Biography: historical, political and military

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A timely biography on the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred yearsMulla Sadra (572 - 1640) is perhaps the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years.

A Navy Admiral's Bronze Rules uses case studies to explore the inherent risks of leadership and the tools available to those who nevertheless wish to shoulder those responsibilities.

My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.

"e;The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World.

Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike.

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

A “devastating” exposé of the United States’ Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews).

The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history.

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty.

John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England.

Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations.

Vladimir Putin has turned Russia from fledgling democracy into a police state, and in 2020 a constitutional change gave him the means to stay in power until 2036.

This book offers an illuminating story of how social and political change can sometimes result from the vision, leadership, and commitment of a few dedicated individuals determined not to fail.

It was Christmas Eve 1800.

This is the story of the rise and eventual disappearance of approximately thirty German weekly newspapers during a period of slightly more than eighty years.

Contributes to the debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript through case-studies of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians.

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied.

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, with a foreword by King Charles III, as Prince of Wales.

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From his first dramatic initiatives at the Battle of St.

« J'aimerais, si mes mots y parviennent, transmettre à quelques jeunes intrépides l'envie de descendre dans l'arène publique.

Surviving Hell is a harrowing account of Lieutenant Colonel William Miner, taken prisoner for 39 months after his unit surrendered to the Japanese on the island of Cebu, Philippines, during World War II.

When Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded Lord Cromer as Agent and Consul-General in Cairo in 1907, Britain effectively ruled Egypt and the Sudan.

The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.

Although Christianity has significantly influenced many of Western civilization's cherished ideals and values, it faces ongoing criticism regarding its truth, goodness, and beauty.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, few white, southern leaders would speak out in favor of racial equality for fear of being dismissed as too progressive.

Natural theology is the process of observing nature and engaging science and reason to provide evidence for God's existence by "e;reasoning to the best explanation.

A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our times.

The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats.

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, an acclaimed portrait of Leon Trotsky from one of the finest scholars of modern and Soviet era Russia.

In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war.

A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history.

The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge.

At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government's flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.

Federalismo y descentralización en la Nueva Granada.

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

Als die deutschen Truppen im Sommer 1942 die Siedlungsgebiete der Kosaken sowie die der verschiedenen kaukasischen Stämme erreichten, stellten sich diese Völker, aus ihrem glühenden Freiheitsdrang heraus, der deutschen Führung zum Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus zur Verfügung.

In Constantine XI: The Last Emperor of Byzantium, Pavlos Papadopoulos brings to life the gripping tale of the final days of one of history's greatest empires.

Hans Delbrück (1848–1929), a public conservative intellectual, lived during the time of the Weimar Republic.

More than 200 rare scientific manuscripts, books, maps, amulets, and magical texts have been brought together from renowned collections in Europe, Canada, Israel, Great Britain, and the United States specifically for this exhibition.

One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam's relationship with Western culture.