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by Gwen Ifill
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Political eBooks - from veteran journalist Gwen Ifill about the election of President Barack ObamaIn The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.
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by Bernard Cornwell
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Historical Drama eBooks - from bestselling author Bernard Cornwell
An epic of redemption, Agincourt follows a commoner, a king, and a nation's entire army on an improbable mission to test the will of God and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. From the disasters at the siege of Harfleur to the horrors of the field of Agincourt, this exhilarating story of survival and slaughter is at once a brilliant work of history and a triumph of imagination — Bernard Cornwell at his best.
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by Jon Meacham
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New, definitive eBook biography of the first true people's President
Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, the orphan Andrew Jackson fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. His election ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics...
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"What passes for political drama today pales in the reading of Jon Meacham's vividly-told story of our seventh president. The rip-roaring two-fisted man of the people, duelist, passionate lover, gambler and war hero, was also a prime creator of the presidency as the fulcrum of executive power to defend democracy...Meacham argues that Jackson should be in the pantheon with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln for this and for his role in preserving the Union and rescuing democracy from elitism. He makes the historian's case with wit and scholarship but Meacham also has the novelist's art of enthralling the general reader much as David McCullough did for the lesser figure of John Adams. Reading "American Lion" one is no longer able to look on the gaunt, craggy face on the $20 bill without hearing the tumult of America in the making." Tina Brown
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eBooks - Historical Fiction from Bestselling mystery writer Dennis Lehane
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, Lehane's long-awaited 8th novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families; one black, one white; swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power...
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History ebooks - The Lost History of Christianity
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Shocking history of how the churches that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church died. Unveils a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. The leaders of these churches ruled the Middle East for centuries, becoming the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire...
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'In leaner, clearer prose than ever before, Jenkins outlines and analyzes this history, which few present-day Christians have even heard of. This may be the most eye-opening history book of the year.' Booklist
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by H.W. Brands
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A roadmap for Obama? Sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century
Sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy in America during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.
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eBooks - Historical Fiction - From Bestselling Author Donna Jo NapoliWho was the girl behind the smile? A bestselling author spins Mona Lisa's tale. Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa's tale-a story of passion, intrigue, loss, and, most of all, love. Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she is too plain. Then, on a fateful visit to glittering Florence, she catches the eye of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and falls for a boy named Giuliano de' Medici. It is a dangerous time to be-or be involved with-a Medici. As tragedy and chaos threaten their happiness, Elisabetta faces the bittersweet truth of love.
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by Russell Shorto
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An eBook that should be on everyone's reading list Remarkable historical detective story about the foundations of modern thought - New York Times Review
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. 16 years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France...
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"Many strains of thought converge around Descartes and his physical remains.... Mr. Shorto has used them as the basis of an investigative book...[that] attest to Mr. Shorto's intellectual adventurousness and dogged curiosity....Mr. Shorto leaps from one intriguing topic to another, doing it with verve... His insights are keen. And he is as drawn to great, overarching ideas as he is to historical factoids. Descartes' posthumous journey happens to be rich with both." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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by Robert Baer
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Significant new eBook about a nation that could change our history - politically explosive
Over the past 30 years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America's destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book's central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran's grip on America's future is even tighter. As ex--CIA operative Robert Baer masterfully shows, Iran has maneuvered itself into the elite superpower ranks by exploiting Americans' false perceptions of what Iran is--by letting us believe it is a country run by scowling religious fanatics, too preoccupied with theocratic jostling and terrorist agendas to strengthen its political and economic foundations...
"A masterpiece...Baer's brilliant analysis of Sunni versus Shia, Arab versus Iranian, and Christian versus Muslim is shocking, revealing, and provocative. Baer lifts the veil of Western media hype and challenges the simplistic solutions offered by 'experts' whose vision is blurred by the past. Through his knowledge, long-term experience, and ability to assess the changing landscape of this vital region, he not only shatters the foundations of conventional thinking, but also offers a practicable blueprint for turning things around." John Perkins, author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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by Steven Pressfield
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eBooks - Historical Fiction by Steven Pressfield Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare -- Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of War, and The Afghan Campaign -- have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military history, a supremely literate and engaging storyteller, and an author with acute insight into the minds of men in battle.
"No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield." Vince Flynn
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by Bob Brier, Jean-Pierre Houdin
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eBooks - History and Science - the riveting story of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldNine years ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuries-old mystery of how the Great Pyramid was built. For ten hours a day, he labored at his computer to create exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the interior of the Great Pyramid. After five years of effort, the images rotating on his computer screen provided evidence of an astonishing secret. Corkscrewing up the inside of the Great Pyramid is a mile-long ramp, unseen for 4,500 years. The pyramid was built from the inside.
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by Patrick J. Buchanan
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eBooks - Provocative History from Pat Buchanan
Monumental and provocative history - Pat Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins... Grand and bold insight
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by Edward Kritzler
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History eBooks - From Edward Kritzler, a new look at Jewish pirates on the high seasAt the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. JEWISH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is the entertaining saga of a hidden chapter in Jewish history and of the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery. ebook in history ebooks, pirate ebooks, Jewish ebooks, adventure novels, non-fiction ebooks from Edward Kritzler - works with Sony PRS 505 eBooks Reader, Sony PRS 700 eBooks Reader, Cybook eBooks Reader, iRex Iliad eBooks Reader
"[T]his entertaining and surprising book....is a wide-raging saga filled with attractive and repellant personalities.....Kritzler captures the spirit of that violent, lawless epoch and combines it with an interesting ethnic perspective." Booklist
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by Jonathan Kirsch
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eBooks - A History of Terror in the Name of God from bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch The twelfth century birthed a new and sinister brand of sanctioned terror, an international network of secret police and courts, an army of inquisitors whose sworn duty was to seek out anyone regarded as an enemy, and a casualty list numbering in the tens of thousands. The original agents of the Inquisition—priests and monks, scribes and notaries, attorneys and accountants, torturers and executioners—were deputized by the Church and their worst excesses were excused as the pardonable sins of soldiers engaged in a holy war against heresy that became the obsession of Christendom. ebook in ebooks spiritual by Jonathan Kirsch
Kirsch offers up an amazing recounting of the abuses of clergy and state in those terrible times. Kirsch's powerful and cautionary account is essential reading for historians and anyone who wants to understand the potential dark side of religion. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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by Kathleen Kent
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The Salem Witch Trials: haunting portrayal in this bestselling eBook
A haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution. Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live...
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The Heretic's Daughter is the Salem Witch Trials coming from the perspective of a young girl whose mother is accused of being a witch. This is an extremely powerful and gripping story about Sarah, who is caught between mass hysteria and her mother's love. I'd never read anything by Kathleen Kent before this, but I was impressed by the vividness of her characters, the historical accuracy, and the poignant depiction of tragedy.
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by William Martin
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eBooks - Historical Fiction Thriller
One of our favorites...For anyone who enjoys American history, strong characterization, and a mystery plot that keeps you turning pages. An 400 yr old legend claims John Harvard's parents were brought together by none other than William Shakespeare, who gave them a gift of an original manuscript upon John's birth. Now, historian Peter Fallon sets out to find those priceless pages that were thought to have been lost in the Harvard Hall fire of 1764. Mixes fact and fiction, blending past and present - this riveting treasure hunt unveils the story of Harvard as it grows from a one-room schoolhouse to America's most famous university...eBook in eBooks history and thrillers
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by Ronald Suskind
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eBooks - Vivid History from Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind
Sweeping, propulsive. Investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of "The Armageddon Test" - a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world's nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons–grade uranium...eBook in eBooks History
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by Jane Mayer
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eBooks - History, Politics, and Iraq
A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the War on Terror. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long held agenda to enhance Presidential powers...
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"A powerful, brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling book....extraordinary and invaluable" Alan Brinkley, New York Times Book Review
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Tim Weiner For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of ashes."
Now Pulitzer Prize--winning author Tim Weiner offers t
"Tim Weiner has read widely and dug deeply to produce this marvelous and convincing history of the CIA across six decades. That every quote is also on the record is a testament to his skill and also, thankfully, to the transparency that endures in the American political system." Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars
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by Mark R. Levin
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Political eBooks - from conservative talk show radio hot and bestselling author Mark R. LevinIn a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by T.J. Stiles “At long last a biography worthy of the Commodore, meticulously researched, superbly written, and filled with original insights.”
