Ruger & His Guns
Traces the history of Ruger firearms and William B. Ruger, the man who began the company by creating a new pistol in 1949....
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Strange Glory
Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-H...
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The Bible For Dummies
The Bible For Dummies (9780764552960) is now being published as The Bible For Dummies (9781119293507). While this version features an older Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the new release and should not be considered a different ...
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Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamitie...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill...
Read MoreShadow of the Giant
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a childre...
Read MoreEmpress Bianca
Follow Empress Bianca from her earliest days as a middle-class housewife in post-war Mexico as she lies, cheats, schemes and seduces her way to the top. A veritable monster of vanity and pretension, captured with deadly accuracy in Lady Colin s lucid...
Read MoreOlivia Brophie and the Sky Island
"Olivia has accidentally frozen all of the world's water. Worse, her aunt and uncle have been kidnapped by the nefarious Wardenclyffe thugs. With the help of Doug and Gnat, Olivia must fight the forces of evil to save the entire world"--...
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The Disuniting of America
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian examines the changing face of American history, demonstrating how an increasing focus on ethnicity has affected life in academic circles and on the street....
Read MoreArtists in Times of War
"Political power," says Howard Zinn, "is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect." In Artists in Time...
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Washington: A Life
From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography “Truly magnificent . . ....
Read MoreMyths of the Cherokee
Gathers folklore about the creation of the world, the characteristics of animals, the first fire, and Cherokee history and culture...
Read MoreHouse Rules
A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, "House Rules" explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship and the fallout that transforms their family forever....
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his ...
Read MoreThen They Came for Me
A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir of Maziar Bahari's brutal interrogation in Iran's most notorious prison, offering insight into Iran's turbulent recent past and uncertain future....
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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when ...
Read MoreThe Fortunes of Africa
A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people. Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the ...
Read MoreSurvival in Auschwitz
Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months in the German death camp Auschwitz is an unforgettable chronicle of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. First published in 1947, this bestselling work now includes a new afterword--a fascinating, in...
Read MoreGraven with Diamonds
'Masterly. the best work of history this year' AN Wilson, Book of the Year - Evening Standard...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. “[A] groundbreaking com...
Read MoreRelevant Linguistics
This revised and expanded edition of Paul W. Justice's popular text provides a straightforward, accessible introduction to the basics of linguistics for education students and all non-linguistics majors, covering the essentials of phonetics, phonolog...
Read MorePatterns of World History
Patterns of World History offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George Stow--each specialists in their respective...
Read MoreWild Bill Donovan
From the author of "Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers" comes an exciting and revealing biography of the father of today's CIA....
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
The history of the Emerald Tablets is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C....
Read MoreDream Work
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversi...
Read MoreChampions Forever
Autobiography of a small town high school athletic coach who instilled Christian values among his athletes....
Read MoreDot to Dot for Grown-Ups
Dot-to-dots have never been so much fun or so varied and rewarding. Using a minimum of 300 dots per picture, artist David Woodroffe has created more than 120 intriguing visual puzzles for you to reveal. The wide-ranging themes include famous landmark...
Read MoreQueen Liliuokalani
Discover Queen Liliuokalani, The Hawaiian Kingdom's Last Monarch... The 1800's, particularly the latter half of that century, was a time full of change, orchestrated chaos, and new beginnings. England was in the throes of the Industrial Revolution. T...
Read MorePractical Management of the Dizzy Patient
The thoroughly updated Second Edition of this highly acclaimed text is a practical, concise, and current guide to diagnosis and treatment of the various diseases that cause dizziness and imbalance. The book progresses from symptoms to anatomy and phy...
Read MoreReflections from a Mother's Heart
This hardcover memory journal offers a beautiful place to record a mother's life experiences-family history, childhood memories, lighthearted incidents, cherished traditions, dreams and spiritual adventures for her children to treasure....
Read MoreHomage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless ...
Read MoreGreat Ideas V the Tao of Nature
Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, THE TAO OF NATURE is...
Read MoreInside Star Trek
A history of the classic television series describes the 1964 collaboration of the authors and Gene Roddenberry and chronicles the personalities, production methods, and special effects that resulted in the show's phenomenal legacy...
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The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
"Georges Ifrah is the man. This book, quite simply, rules. . . . It is outstanding . . . a mind-boggling and enriching experience." –The Guardian (London) "Monumental. . . . a fascinating journey taking us through many different cultures."–The Times ...
Read MoreGoing Dirty
Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the tele...
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Genesis Evolution
Do science and religion really have to be at odds with each other? Are they compatible? Does there really need to be a debate about evolution vs. God?What if Moses actually understood the science behind the earth's history, and the language of God in...
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The Pursuit of Power
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill move...
Read MoreAn Unquiet Mind
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experi...
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very ...
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A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel (Benjamin Weaver)
Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family—until he is asked to investigate his...
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantatio...
Read MoreAnders gedacht: Text and Context in the German-Speaking World
Written entirely in German, this content-based program prepares intermediate-level German students to communicate meaningfully in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes. With a stimulating, comparative focus on topics such as contempor...
Read MoreBarbarians at the Gate
Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in Octobe...
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona survivor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Clas...
Read MoreA Life on the Road
For more than 30 years, Charles Kuralt, the host of CBS News' "Sunday Morning," has traveled the world's byways. In this warm, deeply affecting memoir, Kuralt retraces the steps of a journey that began when he was a young CBS news reporter franticall...
Read MoreThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
What is human consciousness, where did it come from, and how does it determine who we are and how we live in the world? At the heart of this book is the theory that human consciousness did not develop over time--that, in fact, ancient peoples from me...
Read MoreHarperCollins Bible Dictionary - Condensed Edition
The product of dozens of this country's finest biblical scholars, the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary is the most complete, up-to-date, and accessible guide for the study of the Bible available today. This newly condensed edition makes that acclaimed ...
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