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by Sergei Starikov
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
He was an authentic hero of World War I and the Russian Revolution. He commanded a successful Red Army that treated prisoners mercifully, refrained from pillaging the countryside, and educated the people about the objectives of the Bolshevik regime. His eloquent advocacy of the ideas and aspirations...
Godsong
A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A fresh, strikingly immediate and elegant verse translation of the classic, with an introduction and helpful guides to each section, by the rising American poet.
Born in the United States into a secularized Hindu family, Amit Majmudar puzzled over the many religious traditions on offer, and...
What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home?
A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Here is a book of workable, sensible solutions to the everyday problems faced by newly observant Jews as they try to explain the parameters of their new lives to the people who love them—but think they’ve gone around the bend.
For the formerly nonobservant Jew who has decided to live an...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism....
My Nuclear Family
A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first Century Military
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The unsentimental education of an idealistic, brilliant American naval officer.
It begins in 2001. Christopher Brownfield is a naïve young midshipman. His heroes at the time: Oliver North and John McCain.
In My Nuclear Family, Brownfield writes about how he loved the navy for its “rigidity...
Legends of the American Desert
Sojourns in the Greater Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey...
The Sea at Truro
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From the acclaimed poet of In the Salt Marsh comes a dazzling collection about the magic hiding in the ordinary days of our past and present. Willard turns a keen eye on the natural world that witnesses these revelations, and the myriad, often surprising ways in which it intersects with our own human...
Lord Churchill's Coup
The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated...
A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace...
by Richard Marius
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks to restore the man. More’s life spanned a tumultuous period in Western history. He was born in 1478...
by Sigurd F Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the...
by Haruki Murakami
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.
Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination....
by Lynne Cox
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English...
Native American Son
The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.
With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable...