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A U.s. Military Interrogator Describes His Work In Iraq And His Innovative Approach That Replaces Torture With Empathy, A Procedure That He Used To Gain 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...

For Nearly A Decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Critic Justin Davidson Has Explained New York, The City, To His Readers At New York, The Magazine. He Has Visite...

Final Report Of The National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States. The Result Of Months Of Intensive Investigations And Inquiries By A Spe...

March 1999 It's no wonder that Iyanla Vanzant is an "Oprah" favorite -- she has dedicated her life to spreading a powerful message of hope and faith to wom...

Trials have a way of changing us, for better or worse. They can humble us or harden us. They can make us run to God or away from him. Perhaps your trials ha...

Product Description- The Boer War (1899-1902) was one of the last of the romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people, fighting to establish the...

John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Ra...

In This Compelling Book, Ten Military Historians Focus Upon What Might Have Happened If At Ten Crucial Turning-points Of The War Hitler Had Taken A Differen...

This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance t...

“The single best book that we now have on Earhart’s life” (Washington Post Book World)—and the inspiration for the forthcoming major motion picture Amelia...

Donald E. Graves. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History Military United StatesGeneral

In This Dazzling Memoir, The Acclaimed Writer Behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling And Marvel's Thor Reveals How The Power Of Creativity An...

Von J. Edmund Güntz.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on S...

A Revelatory Account Of The Actions Taken By The First President To Retain His Slaves In Spite Of Northern Laws. Profiles One Of The Slaves, Ona Judge, Desc...

In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father and ...

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal you...

drawing On Hundreds Of Hours Of Face-to-face Interviews, Carlo Reveals The Story Of Richard The Ice Man Kuklinski, Who Became One Of The Most Notorious An...

Since 1895, the University of Oklahoma football program has amassed some impressive numbers: seven national championships, 47 consecutive wins, 44 conferenc...

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jet...

A New Edition Of The Bestselling Classic – Published With A Special Introduction To Mark Its 10th Anniversary This Pioneering Account Sets Out To Understa...

The Definitive Story Of The International Modeling Business--and Its Evil Twin, Legalized Flesh Peddling--model Is A Tale Of Beautiful Women Empowered And S...

Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to pa...

Maps tells the story in this innovative volume, and the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The atlas covers a period of a tho...

From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a rivetin...

Quentin Casey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format. Text In English.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Histor...

Argues That A Global Conspiracy Has Enslaved Americans With Poor Education, A Misguided Mass Media, And A Buffet Of Prescription Drugs, And Issues A Call To...

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our ...

Many wonder how an entire nation could allow Adolf Hitler - a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter - to become the architect of the most cala...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelle...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained wit...

America's foremost left-wing journalist of the post-World War I era was I.F. "Izzy" Stone. At the time of his death in 1989, Stone had completed the passage...

Susan Griffin.Categories: History World ReligiousChristianity

Biblical Traditions And Interpretations -- Early Influences On Emerging Christianity -- Early Forms Of Christianity -- Rituals And Patterns Of Worship -- St...

"On the walls of buildings . . . on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging from food...

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to e...

Romance -- Movie Kid -- The King Of The Forest -- Twice Christmas -- Early Innings -- Consultation -- We Are Fam-ilee -- Andy -- Getting There -- Dry Martin...

Drawing On A Range Of European Chronicles And Charter Collections, This Text Discusses The Launching Of The First Crusade, The Practical Experience Of The C...

Originally Published In 2016 In The United Kingdom By Simon & Schuster Uk--title Page Verso.Categories: Medical BooksHistory

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed th...

It Was A Time, Much Like Today, When Americans Feared For The Future Of Their Democracy And Women Stood Up For Equal Treatment. At The Crossroads Of The Wat...

"How many are they?" The reply came in the finest traditions of accurate situation reporting, "f***ing hundreds of them!" Mirbat, South Oman, July 19, 1972...

Imagine escaping from the terrors of plantation slavery, only to live for years in a swamp full of biting insects and deadly snakes. Picture yourself maki...

1930s Shanghai Could Give Chicago A Run For Its Money. In The Years Before The Japanese Invaded, The City Was A Haven For Outlaws From All Over The World: A...

Welcome To New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485). Michael Perry Loves This Place. He Grew Up Here, And Now -- After A Decade Away -- He Has Returned. Unab...