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As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise.

A fresh look at the impact of Quentin Skinner''s The Foundations of Modern Political Thought.

A compelling, inspiring and moving collection of Barbara Holborow's stories of hope, loss and apathy from behind the Bench as Children's Magistrate.

Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960s, are now largely a historical memory.

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer.

Adolf Hitler was hardly the modern world's only murderous tyrant and imperialist.

This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer who was the first third baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in Americas history.

Tired of inauthentic prattle, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America Penny Young Nance is ready to change the way women today engage the culture.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

This biography of the late Rev.

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.

A guide to the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors.

A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the YearAn exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

For more than seven decades Nick Lucas was an entertainer, beginning as a child street musician and becoming one of the most popular singer-guitarists of all time.

WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018 & THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER (April 2018) ___________'This book can save lives.

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The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories.

Tibetan Buddhism derives from the confluence of Buddhism and yoga which started to arrive in Tibet from India briefly around the late eighth century and then more steadily from the thirteenth century onwards.

In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

How do you get from the poverty of London's East End to the glitz and glamour of the Oscars?

Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name.

The harp is both the oldest and the newest of instruments.

Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the travel industry.

On 6 February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runaway in Munich.

'Women' consisting half of the human population have been treated as weaker sex in all societies of the world.

The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947.

Although Andrew "e;Rube"e; Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season.

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him.

Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous.

In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East-Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda.

A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.

Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the social-realist melodrama The Man with the Golden Arm, the CinemaScope musical Carmen Jones, and the riveting courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder.

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus.

Between the years of 1898 and 1926, Edward Westermarck spent a total of seven years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes in different parts of the country, meeting local people and learning about their language and culture; his findings are noted in this two-volume set, first published in 1926.

Wedged between the hustle of New York and the grandeur of Washington, D.

This "e;elegant and engaging"e; biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "e;a masterpiece"e; (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).

My father's greatest living heroes were John Glenn and Jim Whittakera physical giant with a huge heart, a decent soul, and inspirational courage.

In the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, during the government of Louis St Laurent and Lester Pearson, Escott Reid played a central role.