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Aristotle is one of the greatest thinkers in the Western tradition as well as one of the most difficult to understand. Contributors to this volume do not at...

For A Half Century Following The End Of World War Ii, The Seemingly Permanent Cold War Provided The United States With An Organizing Logic That Governed Nea...

A ... Personal Detective Story, An Uncovering Of Secret Pasts, And A Book That Explores The Creation And Development Of World-changing Legal Concepts That C...

Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the torah.Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis reminds us of the principlesnecessary for living a better and more committed life.Insp...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, an...

on January 15, 2009, The World Witnessed One Of The Most Remarkable Emergency Landings In Aviation History When Captain Chesley "sully" Sullenberger Skill...

The only journalist ever to interview "C" presents a definitive, illustrated biography of the British spymaster and a chronicle of his legendary careerCateg...

The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system....

A biography of Cochise, the Apache chief, whose life illustrates the values of trust and truth.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cu...

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S....

Based on exhaustive research by a trained historian, the definitive work on the Ripper murders includes much new material, the discovery of a possible new v...

They call it 'collateral damage', but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention', i...

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S....

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite dete...

Its hooves were supposedly a cure for epilepsy; it is the mascot of the Seattle Mariners baseball team and the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch; and...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was...

Preface / R. Baine Harris -- A Word Of Thanks / Paulos Mar Gregorios -- Does Geography Condition Philosophy? On Going Beyond The Occidental-oriental Distinc...

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works i...

Our world is in crisis mode, but God is still on the throne in this powerful and prophetic book from New York Times bestselling author and pastor John Hagee...

BATTLES ARE RAGING BETWEEN ANGELS AND DEMONS OVER YOUJohn Hagee's breathtaking biblical tour of the three heavens takes you inside the timeless clash betwe...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

In this controversial new book, a prominent Israeli historian at Haifa University revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Decisively debunki...

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she b...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

Physical description; 58 p. : ill., maps ; 16 cm. Subjects; Paganism - Ireland - History. Paganism - Ireland - History - Pictorial works. Sacred space - Ire...

For More Than Three Decades, The Women's Movement And Its Scholars Have Exhaustively Studied Women's Complex History, Roles, And Struggles. In Manhood In Am...

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The First Book In The Women's Suffrage And The Struggle For Democracy Series Provides A Nuanced View Of Women's Fight For The Vote At A Federal Level. Accla...

Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and ...

The official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow, The Crown b...

From The Bestselling Author Of Lawrence In Arabia, A Gripping History Of The Early Years Of The Cold War, The Cia's Covert Battles Against Communism, And Th...

Hailed For Her “fearless Indictment Of The Most Powerful Man In Russia” (the Wall Street Journal), Award-winning Journalist Masha Gessen Is Unparalleled...

As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza Spent More Time Alongside President Barack Obama Than Almost Anyone Else. His Years Photographing The...

An extension of Prof. Landes' chapter in Volume VI of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe includes a full-scale analysis of modern industrial Europe fr...

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseba...

Based on a landmark BBC2 series, The Rise and Fall of Rome follows a fast-paced, plot-driven narrative, focusing on the pivotal moments in Roman history, an...

From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred exposé of the people and institutions who are letting Amer...

K.n. Chaudhuri. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 252-262.Categories: HistoryMiddle East

Largely based on the information conveyed by bestselling novels, magazines, cartoons, movies and television shows, this is an illuminating look at American ...

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the sta...

Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as wel...

Cutting-edge thinkers on the origins of civilization, the Giza pyramids, pre-Columbian and early America, and the power of human consciousness • With co...

Land of the Firebird is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to r...

Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario's towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; ...

“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine ““In deligh...

A provoking and timely examination of one of the most important moments in Church history.In 381 AD, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman Empire, issued...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's...