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Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

"Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post
Kirkus Review 
starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review

The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath

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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.

Dan Abrams and David Fisher take us inside the courtroom to witness the epic case that would define Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy. The former president had accused the leader of the Republican Party of corruption, setting off a trial that caught the attention
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I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel
I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel

2020 Selah Award Winner

Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who’d been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?

Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set out to rebuild their...

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel.

In his international...
Correspondents: A Novel
Correspondents: A Novel
“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”?Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

The world
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.

An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
“Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply
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Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life
Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life
I write this foreword during a pandemic of epic proportion, one not only wrought by nature but also helped along by those entrusted with her care. It may very well be that we are actualizing the Terminator’s prophecy when he matter-of-factly proclaimed, as if simply reading from the pages of history, that “it is in...
The Ancient Egyptians For Dummies History, Biography & Politics)
The Ancient Egyptians For Dummies History, Biography & Politics)
Unravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians. With a complete rundown of ancient Egyptian history and culture alongside insights in to the everyday lives of the Egyptians, you’ll discover how they kept themselves entertained, the...
The Secret History of Star Wars
The Secret History of Star Wars
Star Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the Western world. The tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker has become modern myth, an epic tragedy of the corruption of a young man in love into darkness, the rise of evil, and the power of good triumphing in the end. But it didn’t...
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.

“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland,
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The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
"Heslin's analysis convincingly shows that Statius skillfully employs the literary past to revisit familiar questions and to offer new insights. In the process, Heslin reveals a coherently intriguing and interesting Achilleid." - Charles McNelis, Georgetown University, Classical World

As we follow Achilles'
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