Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

Zecharia Sitchin The groundbreaking, bestselling series—millions of copies sold worldwide! A classic of ancient human history—and one of the inspirations behind the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens —Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles...

Ralph Melnick As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know...

Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil The marvelous saga of the English language--from its origins as a dialect of a small European tribe to its present status as the...

Simon Schama It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of...

Neal Karlen A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together. Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages,...

Abram Goldberg One of the most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective.The day Abram and...

Ayesha Jalal Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset...

Terrence Des PresAn eloquent revelation that touches the foundations of what man is. Neither despairing nor conventionally hopeful, The Survivor describes the most terrible events in human memory. But what...

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West has remained secret until the publication of his...

Seymour M HershThe Soviet destruction in 9/1983 of 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was one of the most upsetting crises of the Cold War era. The USA...

Melissa Fay GreeneOn October 12, 1958, the Reform Jewish synagogue in Atlanta exploded when 50 sticks of dynamite detonated: a key moment in Civil Rights history. This volume looks back...