Our Short History, Hardcover

DescriptionAlexander Hamilton (ca. 1755 - 1854), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, He was our first Secretary of the Treasury a...

DescriptionYou only live once--if then. Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In the midst of our harried modern worl...

The A Very Brief History series provide short and accessible introductions to historical figures and their legacy as felt across the moverments and...

DescriptionAn accessible and colorful illustrated narrative of the manufacturing and social history of a favorite British tipple.Uncovering the mys...

Reducere. In this book, you will find the foundations of a hard and true story of a humble emigrant family in search of their destiny. Around the backbone of...

Reducere. An accessible summary of the planetary emergency and how to turn things around, from authors whose work is the focus of a new Netflix documentary n...

Reducere. American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are c...

Ten fascinating bite-sized biographies of the Christians people expect you to know. While Christians have always prized the Bible as our ultimate a...

Reducere. From an expert in pulmonary medicine, the story of our extraordinary lungs, the organ that both explains our origins and holds the keys to our futu...

DescriptionAmid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much...

DescriptionStories from our latest collection feature gritty murders on the streets of Chicago, New York, L.A., London and Paris, horrors in dark a...

Reducere. A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries Thanks to modern technological advances, ...

DescriptionIn Timelines, John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format. Using concise, insightful, and ...

Mahatma Gandhi was an ordinary child who tried to do something extraordinary with his life: he wanted to discover Truth. This book chronicles Gandh...

DescriptionCalling all dog-lovers: On Dogs collects essays about man's best friend by Charles Dickens, Vita Sackville-West, Brigitte Bardot, and Sh...

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observer...

Reducere. In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare f...

Reducere. The New York Times Bestseller "This is The Most Inspiring Children's Book We've Ever Seen."--Refinery29.com"The very first kids' book released by t...

Reducere. Just in time for Black History Month and every other month, too! Baltimore-based, black attorney Craig Thompson presents us with The ABCs of Black ...

Reducere. Academic Texas history falls short from the Native American perspective. With only oral traditions, for historic Native people caught up in a rapid...

Reducere. With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in hi...

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they co...

Reducere. Growing Up Country: A Demlow Family History is the result of fifteen years of research, travel to several states, and many hours of writing and rew...

Reducere. In Anna Olswanger's Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will study and live. His only possession i...

Reducere. DescriptionMitchell First's 62 short articles address interesting questions about the Hebrew language, liturgy, Jewish history, and the calendar an...

As featured in The New York Times Magazine, and on an upcoming PBS documentary series: the surprising and important story of how humans gained what...

The truth about robots: two experts look beyond the hype, offering a lively and accessible guide to what robots can (and can't) do. There's a lot o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael SchubertTranslator: Grant OvenstoneTranslator: Astrid Klee"It is a well-known fact that The Isenheim Altarpiece has...

DescriptionThe littlest readers can learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary Peop...

Reducere. Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild woman. In the corner of a library, in a dusty stack...

Enter into the worlds beyond our world, where dragons hunt through the skies on emerald wings, and metal ships hurl through the heavens across the ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Big Bang to your birthday, and (almost) everything in between, this funny and informative book tells your story.You are one of ...

Reducere. This book shows history in the making with the German and Soviet forces of World War II cooperating and then competing in the invasion and occupati...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate a...

Reducere. DescriptionA reference book on the American Thoroughbred for the breeder and owner, with particular focus on the supreme bloodlines developed durin...

Reducere. Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times bestseller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young readers edition aimed...

Reducere. Oftentimes the answers to life's biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature write...

The short Arctic summer is ending, and the reindeer are starting their winter migration. But this year, people have interfered with their journey. ...

Reducere. In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love--"one o...

Reducere. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German state-funded tel...

Reducere. The global economy deteriorated in a matter of months due to governments' mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak. General observers may describe t...

"Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." --2 Peter 3: 18 How do Christians grow? Few question the call of the Bible t...