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On Its Release, The Seven Volume A People's History Of Christianity Was Lauded For Its Commitment To Raising Awareness Of The Ways In Which Ordinary Christi...

How can we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it r...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

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

James Toth Traces The Life And Thought Of Sayyid Qutb, The Egyptian Thinker And Islamist Martyr Branded By The New York Times Magazine As The Philosopher Of...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

an Outstanding And Authoritative Biography Of One Of Britain's Greatest Masters. publishers Weekly phenomenal Drinking Habits, Chronic Sleep Deprivation, A...

how Have Major Civilizations Of The Last Two Millennia Treated People Who Were Attracted To Their Own Sex? In A Narrative Tour De Force, Louis Crompton Ch...

"When I think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, some words Gorky used about Tolstoy come into my mind -- 'Look what a wonderful man is living on the earth!' Reading [...

Atlas of the Greek World is an extraordinary approach to the study of one of the great civilizations of the world - Ancient Greece. Using an atlas format, ...

Beekman Place, One Of The Most Exclusive Addresses In Manhattan, Hasn't Always Been Home To The Rich. In The 1930s, When Bluebloods Like The Vanderbilts And...

The legendary icon tells his story—a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five d...

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinat...

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....

This Is The Dramatic Account Of The Search For Evidence In Recently Opened Files On The Assassination Of The Thirty-fifth President Of The United States ......

In The Years He Served On And Eventually Chaired The House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Chaffetz Gained Crucial Insight Into The Inner Work...

By Mike Filey. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Arts & Photography ArchitectureHistory

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the...

Jay Leno's Tonight Show comes alive in this book by insider Dave Berg, who spent 18 years as Jay's co-producer. There were always two shows: the one on sta...

What Does It Mean To Serve? Bestselling Author Jody Mitic Brings Together Veterans And Active Military Personnel From Across Canada To Tell Us, In Their Own...

Sharp full-color photographs, a simple and concise text, and a newspaper-style format report the major events and people of the century, from world wars to ...

When And Why Do Groups Target Each Other For Extermination? How Do Seemingly Normal People Become Participants In Genocide? Why Do Some Individuals Come To ...

equipping Readers With A Solid Understanding Of ?the Big Picture,? The New Seventh Edition Of Findley And Rothney's Best-selling Twentieth-century World T...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the w...

Since The Publication Of The First Edition Of Why Air Forces Fail, The Debate Over Airpower's Role In Military Operations Has Only Intensified. Here, Eminen...

The Civil War's last great unknown naval war story Publishers Weekly This lively account of the first submarine to sink an opposing ship is an excellent ...

A Holocaust Memoir About Surviving The Notorious Dachau Concentration Camp. For Everyone Because These Stories Need To Be Remembered.Categories: History Wor...

The basis for the Academy Award®-winning movie!"A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels...

A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest d...

"At the heart of "American Widow" is the notion of Sept. 11 as a personal, rather than a national or political, tragedy, which, this achingly tender work re...

A Portrait Of The Israeli Political And Military Leader Evaluates His Decisive Roles In Major Historical Events Throughout The Past Four Decades While Analy...

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

"At the heart of this sweeping tale of adventure, discovery and exploration is one woman's extraordinary journey, inspired by her love for a man she had not...

A New York Times bestsellerAmerica’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the...

Elegantly Tracing The Intellectual History Of Computer Science, Foer Puts The Dna Of The Very Idea Of Tech Under The Microscope. Google, Facebook, Apple, An...

Born In 1948 In Abu Dhabi, The Author Knew Fierce Poverty In The Years Before Fabulous Oil Wealth Transformed His Country For Ever. He Grew Up In The Ruler'...

Battle Of Gettysburg Maps -- Union Brigades -- Corps (reynolds, Doubleday, Newton) -- 1st Division (wadsworth) -- 1st Brigade (meredith) -- 2nd Brigade (cut...

This is the new 3rd edition of Angus Baxter s classic In Search of Your Canadian Roots, now brought up to date with revised listings of finding-aids, recor...

Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism....

A bold and important history of lesbian-feminism on the Florida coast.In 1977, two lesbian couples living in St. Augustine, Florida, found a row of small be...

As One Of The Best-known Honky-tonkers To Appear In The Wake Of Hank Williams's Death, Faron Young Was A Popular Presence On Nashville's Music Scene For Mor...

Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George ClooneyThe #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in...

In The Canadian Criminal Justice System, Aboriginal Peoples Are Overrepresented As Both Victims And Offenders. The Aboriginal Incarcerated Population In Can...

A comprehensive and insightful look at the modern workplace and how employees are managed, where the new approach is driven by the quirks of financial accou...

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move i...

Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, Canada's Great War Album is an unprecedented and remarkable collection...

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that ...