From those wise folks who produced the bestselling INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL, comes another collection that supports their idea that we can find inspiration and comfort in secular writings as well as religious ones. This time, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim have ranged through the great writi... Read more

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Anthony Beevor's stunning account of the invasion and subsequent battles that set the stage for the Allied victory in World War II draws on the personal experiences of the soldiers, as well as official documents. Beevor provides both a grunt's eye-level report of great carnage, as well as clear and ... Read more

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A leading Israeli historian evaluates the national myth of the Jewish exile from the promised land by the Romans in first century AD, arguing that the myth had its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than biblical times, when he asserts Jewish historians reconstituted an imagined people in ord... Read more

$17.00 - $25.00

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political... Read more

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Former senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer holds a uniquely authoritative position on the events surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. In his thorough and articulate book THE GROUND TRUTH, he makes a convincing case for the Bush administration's and the defen... Read more

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Documents the founding of the monument cemetery on the former family plantation of Robert E. Lee, revealing how the site once intended for the burials of indigent soldiers became a national resting place of honor throughout the subsequent century. ... Read more

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Offers an official history of the boys' organization, in a resource packed with stories of service and heroism that is brought to life with over one thousand images from the Boy Scouts of America? archive. ... Read more

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Noted economist Friedman outlines his take on capitalism and its role in fostering a viable arena for economic and political freedom. Touching on all aspects of society, CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM looks at the influence the free market can have on issues such as education, welfare, and monetary policy. ... Read more

$10.00 - $51.00

After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity a... Read more

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Considered a classic of American literature and military autobiography, Grant's memoirs are an honest, clear retelling of the author's growing-up in Ohio, his graduation from West Point, his marriage to Julia Dent, and, most significantly, his experiences during the Mexican and U.S. Civil wars. This... Read more

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This stunning chronicle of America's overreaching exercise of power traces 14 cases in which the United States used force to change the sovereignty of foreign governments, often with serious consequences. The author begins in the 1890s, when the U.S. deposed the monarchy in Hawaii at the request of ... Read more

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A detailed portrait of American fighter pilot John Boyd examines his distinguished military career during the Korean War and his postwar efforts as a military theorist who took on the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy to transform the art of modern warfare and the American military with his revolution... Read more

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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-... Read more

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To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destiny--playing into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a ... Read more

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Dalton Fury provides a first-person account of the dramatic post-9/11 mission by the elite U.S. commando force that officially does not exist. Their mission involved "unfinished business": to go behind enemy lines and find and kill Osama bin Laden. Fury writes to set the record straight ab... Read more

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A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and an intimate look at those residing in the White House during the war years shows how Eleanor and Franklin together turned a country deep in depression into a militarily strong and economically healthy nation. Read by Edward Herrmann. Book available. ... Read more

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Documents the harrowing murders committed by decorated war veteran Gordon Stewart Northcott on his chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles between 1926 and 1928, describing the traumatic experiences of his nephew, Stanford Clark, who was held captive and forced to participate in at least 20 killings. ... Read more

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