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The Habsburgs

Martyn Rady

• Paperback | Engels
• "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling" ( Wall Street Journal )--the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for ce... Lees meer

Augustine

Robin Lane Fox

• Hardcover | Engels
• "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for... Lees meer

The Unsettling of Europe

Peter Gatrell

• Hardcover | Engels
• An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time... Lees meer

The Rapture Exposed

Barbara R Rossing

• Paperback | Engels
• The idea of The Rapture -- the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth -- is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible'... Lees meer

Bad Faith

Paul A Offit

• Hardcover | Engels
• In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish countr... Lees meer

A Thousand Brains

Jeff Hawkins

• E-book | Engels
• A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain an... Lees meer

Bookmark Now

• Paperback | Engels
• An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature... Lees meer

Fire in the Sky

Eric M Bergerud

• Paperback | Engels
• In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless ... Lees meer

The Cunning of Unreason

John Dunn

• Paperback | Engels
• All human action lies under the shadow of prospective regret, but there are few areas of contemporary life over which that shadow falls so darkly as i... Lees meer

Studies on Hysteria

Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud

• Paperback | Engels | Basic Books Classics
• The cornerstone of psychoanalysis-and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration-featuring the classic case of Anna O. and the evolution of the... Lees meer

The Fighting First

Flint Whitlock

• Paperback | Engels
• The Fighting First recounts the untold story of the 1st Infantry Division's role in the invasion of France at Normandy. Using primary sources, officia... Lees meer

Comeback Cities

Paul Grogan, Tony Proscio

• Paperback | Engels
• Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, r... Lees meer

We Have to Talk

Samuel Shem, Janet Surrey, Stephen Bergman

• Paperback | Engels
• "We have to talk." For many men, these are the four worst words in the English language, especially when they're uttered by a female partner. But it d... Lees meer

Wild Nights

Benjamin Reiss

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating i... Lees meer

Ripples on a Cosmic Sea

David Blair, Geoff McNamara

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Science
• Most people live and work entirely oblivious to the fact that a myriad of ghostly ripples are passing through them all the time. Generated in the dept... Lees meer

Battle

John A Lynn

• Paperback | Engels
• A noted military historian offers a cultural approach to the history of warfare, insisting that we understand combat best when we study the beliefs, v... Lees meer

The New Golden Rule

Amitai Etzioni

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the world's leading sociologists and most quoted intellectuals in America today, Amitai Etzioni has been the subject of numerous profiles in al... Lees meer

The Zero-Sum Society

Lester C Thurow

• Paperback | Engels
• Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zero-Sum Society discusses the human implications of economic problem solving. Inter... Lees meer

Lives of the Planets

Richard Corfield

• Paperback | Engels
• Lives of the Planets is a sweeping tour of our solar system, from the sun and demoted Pluto, to the Kuiper Belt and beyond the edge of the interstella... Lees meer

Not Even Wrong

Peter Woit

• Paperback | Engels
• When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn't just going in the ... Lees meer

Saving the Jews

Robert N Rosen

• Paperback | Engels
• Saving the Jews is a rigorously researched narrative and interpretive history of how FDR and his administration dealt with the Nazi persecution of the... Lees meer

Ending Affirmative Action

Terry Eastland

• Paperback | Engels
• In the 1960s, we resolved as a nation never to judge people by the color of their skin. But today, race-based public policy has once again become the ... Lees meer

Ronald Reagan

Peter Wallison

• Paperback | Engels
• An icon of the twentieth century, Ronald Reagan has earned a place among the most popular and successful U.S. presidents. In this compelling firsthand... Lees meer

Seize the Daylight

David Prerau

• Paperback | Engels
• Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow ... Lees meer