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- With arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed America and the World would be changed forever and for the better.
- A cluster of five countries—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Cost Rica—are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations differ in their histories and politics, they...
- In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq.
- Chancellorsville is the fourth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. After Will and Mac Brannon return to their units, the Confederate caus...
- This New York Times best-seller is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War, the rise of militant Islam, and of a colorful congressman from Texas who conspired with a rogue CIA opera...
- Modern chemistry emerged from the historical traditions of metalworking (beginning as early as the Bronze Age in 3500 BC); medicine (especially "iatrochemistry", which emerged in the Renaissance); ...
- This is the seventh book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. While two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and Cory was a...
- With his simulated day-by-day reportage, prize-winning journalist-historian Jeffrey St. John makes you an eyewitness to the 1787-1788 political battle to ratify the U.S. Constitution. And what a ba...
- What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China? Does America’s policy toward China make sense? In this vigorous look at China’s political evolution and direction, Mann offers a startling vision of our future with China that will have a profound impact for decades to come.
- Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences.
- A fascinating and illuminating audio portrait of the life and career of one of Britain's greatest leaders, recounted by those who knew him and in his own words from the BBC archive.
- Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches...
- Armed with vast statistical research, economist Thomas Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the civil-rights movement as we know it today was erected, “that discrimination leads to poverty and other adverse social consequences and . . . that adverse statistical disparities imply...
- A Union General's battle stories. In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and the battles he fought.
- All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally imp...
- The Army of the Potomac attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker makes yet another attempt, but Stonewall Jackson turns his flank at Chancellorsville. In ...
- Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the battlefield, which finally decided the fate of this nation.
- From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
- From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
- "The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the human race," wrote Bruce Catton. According to the New York Times, this work is "scholarly, judicious, clear, and ...
- In this landmark study, Burckhardt chronicles the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscoveries of Greek and Roman culture and the new emphasis on the role of the individual. These went hand in hand with scientific achievement and a more naturalistic depiction of the world...
- In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a high...
- Of the expeditions led by Yossi Harel from 1946 to 1948, it was the voyage of the Exodus to Palestine that became a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all that neither guns, cannons, nor warships c...
- The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War.
- Sowell’s essays paint some hard truths, which are backed by his brilliant scholarship. He discusses many of the extraordinary ideas that preoccupy the liberal political agenda, exposing their flaws and submitting them to reprimand. He lays bare the errors of such phenomena as affirmative action,...
- Traditional scientific determinism has suggested that the natural world is regular and predictable, and that timeless and universal nature is best understood by studying its parts in isolation. For...
- John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corrup...
- Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left. At the heart of the conflict of visions are questions about the moral and intellectual...
- Despite being the leading expert in his field, Fitz has never really fulfilled his potential, never written the great book on extinct species that everyone expected from him when he was setting out.
- In 1783, America emerged from a long and bitter war for Independence. The 13 colonies were now 13 sovereign states, bound together by the Articles of Confederation. After years of war, men like Tho...
- You are there, in 1787, at America's constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast jou...
- On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
- The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
- The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
- The Da Vinci Code: Harmless fiction or a hidden agenda aimed at the foundations of Christianity?
- This island was once a clearinghouse for importing slaves into the New World. It later became one of the world's few remaining bastions of Marxism, proclaiming socio-economic equality. In both form...
- The Curran case framed an era, from 1965 to 1990, and left behind unresolved questions about authority and freedom in the Catholic Church today. Through biography, history, theology, and courtroom ...
- Best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published in 1859 a vastly important work: On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin ...
- The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns, the War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites. Lakota historian Joseph M. Marshall III reveals the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the battle, in an account that has until now only been...
- Rodriguez portrays Mexico and the United States as moral rivals for California. Tragic Mexico and the comedic United States, ironically, have traded roles by the end of the twentieth century. Rodrigue
- They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits...
- A stirring performance of the foundation document of American liberty...
- Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
- One of the greatest texts in the English language.
- After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped gro...
- One unforgettable year in Charles Osgood's childhood in Baltimore during WWII.
- As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home.
- Subtitled True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors, this is the ultimate book of ordeals, with remarkable stories of castaways and other survivors from the 1500s to the present. Included are a...
- This is an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of violent Darfur by a former American Marine who became a military observer for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan, it is also a powerful memoir of one soldier’s awakening to...
- Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
- A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three decades.
- Science is a way of knowing that's characterized by the rules of logic and the methods of experiment. But the conflict between logic and experiment has created a long-standing tension in scientific...
- From the vogue for very young models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, childhood in America today is in precipitous decline. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Postman suggests that the divisions between childhood and adulthood are eroding under the...
- America's courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left's camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change, precisely what author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed, liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant position in the...
- The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a wo...
- Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
- In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerge to illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during wartime: a Japanese -American at an internment camp; a Native American ...
- Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves - Manhattan.
- Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
- Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
- With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, of the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics, and ...
- Peter Huchthausen, in a patrol boat on the Mekong River, rescued a badly wounded Vietnamese child, Nguyen Thi Lung, arranged for her treatment and education, then lost track of her during the Tet ...
- In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, followed by the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. He firmly established (1) the idea that all judgement about motion is a ma...
- An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
- Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this fascinating evocation of Elizabethan...
- President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, emancipating all slaves in the territories of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, are brought to life through an engaging performance...
- Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud ada the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals were sent to Alcatraz Island—"The Rock". Also referred to as "Hellcatraz...
- The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration.
- Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans...
- Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith...
- Eyewitness 1920 - 1929 presents the history of the Twentieth Century, based on contemporary accounts of events as they happened, using BBC Archives.
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, wtitten by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.
- Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
- Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
- The unique history of the Twentieth Century - 1990 to 1999.
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