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"At a time when modernism and Marxism are both under attack as outmoded, Eugene Lunn's rich and detailed study of the years of their most creative interacti...

Millions of readers have thrilled by bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning wor...

From The Ashes Is A Remarkable Memoir About Hope And Resilience, And A Revelatory Look Into The Life Of A Métis-cree Man Who Refused To Give Up. Abandoned...

Never before in German military history did the German Artillery possess such variety and magnitude as in the World War II era. From North Cape to Tobruk, B...

The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth's history….The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly ...

The Historical Foundations Of Women's Power In The Creation Of The American Welfare State, 1830-1930 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Borderlands: Women, Voluntary A...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

This is a book about TRUTH--and all the ways we try to avoid it--from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up. We live ...

The Subaltern Studies Collective, Founded In 1982, Was Begun With The Goal Of Developing A New Critique Of Both Colonialist And Nationalist Perspectives In ...

Through Fire and Water presents the Mennonite faith story within the sweep of church history. This engaging text uses stories of men and women, peasants an...

With Each Passing Year, Veterans Of The Great War Grow Fewer In Number. Yet The War Itself Continues To Attract Attention And Inspire Anger. Fierce Battles ...

It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been wat...

It’s difficult to imagine today–when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant spor...

Depicts Some Of The Most Compelling Aerial Combat Of Any War -- The Rescue Team, Call Sign Sandy, Flying Single-engine Relics Of World War Ii, Who Brought B...

A Guide To Understanding The Indian Act And Its Impact On Generations Of Indigenous Peoples, As Well As An Examination Of How Indigenous Peoples Can Return ...

Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the ...

Saya S. Shiraishi. Southeast Asia Program Publications. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [169]-183)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Anthrop...

The Cradle Of Civilization Rocked First In India -- Aum And Uma: The Foundational Deities Of Pagan And Non-pagan Religions -- Aryan Orthodoxies And Sind -- ...

For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few k...

This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape. Categories: Hist...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...

For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

With pages and pages of horrible facts about the Ancient Egyptions, youngnon-fiction lovers will learn all about the dire details of mummy-making, thetruth ...

For How Much Longer Can Canada Expect To Get A Free Ride? With 9/11 And The International “war On Terrorism,” The Time Has Come To Ask Some Hard Questio...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was repr...

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for gi...

***new York Times Bestseller*** ***best Books Of 2018 Selection By*** * Washington Post * People * Npr * Esquire * Elle * Wired * Refinery 29 * “in A Year...

A Fascinating Account Of The Music And Epic Social Change Of 1973, A Defining Year For David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, The Rolling S...

Clive Ponting. Previous Ed.: New York: Penguin, 1993. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyEnvir...

This Book Recounts The Story Of Three Cambridge-educated Englishmen And The Women With Whom They Chose To Share Their Commitment To Reason In All Parts Of T...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the...

This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared r...

The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive ...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

The Islamic State Has Stunned The World With Its Savagery, Destructiveness, And Military And Recruiting Successes. What Explains The Rise Of Isis And What D...

Love, fame, war, and espionageCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureAsian & Asian American

Monica Black's A Demon-haunted Land Is A Revelatory Counterhistory Of Postwar Germany, Not As A Reborn Democracy But As A Nation Convulsed By Apocalyptic Vi...

The Hero Of Hammondsport -- The Americas -- The Nancy Boats -- The Roaring Twenties -- Lean Years -- Good Years -- Coming Of Age -- The Great Clippers -- Th...

What Was It Like To Work In A Canadian Second World War Munitions Factory? What Were Working Conditions Like? Did Anyone Die? Just How Closely Did Female Em...

From Religion, To Language, To The Stories Rooted In Our Faith And History Books, The Nile River Has Proven To Be A Constant Fixture In Mankind's Tales. In ...

Rosemary Neering. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 139) And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: HistoryUnited States

A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A...

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing t...

Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in the second edition of Tom Acitelli's The Audacity of Hops: The History of ...

“A protest against the wall and a forecast about its future.”—Allison Arieff, The New York Times "Rael’s courageous mixture of subversion and compr...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...