The first symptoms begin after just a few nights without sleep, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. Several weeks on, the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in and out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail. Finally, after months of agonising...

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William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in...

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1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface...

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“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.”–Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An...

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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening...

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-A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.- --The Millions -A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.- --Washington Post -A thrilling journey of ideas.- --Boston Globe From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration...

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Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day--Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren...

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Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel? You go up, up, up and can see for miles! But when the inventor of the Ferris wheel, George Ferris, first pitched the idea, everyone thought he was crazy. A 250-foot bicycle wheel that goes around and around and carries...

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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but...

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El 4 de mayo de 2001 el padre de Antonio Altarriba se suicidó. De esa manera ponía fin a una vida marcada por el fracaso y la frustración. Al igual que otros muchos hombre y mujeres del pasado siglo intentó construir un mundo más justo y...

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More than any other, one song traces America’s history of patriotism and protest. Everyone knows the words to “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” What most don’t realize is that this iconic song has been a beacon of change for hundreds of years. Generations of protesters and civil rights pioneers have...

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Strongheart may have been a movie star, but he wasn't always famous. He started out as a police dog who could sniff out criminals and march like a soldier, but he didn't know how to have...

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There are about ten quintillion insects in the world-and some of them have affected human history in tremendous ways! For as long as humans have been on earth, we've co-existed with insects . . . for...

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The first book on the important but overlooked French invasion of England in 1216, which was almost a second Norman Conquest History came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself, 150 years after the Norman Conquest. In 1216, taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by...

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نبذة النيل والفرات:اعتاد الناس أن يسموا تأريخ العرب قبل الإسلام (التأريخ الجاهلي)، أو (تأريخ الجاهلية)، وأن يذهبوا إلى أن العرب كانت تقلب عليهم البداوة، وأنهم كانوا قد تحلفوا عمن حولهم في الحضارة، فعاش أكثرهم عيشة قبائل رحل، في جهلة وغفلة، لم تكن لهم صلات بالعالم...

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Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each....

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Focusing on a formative age in English history, this book covers the long reigns of Henry III--whose authority was challenged by Simon de Montfort bringing England to civil war in 1264--and Henry's...

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Written in 1961 and now back in print, this classic and fascinating true crime story stars none other than Marie Antoinette. Four years before the French Revolution, some priceless diamonds were purchased in elaborate secrecy from a court jeweler. The jewels, not...

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Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her...

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نبذة النيل والفرات:إن كتاب "سيف الله خالد بن الوليد" من تأليف ضابط باكستاني برتبة لواء، مسؤول عن تدريس مادة التاريخ العسكري في كلية القيادة والأركان الباكستانية. وهو يبحث بالتفصيل وبأسلوب عسكري جيد في الحياة والتربية العسكرية لدى العرب في فترة ما قبل الإسلام وما بعده وحياة خالد بن الوليد...

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وقعت آلاف الحروب، قصيرة ومديدة، عرفنا تفاصيل بعضها وغابت تفاصيل أخرى بين جثث الضحايا. كثيرون كتبوا، لكن دوماً كتب الرجال عن الرجال. كلُّ ما عرفناه عن الحرب، عرفناه من خلال "صوت الرجل". فنحن جميعاً أسرى تصو��ُرات "الرجال" وأحاسيسهم عن الحرب، أسرى كلمات...

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Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports promising that genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they harm us, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making...

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In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears...

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كتاب "يوميات هيروشيما" يبدأ بدراسة للدكتور رءوف توضح التطور التاريخى الذى وصل إلى أن قصفت مدينتى هيروشيما وناجازاكى بالقنابل الذرية فى نهاية الحرب العالمية الثانية يتبعها بترجمته لليوميات الشهيرة للطبيب...

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Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately describe things you cannot see or even imagine. Einstein's Heroes takes you on a journey of discovery about just such a miraculous language--the language of mathematics--one of humanity's most...

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In 1941, before America entered World War II, determined young LeRoy Gover signed on with Britain’s Royal Air Force to fly the plane of his dreams, the fast, sleek Spitfire. When America joined...

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Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize "In both form and content, Yaqui Deer songs is one of the most beautiful anthropological books of recent years. It stands as part of the great tradition of collaborative work flowing from...

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"Massive buildings were crushed like egg shells, great timbers were carried through the air as though they were of no weight, and the winds and the waves swept everything before them...

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The hurricane that swept Galveston Island early in September, 1900, occupies a unique place in the reckoning of events of the Texas Gulf coast. Nearly a century after its passing, the storm remains the standard against which the ferocity and destructiveness of all others are measured. Twothirds of...

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يكشف هذا النص كيف عاش نورثوب في ظروف العبودية القاسية، وكابد المرض والجَلْد وتعرّض لمحاولة شنق. ويصف الحياة اليومية للعبيد في لويزيانا، ونظامهم الغذائي، وظروف حياتهم، والعلاقة بين السيّد والعبد، وكيف كان مطاردو...

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From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history--the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America.""""For...

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John C. Bogle shares his extensive insights on investing in mutual fundsSince the first edition of "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this...

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In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence (1880 to 1940) and discovers that many groups contributed...

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On the eve of the Civil War, Galveston was a jewel of the Gulf Coast--a booming city with a fine natural harbor and all the commerce, culture and improvements that attended it. Galveston was also home...

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This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily...

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century A.D., China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this...

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Michael Lynch presents an engaging and thorough account of Mao's life and politics, making use of a wealth of primary and secondary sources. He locates Maoism in the broader context of twentieth century Chinese history, discussing the development of the Chinese Communist Party, the creation of...

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"Als im Jahre 1911 in China das Kaisertum abgeschafft und die Republikausgerufen wurde, hörte eine Institution auf zu existieren, die zweitausendJahre hindurch dem ""Reich der Mitte"" das Gepräge verliehen hatte. Dielange und wechselvolle...

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In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most...

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The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history.The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn't...

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In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in Europe: 'Hitler watched German siege of Warsaw. City in flames.' And, she continued, 'Had my wedding dress fitted. Lovely.'For...

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بما أن الكتاب بقلم عسكري فهو لا يتطرق إلى الجوانب الفلسفيه أو حتى السياسية فالكتاب يركز بشكل أساسي على الجوانب العسكرية التفصلية سواء للإستعدادات العسكرية والخط والتجهيزات مع ربطها بالأفراد والإسهاب في تفصيل المعرك وأسباب الهزيمه.الكاتب كشف حقائق مثيره فيما يختص بضعف الإستعدادت على الجبه السورية...

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The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there is no modern history of...

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From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream-and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every defining aspect...

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In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8...

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Quando in un quartiere periferico di Cracovia viene creato d’autorità il ghetto ebraico, il 3 marzo 1941, Tadeusz Pankiewicz ne diventa suo malgrado un abitante. Pur senza essere ebreo, infatti, gestisce l’unica farmacia del quartiere: contro ogni previsione e contro ogni logica di...

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A vast "army" of over 7,000 terracotta statues of soldiers surrounds the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in the Shaanxi province in northwestern China. These vigilant soldiers have been on duty for 2,000 years, but does anyone know what sort of ruler Qin Shi Huang was?...

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