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Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.--
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines trials throughout history that don't simply end with their verdict. Many have shaped and transformed the very social, political, and legal traditions we take for granted today. It's trials like these that are deserving of the description "great."
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book is designed to provide readers with the background and building blocks they need in order to answer for themselves the critical questions about what is taking place around the world and why. It explains what makes each region of the world tick, the many challenges globalization presents, and the most influential countries, events, and ideas. Its aim is to help readers become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound,...
93) 1900-1919
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A look at the events that helped shaped modern history as seen in photographs from the first two decades of the 20th century.
98) 1980s
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Examines the top news stories of the 1980s, including war in Iran and Iraq, AIDS, and the opening of the Berlin Wall.
Author
Language
English
Description
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." Historian Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and...