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“T.J. Stiles writes with the magisterial sweep of a great historian and the keen psychological insight of a great biographer. The First Tycoon
"At long last a biography worthy of the Commodore, meticulously researched, superbly written, and filled with original insights." Maury Klein, author of The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
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by Bill Bryson
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Bill Bryson One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, h
"Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing." The New York Times
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by James Carville, Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
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Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic majority that will last not four but forty years. To unde
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Andrew Smith The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
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'Splendid!' Arthur C. Clarke, author 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Matthew Algeo From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. Diners, bellhops, and cabbies shouted out “Hiya, Harry!” whenever they recognized the former president, and, out for his daily constitutional on the streets of New York, Harry even stumbled into the sid
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"Matthew Algeo recalls [my grandparents'] memorable trip beautifully and with the sense of humor it deserves." Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of Harry S. Truman
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Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, this updated and expanded guide chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on each location. Packed with historical data, trivia, photographs, and baseball lore, entries include the birthplaces of baseball legends, ballpark
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"For the fan, this is the ultimate road trip . . . the perfect [guide] to lead you to all [the] great baseball stops." Joe Garagiola, announcer and former major league baseball player
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by R.A. Scotti On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happenedżLeonardo da Vinciżs Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, trie
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Mark Stein Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. His films include Housesitter, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has taught at American University and Catholic University.
'Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas.' Wall Street Journal
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Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the ""smartest and most devastating"" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was intended to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syri
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by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history.
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"Forceful and challenging ... A powerful, compelling and readable case against biblical literalism and fundamentalism." Times Higher Education, November 2008
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Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFK’s murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of files at the National Archives. The result of twenty years of research, it finally tells the full story long withheld from Congress and the American people.
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On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation's fifth-largest investment bank: "In my book, they are insolvent."
This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitable enterprise in the eighty-five years since its founding.
Ten days later, Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun.
"Cohan's portrayal of the firm's dominant partners--whose gargantuan appetites and mercurial habits provide the unifying force behind the book's operatic melodramas-- makes this an epic. . . . In fact, The Last Tycoons bears a striking resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon." New York Times Book Review
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An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer. Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements of economics, history, politics, and human stories, revealing that societies, economies, and countries usually make concrete choices that determine their destinies. He opens up larger questions about these choices, and why countries make them or are driven to make them, and what those decisions can mean for the future of our global economy
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With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Richard J. Evans There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlers rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worlds most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research a
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by Bart D. Ehrman
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Bart D. Ehrman For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand — — and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by Bryan Burrough In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pret
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On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.
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history ebooks and Audio Books - by James Webb In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day.
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" Born Fighting is a bombshell--or else the most brilliant battle flare ever launched by a book. James Webb reveals the all-but-invisible ethnic group that has created the core beliefs of democracy American-style: our rights come from God, not the Government; all of us are born equal, and "born aristocrats" don't exist; and tread on either of those two truths, and we'll fight you down to the last unbroken hyoid bone. The Scots-Irish, for such is their name, have fought all our wars for us, including Vietnam. James Webb was there, and he can count. He has written not only an engrossing story but also an important work of sociological history in the tradition of the great James Graham Leyburn." Tom Wolfe
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
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"David Grann's The Lost City of Z is a deeply satisfying revelation--a look into the life and times of one of the last great territorial explorers, P. H. Fawcett, and his search for a lost city in the Amazon. I mean, what could be better--obsession, mystery, deadly insects, shrunken heads, suppurating wounds, hostile tribesmen--all for us to savor in our homes, safely before the fire." Erik Larson, author of Thunderstruck, Devil in the White Cit,y and Isaac's Storm
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"The first of the President Obama books--and a good one--insightful, thorough, and straight." Ben Bradlee, Washington Post
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by Zhao Ziyang; Translator Bao Pu; Translator Renee Chiang
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For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossiliz
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A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own personal experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, touching lives as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to dange
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