History

For thousand of travelers, safari means vacation memories of a lifetime. This stunning, 200-page tour brings the reader through the greatest safari region...

George G. Blackburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Americas Canada20th Century

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...

Uses accounts by Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as local civilians, from diaries, letters, books, and newspapers to recreate the Battle of Gettysbu...

This book tells how to reclaim your innate magical power and take control of your destiny. With this work women can regain those long-forgotten secrets and ...

"For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, an American brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained sealed in the secret files of the KGB and...

Raising Royalty Examines The Struggles And Successes Of Thirty Sets Of Royal Parents Over The Past Thousand Years As They Raised Their Children In The Publi...

"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide ...

"Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

Will Ferguson’s first book in three years, following on the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Wi...

"Life in the city, for the millions who lived it, was once something less than the sum of their lifestyle choices: they woke up, they ate, they shoveled co...

Claire Tomalin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesWomen's Studies

Columbus, Magellan, and Drake are focused upon in this account of the early discovery voyages south of the Caribbean. BibliogsCategories: History United Sta...

F, U, C, And K. Four Letters That When Combined, Can Cause Outrage, Scandal, Embarrassment, Or Instant Rekief If You've Hit Your Thumb With A Hammer. The F-...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” —Postmedia A Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the Year In the vein ...

Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity ...

Illustrated with more than 150 unique photographs, Abandoned World War II Weapons allows the history buff and general reader to explore the detritus of this...

"A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the United States--with the disintegrating political processe...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

Recounts the dramatic and convoluted history of Istanbul during the Second World War, a city that while ostensibly neutral also teemed with spies from all s...

Chronicles the oddball cliques and fads that composed the pop culture of the 1960s--from Mods and Hippies to Surfers and Playboys--in a witty and offbeat su...

The author was a young Jewish doctor at the children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 to 1942. When the hospital was forced to close the children t...

V. 1. From Prehistory To The Eleventh Century -- V. 3. To The Year 1340 -- V. 4. Political Relations In The Fourteenth To Sixteenth Centuries -- V. 6. Econo...

In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empir...

Edited By Sarah Katherine Gibson & Arthur Milnes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Politics &...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the ...

“Rarely have we gotten such a vivid look into the reality of how big-time players avoided becoming statistics and got to be great football players and life ...

A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway. This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of ...

"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...

The Artist Under Fire / By Sherry Buchanan -- On The Road -- In The Trenches -- Going Home. Pham Thanh Tam ; Edited By Sherry Buchanan. Includes Bibliograph...

The last half of the 20th century has been an era of democratic triumph. The main anti-democratic regimes - communist, fascist, Nazi - have disappeared, and...

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and docum...

Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed. Publishers Weekly ...

The ancient Greeks set out from their mountainous land at the end of the Balkan peninsula to colonize and settle almost all the Mediterranean and Black Sea...

Mr. Mumford reveals the vigorous activity in American art and architecture during the period between 1865 and 1895. Bibliogs.Categories: Arts & Photogra...

Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead? Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection o...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intell...

By 1771, a cluster of cabins flanked what would become the most traveled east-west road between the Allegheny Mountains and Pittsburgh. This settlement, ori...

"If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive him," it was said of the plunders, raiders, and outlaws who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish Border for ...

The Legacy Of The Frontier -- The Slavery Of John Jewitt -- The Adventures Of Wilfred Grenfell -- The Saga Of Sam Steele -- The Martyrdom Of Isaac Jogues --...

"Rosalind Miles has rescued from obscurity women of astonishing ability, courage and determination. . . . An exuberant book, written in a jazzy, colorful s...

This Book Is A Tale Of Three Cities: The Fictional London That Lives In The Pages Of Writers From Shakespeare To P.d. James And Martin Amis; The Historical ...

Examines The Political Party's Activities Beyond The Lebanese Borders, From Its Financial And Logistical Support Networks To Its Covert Criminal And Terrori...

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of expl...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

A Long Short War is the one essential book for anyone who wants to understand the greatest global crisis of the past decade, one that bitterly divided publi...