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When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome

Richard E. Rubenstein

The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not insist upon it. Hundreds of years after Jesus'...

Where I Was From

Joan Didion

“Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of...

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

Rich Cohen

“Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But...

Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

Andrew Carroll

Readers should fasten their seatbelts ...Carroll's explorations are strangely compelling—I started wondering what...

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages

Ann Baer

Completely persuasive and ringing with truth. If a medieval peasant woman had ever written a diary it would be like...

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

Molly Caldwell Crosby

From Publishers Weekly In a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled...

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner

JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. A classically trained...

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

Paul Preston

From Bookforum Each well-laid, impeccably researched sentence of The Spanish Holocaust , Paul Preston's latest book on...

American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation

Seth David Radwell

PRAISE for AMERICAN SCHISM "Almost every book I read about America these days makes me more pessimistic about the...

Life in a Medieval Village

Joseph Gies

A good general introduction to the history of this period." -- --Los Angeles Times Frances and Joseph Gies have been...

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press))

Benn Steil

Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History""Co-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom...

The Phoenix Program

Douglas Valentine

About the Author Douglas Valentine is the author of four books of historical non-fiction, one novella, and one book of...

La Revolución rusa contada para escépticos

Juan Eslava Galán

Book Description Un libro riguroso y ameno que nos ayudará a entender la Revolución rusa About the Author Juan Eslava...

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

Charles Allen

A fitting testament to a forgotten epic of discovery... All who relish India's antiquity should read this book." - John...

The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861

Huger William Johnstone

About the Author Huger William Johnstone was born on June 12, 1846, one of three children of William and Mary Blanch...

A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens

Lawrence Edward Babits

An important work that draws upon untapped evidence and employs new methods for interpreting traditional sources. . . ....

Navy SEAL Sniper: An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century

Brandon Webb

Review “ More than a manual, [Navy SEAL Sniper] is a look at all aspects of the deadliest marksmen on the...

Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship

Niklas Zetterling

”... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke...

The Responsible Company

Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard is a noted alpinist and the founder and co-owner of Patagonia, Inc. Hes also the co-founder, with Craig...

The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe)

Tim Blanning

x93History writing at its glorious best.x94 x97 The New York Times x93 Magnificent. Exhilarating. [Blanning has] the...

The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (The Penguin History of Europe)

T. C. W. Blanning

?History writing at its glorious best.? ?"The New York Times" ? Magnificent. Exhilarating. [Blanning has] the acuity of...

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Donald L. Miller

John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times : "With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago...

Storm Front: The Epic True Story of a Secret War, the SAS's Greatest Battle, and the British Pilots Who Saved Them

Rowland White

About the Author ROWLAND WHITE lives in London with his wife and three children, and works in publishing.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

William Craft

About the Author Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the...