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Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

What Does It Take, Both Physically And Mentally, To Join The World’s Most Respected—and Feared—military Units? Lewis Looks At The Origins, Training, T...

Traces The Events Surrounding The Final American Bombing Mission Of World War Ii, Identifying A Japanese Rebel Plot For A Massive Coup That Would Have Kept ...

A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years lat...

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., A Late-eighteenth-century Financial Pioneer-turned-confidence Man, Describing How He Took Advantage Of Suspicions About Paper M...

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring HeistCategories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage

America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to d...

Includes Discussion Of Contemporary Economic And Demographic Forces, In Addition To Standard Physical And Historical Geographic Material, Bone (geography, U...

With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—score the big promotion, find a soul ma...

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...

Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest EnemyCategories: HistoryMilitary

A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust...

This study examines the Norman settlement of Anglo-Saxon England, that was begun before 1066 but which was made permanent by military conquest between 1066 ...

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoi...

The compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-par...

Writing A Few Months Prior To Her Assassination, Bhutto Explores The Complicated History Between The Middle East And The West. She Traces The Roots Of Inter...

William L. Barney. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: History United States19th Century

Clarence Smoyer Began The War As A Gentle Giant, A Factory Worker From Pennsylvania Coal Country Reluctant To Unleash The Power Of The Sherman Tank He Crewe...

“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiolog...

Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama – both Christian and pagan – to contemporary soc...

Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther bac...

This text presents a clear and concise, yet comprehensive survey of the contributions of women to the history of art. Organized chronologically, the book a...

Describes Social Life And Customs Of The Working People In New York After The Revolution. Includes Sections On Apprentices And Youths, Journeymen, Master Cr...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

The True Story Of The Assassination Of Jfk, Told By Secret Service Agents Who Were There And Who Have Lived With The Guilt And Grief From That Day. When Tim...

A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, mustread book ...

Examines the role of the air force in World War II, including the nonstop bombing over Germany and the slow island by island battles in the Pacific.Categori...

A History Of Texas High School Football Teams That Have Won Four Or More State Championships Since 1920-- Rick Sherrod. Includes Bibliographical References ...

Terry Bradshaw -- Evander Holyfield -- Jerry West -- Byron Whizzer White -- Danielle Green -- Bill Yoast -- Joey Cheek -- Dwayne The Rock Johnson -- Dorothy...

Was Golf Better (to Use One Of Tiger's Favorite Phrases) Back In The Day? In [this Book], Michael Bamberger, Who Fell For The Game As A Teenager In Its Wild...

The summer of 1967 turned out to be one of the most exciting – and improbable – seasons in the history of baseball. Dubbed “The Impossible Dream,” t...

Former Republican Strategist Phillips Takes An Uncompromising View Of The Political Coalition, Led By Radical Religion, That Is Driving America To The Brink...

The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the...

Veteran political journalist Scott Farris tells the stories of legendary presidential also-rans, from Henry Clay to Stephen Douglas, from William Jennings B...

A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to Hollywood In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Bria...

In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848–1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the wel...

Examines how space technology is being used for espionage, discusses the clashes between the Air Force and the CIA for control of the vast system, and detai...

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the li...

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year It was the height of the Cold War, and a dangerous time to be stationed in the Soviet Union. One evening, while t...

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most ...

Said is acknowledged to be the pen name of the author of books in German about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution that were celebrated through...

I. Parentage And Early Life, C. 1096-1135 -- Ii. The Succession, 1135-1136 -- Iii. Mistakes, 1136-1139 -- Iv. The Empress And Her Party, 1136-1140 -- V. Dis...

In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospog...

This volume contains the first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of...

The Explosion Of Craft Beer Variety In North America Has Created A Climate Of Amazing Quality And Bewildering Options For Beer Drinkers. In Ontario, The Boo...

Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty w...

Explores the history of the trail and celebrated the frontiersmen and their dogs who braved its dangers.Categories: History United StatesState & Local ...

1. Images Of The Inuit. Film Imagery Of The Happy-go-lucky Eskimo. Nanook Reborn As Joseph Idlout. Stark Images Of Another North. Henry Larsen's Views On In...