America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)David GelernterAmerica-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video...

Norman LebrechtIn this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, tells the story of the rise of...

Laura HillenbrandSeabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler,...

Jay M Shapiro In early 1917, several attempts by Allied Forces to invade Turkish Palestine along the ancient Coastal route through Gaza ended in disaster. The British government, desperate for...

John Hopkins

Why has the War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes,tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and...

Beverley Birch and Christian Birmingham Who was Louis Pasteur? He revolutionized medicine and biology! An exciting tale of scientific exploration for kids!Parents, teachers, and gift givers will find:an exciting kids...

Hilary French A look at the profound implications of accelerating globalization for our planet's health, and a prescription for the action necessary to cope with this challenge. Our world is...

HG Koenigsberger and George L Mosse Europe in the 16th [Sixteenth] Century

Joseph J Ellis Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. A marvel...

Leo Spitzer In the 1930s, thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. But by late 1938, Bolivia was one of the few places in the entire...

William R Callahan 1941. Wartime Newfoundland.Keeping vigil on the easternmost point of North America, and providing a strategic haven to battle-ready U.S. troops during World War II, the island colony...