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This modern edition of the political call-to-arms whose âinfluence has been surpassed only by the Bibleâ highlights Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelsâ prescient insights on capitalism (Guardian). A Communist Manifesto for the 21st-century reader concerned by the widening...
The National Book Critics Circle Awardâwinning history of the Reformationâfrom the New York Times bestselling author of ChristianityAt a time when men and women were prepared to killâand be killedâfor their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world...
The Pulitzer Prizeâ and Bancroft Prizeâwinning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe.Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the worldâs most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewildermentânow updated with new material.âFascinating . . . a...
The acclaimed narrative history of the American home front during WWII, from the attack on Pearl Harbor through 1942.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYÂ FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the worldâs Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict. Â Over...
A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nationâs top schools should beâbut arenâtâproviding: âThe ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those âsheepâ), pushy parents, and admissions mayhemâ (People).As a professor...
"A riveting . . . saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about the survivor of a World War II plane crash in Alaska's Yukon territory.Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their...
Spotlighting the years during WWII when Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France, this groundbreaking book illuminates the previously untold history of their passionate roles in the Resistance and the prodigious, revolutionary...
The author of Coyote Warrior demolishes myths about America's westward expansion and uncovers the federal Indian policy that shaped the republic. What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire...