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Choosing Donald Trump
God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump exposed a deep divide in American politics and culture, one that pollsters and pundits didn't seem to realize was there. But Trump did, and he used it to his advantage in ways that surprised nearly everyone, even those who voted for him. Perhaps the biggest question...
The Immortalization Commission
Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history, has provided an explanation for human life and a vision of what comes after it. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...
by Sinuard Castelo, Louise Clamme
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This book is to give credit to those immigrants who contributed to the growth and economic development of Blackford County. Indiana when oil and gas were discovered here in the late 19th century. In the immigrants eyes this was the fulfillment of their dreams to come to a new hand and have the opportunity...
Indeh
An Apache Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting reading....This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest....The...
by Walter Prescott Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848
Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous...
The Gila Trail
The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 —a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the “States” did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville,...
by Howard Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This...
Son of Hamas
A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Son of Hamas is now available in softcover with an all-new chapter about events since the book’s release such as the revelation of Mosab’s Israeli intelligence handler’s true identity, and Homeland Security’s effort to deport the author.
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had...
Beautiful Mine
Women Prospectors Of The Old West
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true...
Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage
Stories of Our Most Admired President
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
How Lincoln's Faith Shaped His Leadership
Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together. But for all that's been written, little has focused on his faith and how this quality shaped...
Voices of Protest
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their...
Grand Old Party
A History of the Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
From Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the disputed election of George W. Bush and beyond, the Republican Party has been at the dramatic center of American politics for 150 years. In Grand Old Party, the first comprehensive history of the Republicans in 40 years, Lewis L. Gould traces the...
Closure
The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make peace with all that he saw there.
On the...