History

Lost at Sea

by Hoehling Hoehling

Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these...

Civil War Journal: The Legacies

by William Davis

"In many arenas, the Civil War changed things both in military and civilian life," William C. Davis observes. "The roles in society of women and minorities were altered drastically. Advancements in medicine...

Civil War Journal: The Battles

by William Davis

"Of more than one thousand battles fought during the war," William C. Davis notes, "a few have risen to lasting fascination and prominence, some even regarded as 'turning points.' The battles included in this...

Liars & Legends

by Emily Ellison

Everyone loves a good story. And Liars and Legends contains 40 of the South's most interesting and . . . well . . . just plain curious stories. This book grows out of the popular Turner South television show,...

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

by Thomas Cahill

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time...

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

by Max Hastings

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.

World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers...

Ben-Gurion: A Political Life

by Shimon Peres & David Landau

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.

Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when...

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

by Thomas Cahill

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet.

How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be...

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

by David O. Stewart

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable...

Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

by Richard Grant

NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has...

How the Irish Saved Civilization

by Thomas Cahill

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.

Every year millions...

Lincoln Revisited

by Harold Holzer

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet's politics to his own struggles with...

Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith

by Merold Westphal

Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure...

Religion

by Hent de Vries

What do we talk about when we talk about "religion"? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictable--perhaps the very emergence of the...

Bloodhounds and How to Train Them

by Leon F. Whitney

Leon Fradley Whitney's book on Bloodhounds is of interest to anyone with a love of Bloodhounds or dogs in general. It contains a wealth of knowledge including chapters on the history, types and training of the...

Meyer Berger's New York: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education

by Meyer Berger & Pete Hamill

Meyer ("Mike") Berger was one of the greatest journalists of this century. A reporter and columnist for The New York Times for thirty years, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his account of the murder of thirteen...

The Question of German Guilt: Modern Spiritual Autobiography

by Karl Jaspers

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. "Are the German people guilty?"...

Roman Centurions 753-31 BC: The Kingdom and the Age of Consuls

by Raffaele D'Amato & Giuseppe Rava

A perennially popular topic the ancient world continues to yield incredibly rich archaeological finds. Based on years of detailed research, Dr Raffaele D'Amato now presents a new history on the dress and equipment...

To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Diaspora, 1750-2010

by T.M. Devine

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable...

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

by Neni Panourgi

This book simultaneously tells a story--or rather, stories--and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of...