History

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads Finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the OLA Evergreen Award #1 National Bestseller When the Second...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

With Fiercely Detailed Information And Visuals Provided By The U.s. Army, U.s. Army Special Forces Guide To Unconventional Warfare Is Meant For Experienced ...

Yaroslav Trofimov. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Religious GroupsIslamic

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

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

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

The story of the global search for moral truthsIn this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has deve...

As U.s. Troops Prepare To Withdraw, The Shocking Tale Of How The American Military Had Triumph In Sight In Afghanistan--and Then Brought The Taliban Back Fr...

Journalist Segev Explores The Dramatic Period Before The Creation Of The State Of Israel, When Britain Ruled Over One Palestine, Complete (as Noted In The R...

A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APO...

Eric Davidson Was A Beautiful, Fair-haired Toddler When The Halifax Explosion Struck, Killing Almost 2,000 People And Seriously Injuring Thousands Of Others...

In the End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical to...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for ...

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

An Examination Of Cuban Society Through The Music Of The 1920s-30s When It Began To Embrace Afro-cuban Culture. Traces How The African Element Of Cuban Soci...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scub...

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his twenty...

OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING & EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. CURLING AT OUTER EDGE OF BOTH COVERS. CREASING AT BOTTOM OUT...

Product Description Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, ...

A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so ...

A Seasoned War Correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman Has Covered Every Major Conflict Over The Past Twenty Years, From Afghanistan To Iraq To The Congo. For The ...

Foreword / William T.r. Fox -- Pt. 1. A Paradigm For The Study Of Political Unification. Ch. 1. Delineation Of The Subject And Of Elementary Concepts. Ch. 2...

This reader reflects the genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country. It collects the voices of forty-one dive...

For over thirty years Jews have turned to Rabbi Maurice Lamm's classic work for direction and consolation. Selected by The New York Times as one of the ten...

This book offers the reflections of Latin American thinkers on the nature of philosophy, justice, human rights, cultural identity, and other issues that h...

This comprehensive narrative covers Latin America's pre-Colombian and colonial periods, including its civil war and struggle for independence. Brown's clear...

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community Is The First Systematic Study Of Coloured Identity, Its History,...

Product Description In Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Ben M. Freeman, inspired by his experiences with LGBTQ+ pride, aims to educate, inspire and e...

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that convert...

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married anoth...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

in This Angry, Funny, Smart, Contentious Book, Jonah Goldberg Offers A Startling New Perspective On The Theories And Practices That Define Fascist Politic...

#1 Bestselling Author And Radio Host Glenn Beck Exposes The Real Truth Behind The Roots Of Islamic Extremism In Muslim Teachings In This Sharply Insightful ...

Summary Of People And Events Worldwide From 1732 To 1799.Categories: HistoryWorld

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

A Non-fiction Analysis Of The Persian Gulf War And The Nature Of War And Command As Seen Through The Actions Of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., Commander ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

Since the Declaration of Independence, equality has been America's primary moral commitment. But equality of what? and for whom? In this completely revised ...

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons ...

New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American...

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what po...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

A Never-before-told World War Ii Story Of Jewish Soldiers On A Dangerous Mission Within The Third Reich--a Tale Of Adventure, Espionage, Love, And Revenge.C...

The six daughters of the eccentric Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney have inspired many books, but this group biography is widely considered to be the fine...