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During the Spanish Civil War, women - long oppressed in Spain - were active both on the front and in the rear guard. This book is the first to focus on Span...

Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most ...

A New York Times bestseller. "My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the messes where we learn the most--as long as we slo...

In November 1909, thousands of factory workers walked off the job to protest the terrible working conditions in New York City factories. Joining the picket ...

the Winners Manual: For The Game Of Life Shares Ohio State Football Coach Jim Tressel's Big Ten Fundamentals For Success: Attitude, Discipline, Faith, Han...

One of the greatest success stories ever told unfolds in the pages of this compelling, three-dimensional book. Through intimate letters, journals, and diari...

Pete Hamill. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 283-289).Categories: History United StatesState & Local

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring e...

Now a National Bestseller!\Bestselling author and former Speaker Newt Gingrich reveals how Big Government Socialism is crippling America—and offers strate...

In This Book, Joanne Freeman Offers A Major Reassessment Of Political Culture In The Early Years Of The American Republic. By Exploring Both The Public Acti...

Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president....

Presents A Selection Of Letters Written To Tom Brokaw In Response To His Book The Greatest Generation, In Which He Examines The Lives And Experiences Of The...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a y...

For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

They were held in brutal captivity―and managed to make it out alive. This is their story. The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJ...

the Widely Anticipated Memoir Of Legendary Ace American Fighter Pilot, Robin Olds robin Olds Was A Larger-than-life Hero With A Towering Personality. A Gr...

...offers historically valuable, and tantalizing, insights into the internal workings of the Reagan Administration and the Machiavellian world of Washingto...

updated And With A New Afterword national Book Award Finalist a time, newsweek, washington Post, chicago Tribune, And new York Times Book Review Best Book ...

Here is a wide-ranging, unique, and personal view of the evolution of modern Ireland over three-and-a-half centuries. Lively biographical footnotes add a fu...

This study provides a much-needed historical overview of the main developments in the theory and practice of Christian mission in this century. Part 1 descr...

Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Ar...

No Longer The Exclusive Province Of The Far Right And Far Left, Anti-semitism Finds A Home In Identity Politics And The Reaction Against Identity Politics, ...

A compelling argument that connects the lost treasure of the Knights Templar to the mysterious money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, that has baffled treas...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

"Nowhere else have I found the passion for flavor that encompasses the lives of Louisianians, day in and day out," writes Emeril Lagasse. In Louisiana Real...

In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic ...

In 1665 the Carignan-Salières Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based eco...

At the heart of the empire Japan won and then lost in the Pacific War was Manchukuo, a puppet state created in Northeast China in 1932. Not unlike India for...

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the ne...

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turne...

"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift--just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." --Malachy McCourt, New York Times b...

For The First Time Anywhere, The First-person Account Of The Planning And Execution Of The Bin Laden Raid From A Navy Seal Who Confronted The Terrorist Mast...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path...

Integrating Interviews With Individuals Ranging From Senior Policymakers To Frontline Soldiers, A Look At The Persian Gulf War Shows How The Conflict Transf...

national Bestseller“a Triumph Of Popularization: Extraordinarily Knowledgeable, Informal In Tone, Amusing, Wide-ranging, Smartly Paced.” —the New York Time...

This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not o...

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

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 "The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper's To Start a War:...

A provocative history that reveals how guns―not abortion, race, or religion―are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work exa...

Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus relig...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

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...

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-St...

Early Modern England, 14851714: A Narrative History is a lively, up-to-date survey of the TudorStuart period. The narrative shows how England transformed it...

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...