Susan Schmidt and Michael WeisskopfWhat drove the man who nearly toppled a presidency and forced the most serious constitutional crisis in twenty-five years? Conventional wisdom portrays Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...

Peter Ackroyd Rich in detail and atmosphere, and told in vivid prose, Tudors, the second vollume in Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-volume history of England, recounts the transformation of England from a...

RJ UnsteadLooking at History: Tudors and Stuarts Bk.3 - R.J. Unstead - Paperback - B28-S2 96 pages, Paperback First published March 21, 1974

Erik J Zurcher This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins...

Judy Donnelly Describes the burial of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen and the discovery of his long-lost tomb by archaeologists more than 3000 years later. May 12, 1988 by Random House Books...

Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt Penguin

Vikram Seth   Two Lives is the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial divide. It tells of the extraordinary lives of Vikram Seth's great-uncle...

Haya Lean MolnarEva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city...

Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of...

Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of...

Bat Ye'or UNDERSTANDING DHIMMITUDE brings together for the first time twenty-one talks and lectures in which Bat Ye'or explains in layman's terms the essential concepts from her studies, the fruit...

Randall PriceWhy does strife continue in the Middle East? How is it connected to terrorist attacks on Western nations? Dr. Price provides a concise, fascinating look at the problems and...