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With new commentary and Insights on the life and times of Jesse Livermore

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fiction...

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A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth...

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of ...

Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books co...

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Rousseau and Revolution: A history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe fr...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak bord...

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term c...

Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal...

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.

This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the ...

The Number 1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of _...

Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
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From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successfu...

Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfillment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely sal...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we ...