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"A definitive history of bird conservation in America.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred)From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land’s natural resources were infinite,...

Admiral McRaven's name has become synonymous with indelible advice for changing your life through hard work and strong character. Now, for the first time, comes an inspiring collection of speeches...

On the unexpected pleasures and provocations of bad poetry The only Russian Count of Sardinia, Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757-1835) didn't achieve fame in his lifetime--he achieved infamy...

Throughout history parties have faltered and new groups have emerged, but rarely has this process been so accelerated, so widespread, and so conducive to dramatic political change as in our present...

As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based...

History of Portugal encompasses the stretch from her earliest times to her first empire in South America, and to her decline in the early nineteenth century, before the rise of her third empire in...

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This celebrated study, first published in 1951, offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), best known for his History of the Rebellion and...

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge. Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter...

Explores the role of race and consumer culture in attracting urban congregants to an evangelical church The Urban Church Imagined illuminates the dynamics surrounding white urban evangelical...

Embark on an epic voyage of discovery, in one thousand puzzle pieces! In this fabulous puzzle, collage artist Maria Rivans celebrates Darwin's journey with a glorious selection of its sights - from...