Updated to cover the years 1990 through 2004, this detailed historical reference provides a chronology of seven thousand years of significant moments in history, religion, science, technology, culture, and the arts in an accessible format designed for quick reference. ... Read more

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The story of American nurses on Bataan--the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor"-- vividly chronicles their capture by the Japanese, three-year imprisonment, and eventual triumphant release, drawing on interviews with survivors, letters, and journals. Reprint. ... Read more

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In the winter of 2002, Scottish writer Rory Stewart made a seemingly suicidal trek across Afghanistan to learn more about the inhospitable country that had leapt so terrifyingly into the global consciousness. Braving icy storms, arid deserts, wolves, warlords, and the still dangerous Taliban, Stewar... Read more

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Presents a history of the Nordic warriors and explorers that plundered and traded their way across Europe, and discusses how ultimately their violence and conquests helped spread and enhance accomplishments in the arts, culture and government. ... Read more

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The Sports section at every bookstore is filled with stories about athletes and teams who triumphed over unbelievable adversity, but John Carlin may have topped them all with this tale of the 1995 South African rugby team. When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in 1994, he knew that his personal ... Read more

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Progressive talk radio personality Thom Hartmann argues that humanity is facing global catastrophe on at least three different fronts--the environment, the economy, and overpopulation. According to Hartmann, the longer people continue to pollute the environment, reproduce at an alarming rate, and pr... Read more

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Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that the... Read more

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The best-selling author of The Shia Revival profiles the non-extremist new middle class that is emerging in the Islamic world, explaining how it is reshaping the Middle East and may prove pivotal to winning key conflicts with Iran and extremists. ... Read more

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Toby Lester provides more ammunition for critics of Christopher Columbus by showing that a pair of German mapmakers named Martin Waldseem|ller and Matthias Ringmann probably played a more significant role in the "discovery" of America than did the Spanish explorer. Lester reminds readers t... Read more

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Updated to include information on twenty-first century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more, this account looks at the techniques the military uses to overcome soldiers' reluctance to kill and examines the psychological cost on fighting men and wo... Read more

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From the Publisher: From the bestselling author of A History of the World in Six Glasses, this is a riveting history of humanity told through the foods we eat. Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance; it has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organizat... Read more

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A dramatic account of the thirty-third president's controversial decision to recognize the state of Israel offers insight into the complicated issues affecting his declaration as well as the new state's fledging friendship with America, in an account that draws on previously untapped archival source... Read more

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In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion, identified with a particular place, and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was-... Read more

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A former Newsweek bureau chief and current director of communications for the UN's secretary-general describes the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War and challenges popular misconceptions, including those about America's role. ... Read more

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In this entertaining read, the man who organized the first Woodstock festival in August 1969 shares his tale of the trials and tribulations, adventures and entrepreneurial innovations that launched the most famous of all music festivals, one that caused countless cultural ripples across political an... Read more

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An accessible history of how each of the fifty United States obtained their unique shapes offers insight into such topics as the super-sized geography of Texas, Oklahoma's panhandle, and Maryland's unusual layout, in a lighthearted chronicle that features complementary information on land disputes a... Read more

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Draws on historical sources and modern interviews with key survivors to profile mob-era Cuba, in an account that describes the heights of such crime bosses as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano before the corrupt government was overthrown by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. 75,000 first printing. Reprint. ... Read more

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Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fat... Read more

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Facing a death sentence for collaborating with the Nazis by selling Hermann Goering priceless Vermeer masterpieces during World War II, Dutch art dealer Han Van Meegeren had a shocking defense: he was not guilty of selling Vermeers to the Nazis because the paintings were forgeries--he had painted th... Read more

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An chronicle of Germany's transformation during a pivotal year describes the devastation that the war's final battles inflicted on German cities, the death marches and acts of vengeance that were suffered by everyday citizens, and the first postwar year's burgeoning social, economic, and political ... Read more

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