History of the Americas

The true story of a friendship between two very different men: Founding Father Ben Franklin and famed preacher of the Great Awakening George Whitefield.

El respetado erudito William Bennett vuelve a poner al corriente aEstados Unidos con su herencia en el segundo volumen de América: La última esperanza.

People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.

The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.

What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common?

La última marea: historia, arqueología y antropología en Vueltabajo, de María del Carmen Barcia Zequeria, Jorge F.

Lo que describen los ensayos de este libro es una cultura obrera y popular que ha permitido la persistencia de una izquierda, en su sentido más amplio, en la Argentina.

When the Island had Fish is the story of a tiny island, Vinalhaven Maine, that offers a close look at the significant history of Maine fishing particularly, but also offers perspective on the impact of industrialized fishing on small fishing villages all over the United States and the world.

A biography of the often misunderstood, yet heroic, Confederate general who sacrificed everything for his native state of Virginia during the Civil War.

The Devils Playground is a timely account of what it is like to serve along perhaps the most dangerous and sensitive strip of land in the world.

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En febrero de 1975, el sudoeste de Tucumán fue ocupado por tropas del Ejército.

The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life.

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.

Republican foreign policy and the conservative leaders who shaped itHard Line traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it.

This book traces the origins of the "e;illegal alien"e; in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.

Bobby Kennedy's last campaignan homage to a leader who might have changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry.

The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roths Patrimony.

The important role of liberal ecumenical Protestantism in American historyThe role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation.

A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover 365 reasons to love America as you read the storied history of the United States.

The true story of a friendship between two very different men: Founding Father Ben Franklin and famed preacher of the Great Awakening George Whitefield.

Bestselling author Robert Morgan explores 100 Bible verses that powerfully impacted our leaders during defining moments in American history and reflects upon what these verses mean for us as a nation today.

A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach.

In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A.

An ideal gift for lovers of nature.

For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city.

In the tradition of the great regimental histories of the past, this book records the fire which seared the ranks of the Twenty-Four Michigan Regiment of the legendary ';Iron Brigade.

Updated and expanded for its twentieth anniversarythe beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West.

This is the story of James Capen Adams, a mountain man born in 1807 who brought grizzlies to the city of San Francisco, and then New York, for exhibition.

Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school.

En las Memorias de Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879-1937) se cuentan las aventuras que vivió en numerosos países, describiendo con deleite a sus amigos, relaciones, actividades y costumbres.

New perspectives on American political history from one of its leading writersIn recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance.

Harold Weisberg was foremost among the early trailblazers who saw the inadequacy of the Warren Reports solution to the crime of the century.

Ernst Bergen had good reason to say no when the President of his country asked him to join his cabinet.

What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

How the history of Texas illuminates America's post-Civil War pastTracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also America's.

Accepting his party's presidential nomination in the summer of 2008, Barack Obama beamed while Denver's stadium rocked with gauzy chants from adoring admirers.

There is no western outlaw more infamous and notorious than Jesse James.

El surgimiento de una de las más exitosas economías exportadoras del planeta en el que hasta el siglo XVIII había sido un rincón muy poco prometedor de un arcaico imperio colonial constituye sin duda el tema central de la historia de la Argentina moderna.

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.

"e;A brilliantly vibrant and compulsively readable one-volume life of one of the giants of the twentieth century.

Por la amplitud de su abordaje de la sociedad colonial, por la incisiva contextualización del escenario donde se libraron las batallas fundamentales de la Independencia, por la prodigalidad de situaciones y personalidades que expone, y por la minuciosa descripción de la compleja sociedad en la que comenzó a gestarse el Estado nacional es, y seguirá siendo, la investigación más completa a la que una y otra vez recurrirán quienes se interesen por develar el período más importante de la historia de la Nación Argentina, y reconocer la figura valerosa y bizarra de uno de sus más destacados héroes, el general Martín Miguel de Güemes.

¡Qué visión más trunca esa de pensar que Calama solo es yacimientos mineros y buenos puestos laborales!

Fue nuestra vocación que la heterogeneidad de los temas elegidos, las inclinaciones diferenciales de las argumentaciones y la pluralidad de espacios de análisis confluyeran en una discusión con las dicotomías –la más notoria, aquella donde Estado y sociedad civil son polos esencialmente antagónicos– hasta el momento prevalecientes en los estudios sociales del siglo veinte.

Este libro da cuenta de algunas transformaciones que sufre el rio Arzobispo en su recorrido por Bogota y en determinados momentos de su historia.

Tales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, unidentified flying objects, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more.