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Finding yourself can change the way you see the worldEvery family has its secrets - and its lies. The Lamberts have Uncle Harry, who fought in World War I but...

An entirely new kind of biography, Oscar s Books explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. It argues that reading exercised a formative influence on Wilde s character...

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer...

Jesus said that those who believe would lay hands on the sick and see them recover (Mark 16:17-18). Healing ministry is for every believer.From the filmmakers of the breakthrough documentary...

The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to...

Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after...

This book tells the story of Florence Hardin g''s rise to power. The daughter of an abusive father, mother at a young age to an illegitimate child, she saw her...

Here in one encyclopedic volume are all the facts, figures and details of a theater of war that covered a third of the Earth's surface. Includes biographical sketches of all...

Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In "America's First Dynasty," Brookhiser tells the story...

From the distinguished historian of Revolutionary-era America and author of the acclaimed American Scripture comes this fresh and surprising account of a pivotal moment in American history--the ratification of the...

LINCOLN'S MEN offers a fascinating account of the emotional bonds forged between the average Union soldier and 'Father Abraham' Lincoln. William C. Davis bases his study on the correspondence and...

Technology is revolutionizing business practice. As a result, tens of thousands of executives are finding their industries on the verge of earthshaking changes. Now, drawing on four decades of consulting...

A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions , Carpenter's Gothic , and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American...

Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions is an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture...

A Confederate general who ranks with Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson but whose achievements have been unfairly neglected until now, finally receives his due in this invaluable biography by...

A groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" ( The New York Times Book Review ) A "monumental study"...

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of...

From the Nobel Prize winner-one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century- a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face...

The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair . An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge...

The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.

Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay,...

The 19th century was the golden age of private life, a time when supreme individual and existential values emerged. The fourth book in this popular series, written for the cultivated...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West,...

More than half a century after the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: are women human yet? If...

When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she...

In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For...

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson...

A noted pshychologist explores the paradoxes of masculinity. This book examines men's hopes and fears, dreams and reality, love lives and work lives, as Ross unfolds a new theory of...

The author describes his career with the Navy's first anti-terrorist unit.

WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington -- starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess -- has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against...

Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's acciendental death. She was always the headstrong one, the...

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the...