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**Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune

The fascinating untold tale of Samuel ...

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French a...

A CNN political analyst and a Republican strategist reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, _What’s...

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower

In his rich and nuanced portrait of the rema...

The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in ...

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research f...

The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East...

The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy t...

In 1957, Herbert L.Matthews of the New York Times, then considered one of the premiere foreign correspondents of his time, tr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along curr...

The Players: the best poker professionals in the world The Challenger: a wealthy banker from Dallas The Game: the richest poker...

The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal -- and forgotten -- massacres, when the Japanese army ...

**The bestseller that challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservat...

Praised as “the best military historian of our generation” by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World ...

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"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —_The New York Times Boo...

Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize n...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story ye...

A comprehensive, integral account of European life, society, politics, arts, science, philosophy, economics, manners, and moral...

A comprehensive, integral account of European life, society, politics, arts, science, philosophy, economics, manners, and moral...

The Story of Civilization, Volume III: A history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325. T...