Posts Tagged ‘history’
Awenda Voice & Spirit
The Unconquered
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering…
Read MoreThe Ancestor’s Tale
A newly revised and expanded edition of the classic account of evolution.”
Read MoreCromwell
A recreation of the life and complex character of Oliver Cromwell. Antonia Fraser seeks to free Cromwell from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. Of Cromwell’s fitness for high office, both military and civil, this text leaves no doubt.
Read MoreThe Undoing Project
How a Nobel Prize winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.”
Read MoreA Night To Remember
Recounts the demise of the “unsinkable” Titanic, the massive luxury liner that housed extravagances such as a French “sidewalk cafe” and a grand staircase, but failed to provide enough lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board.
Read MoreDouble Cross
The Forsaken
Traces the lesser-known tale of a group of depression-era Americans who emigrated to Stalinist Russia in search of better opportunities, documenting how they and countless other Americans were arrested, incarcerated within labor camps, or executed over the course of a few years. Reprint.
Read MoreThe Art of War
An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack, and accurate intelligence
Read MoreLost in Shangri-la
On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to…
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