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The Story of Christianity

David Bentley Hart

A theologian of exceptional quality - but also a brilliant stylist― Dr. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of...

Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream

Conor Dougherty

“[I] seriously admir[ed Golden Gates ]. It focuses on the acute shortage of affordable housing in the San Francisco...

Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America

Jim Rasenberger

“The story of how Colt raised himself from frontier huckster to great American industrialist is the subject of Jim...

Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen , Professor of English at Providence College, is the editor and translator of the Modern Library edition...

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (New Press People's History)

Michael Parenti

From Publishers Weekly Why did a group of Roman senators gather near Pompey's theater on March 15, 44 B.C., to kill...

For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012, 3rd Edition

Allan R. Millett

A work of fine research, peer review and precise, evenhanded writing that is standing the test of time." -- Kirkus...

Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church

H. W. Crocker

Mr.Crocker's book is engaging, provocative, and eminently readable. It should be around for Vatican III."— William F....

Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Alexander Watson

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History Winner of the Wolfson History Prize The Society of Military...

Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

Patrick Woodhouse

About the Author Patrick Woodhouse is Canon Precentor of Wells Cathedral where he has responsibility for music and...

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)

Mike Davis

Review “Davis’ work is the cruel and perpetual folly of the ruling elites.” — New York Times “As central to...

Banaras

Diana L. Eck

Review In Banaras, Diana Eck... has written a notable book about this greatest of Indian pilgrimage sites.... Her...

The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics)

Friedrich Engels

About the Author David McLellan is a leading scholar of Marx and Marxism, and the editor of Marxism: Essential Writings...

Battle: The Story of the Bulge

John Toland

The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the...

Intrepid Aviators: The True Story of U.S.S. Intrepid's Torpedo Squadron 18 and Its Epic Clash With the Superbattleship Musashi

Gregory G. Fletcher

“ Intrepid Aviators provides a rare look at a successful but little-appreciated unit in the Pacific War. Torpedo...

War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)

James M. McPherson

McPherson, professor emeritus of Princeton and dean of Civil War historians, enhances our knowledge with this history...

Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth

Mark David Hall

Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors...

The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

Janet Martin Soskice

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Yearxa0A Washingtonxa0Post Best Book of the Yearxa0A Library Journal Best...

Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

Stephen Dando-Collins

A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X--arguably the...

Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Matthew Brzezinski

From Booklist Much has been made of supposed Jewish passivity in the face of escalating Nazi terror. This ignores the...

The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin Classics)

the Younger Pliny

Pliny (c. AD 61-113), axa0prominent lawyer and administrator,xa0was also a prolific letter-writer. Betty Radice was an...

Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace

D. C. B. Lieven

About the Author Dominic Lieven is professor of Russian history at the London School of Economics. His previous books...

Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War

Richard M. Ketchum

“This is superbly researched, full-scale narrative history at its best.” ― David McCullough “More than a...

Vimy

Pierre Berton

From the Inside Flap ster dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in...

The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

Lucy S. Dawidowicz

“A forceful blend of narrative and conclusion . . . a clarification of modern history’s most horrifying passages”...