow Correspondent For Almost Twenty Years, Sixsmith Tells Russia's Full And Fascinat...

Confederate Williamsburg. A Line Of Defense -- Sickly Season -- Rumors Of War -- The Battle Of Williamsburg. Sunday Skirmish -- Pandemonium Broke Loose -- A...

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, co...

This book begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state of Mississippi during the 1850s and ends with a treatment of its ...

A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics, Harry...

In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On ...

In 1880, the California woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the Pacific state won full...

This historic narrative, written by cousins who are descendants of the Low and Stiles families, spans two centuries of the intertwined families of the House...

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima Was Destroyed By The First Atom Bomb Ever Dropped On A City. This Book, John Hersey's Journalistic Masterpiece, Tells What Happ...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...

Edited By Lloyd Chiasson, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: LawCriminal Law

Dieter Herwig And Heinz Rode ; [translation From Original German Text By Ted Oliver]. Includes Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Transporta...

The Millennium Between The Breakup Of The Western Roman Empire And The Reformation Was A Long And Hugely Transformative Period--one Not Easily Chronicled Wi...

Peter Caddick-Adams, one of the world's authorities on battle field history, writes a compelling and authoritative account of the greatest battle of the Ita...

Here is the key to thought of one of our time's central moral figures. It reveals Bonhoeffer's deep, firm roots in Christian doctrine, and it relates that ...

"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of a...

Inverting The Pyramid Is A Pioneering Soccer Book That Chronicles The Evolution Of Soccer Tactics And The Lives Of The Itinerant Coaching Geniuses Who Have ...