Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors.
A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country.
This is a penetrating and detailed account of the climactic battles of the German forces in Slovakia, the Carpathians, parts of Poland, Silesia and Saxony, from autumn 1944 until the end of the war.
I wrote this book in order to present to the newborn believers and also people that are looking for God for help and to know him the importance of knowing the enemies, spirits invisible being in our life as well as the importance of the deliverance in the healing of human body, soul, will, and mind.
Hull Rifles looks at the 4th East Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War and examines the origins of the battalion and its history over the three years it fought in France and Belgium.
This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule.
A fascinating journal written after the creation of Derek Jarman s The Last of England, covering the making of the film itself and the origins of its deeply autobiographical content.
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another in Rwanda.
"e;A mine of information"e; on the surprising technological advances made in the Middle Ages, from the authors of Life in a Medieval City (Kirkus Reviews).
Finalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsOn November 4, 1791, a coalition of warriors determined to set the Ohio River as a permanent boundary between tribal lands and white settlements faced an army led by Arthur St.
"e;Provocative and invariably entertaining"e; a #1 New York Times bestselling author "e;gives dishing the dirt its historical, social and political due"e; (Publishers Weekly).
In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.