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The Seventies
The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing...
by Robert S. Gottfried
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure...
Lost Prophet
The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures in the history of the American civil rights movement. Before Martin Luther King, before Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin was working to bring the cause to the forefront of America's consciousness. A teacher to King, an international apostle of peace, and...
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America...
Season of the Witch
Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.
Sybil Exposed
The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Sybil: a name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with sixteen different personalities. Sybil became both a pop phenomenon...
Lighten Up
Love What You Have, Have What You Need, Be Happier with Less
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The bestselling author, clutter expert, and host of Enough Already! with Peter Walsh offers a roadmap to creating a less-is-more life and how a life of less can actually be a life of great abundance.
It seems as though not a day goes by that we don’t think about money. We try to save more....
The Principal's Survival Guide
Where Do I Start? How Do I Succeed? When Do I Sleep?
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This hands-on school leadership guide for new and veteran principals and administrators offers practical advice for leading a school successfully. Want honest student input? Try texting. Got a group of angry parents? Arrange one-on-one meetings—you’ll avoid a mob scene and give each family the...
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
A handwriting expert reveals the secrets hidden in your penmanship—now featuring a new afterword analyzing the handwriting of President Donald Trump.
Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold—the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination...
The Little Blue Book
The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The indispensable handbook for Democrats
Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection...
Down to Earth Sociology: 14th Edition
Introductory Readings, Fourteenth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1981
For thirty-five years and through thirteen editions, Jim Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its fourteenth edition, the most popular anthology in sociology includes new articles on our changing world while also retaining...
The Landmark Thucydides
A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1998
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possssion for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than...
A Privilege to Die
Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
While Hamas and Al Qaeda are certainly dangerous to Israel and the West, Hezbollah and its millions of foot soldiers are the premier force in the Middle East.
Veteran Middle East correspondent Thanassis Cambanis offers the first detailed look at the surprising cross section of people willing...