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Title: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Author: Peter L. Bernstein

Published: 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 9780471295631
Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 400
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Nonfiction

A Business Week , New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller
"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism."
- The New York Times
"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book."
- The Wall Street Journal
"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it."
- Business Week
"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read."
- The Economist
"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world."
- Worth
"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement."
- Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers
"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it."
- John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University
In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.
"An extremely readable history of risk."
- Barron's
"Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face."
- Money
"A singular achievement."
- Times Literary Supplement
"There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company."
- The Australian

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Title: After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in .,
Author: Lesley Hazleton

Published: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9780385523936
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages: 304
Extension: EPUB
Size: 395 KB
Subjects: General, History, Religion, Biography & Autobiography, Rituals & Practice, History - General History, Religious, .,, Middle East, Religion - World Religions, Medieval, ., - History, ---c History, Shīʻah, Aishah, Relations, ., - Sunni, Sunnites, Caliphate, Sh†iøah, Caliphate - History, ., - Shi'a, Muhammad - Death and burial, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Sunni, Sunnites - Relations - Shiah, Shiah - Relations - Sunnites, Shi'a, Shiah, ---c Theology, ., - Rituals & Practice
Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of .,, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new ---c nation had begun, sparking a succession crisis marked by power grabs, assassination, political intrigue, and passionate faith. Soon ., was embroiled in civil war, pitting its founder's controversial wife Aisha against his son-in-law Ali and shattering Muhammad's ideal of unity. Combining meticulous research with compelling storytelling, After the Prophet explores the volatile intersection of religion and politics, psychology and culture, and history and current events. It is an indispensable guide to the depth and power of the Shia-Sunni split.

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Title: A world lit only by fire: the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age
Author: William Manchester

Published: 1992
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316082792
Publisher: Little, Brown
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: History
Categories: Education, History, Educational Theory, Research & History, World History, European History, Education - History, Civilization - History, Medieval History, General & Miscellaneous European History, Education - Europe - History, Europe - Civilization, General & Miscellaneous Medieval History, Medieval History - Social Aspects, Renaissance - History

A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains.

"Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

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Title: American History Revised
Author: Seymour Morris, Jr.

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307587602
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 8 MB
Subjects: History, Reference, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Reference, Nonfiction

" American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it."-James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory

This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds of startling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known people and events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story.

We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Living abroad for twelve years gave author Seymour Morris Jr. the opportunity to view his country as an outsider and compelled him to examine American history from a fresh perspective. As Morris colorfully illustrates through the 200 historical vignettes that make up this book, much of our nation's past is quite different-and far more remarkable-than we thought.

We discover that:

• In the 1950s Ford was approached by two Japanese companies begging for a joint venture. Ford declined their offers, calling them makers of "tin cars." The two companies were Toyota and Nissan.
• Eleanor Roosevelt and most women's groups opposed the Equal Rights Amendment forbidding gender discrimination.
• The two generals who ended the Civil War weren't Grant and Lee.
• The #1 bestselling American book of all time was written in one day.
• The Dutch made a bad investment buying Manhattan for $24.
• Two young girls aimed someday to become First Lady-and succeeded.
• Three times, a private financier saved the United States from bankruptcy.

Organized into ten thematic chapters, American History Revised plumbs American history's numerous inconsistencies, twists, and turns to make it come alive again.

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Title: An Edible History of Humanity
Author: Tom Standage

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400113088
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 288
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, History, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, History, Nonfiction

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes-caused, enabled, or influenced by food-has helped to shape and transform societies around the world. The first civilizations were built on barley and wheat in the Near East, millet and rice in Asia, and corn and potatoes in the Americas. Why farming created a strictly ordered social hierarchy in contrast to the loose egalitarianism of hunter-gatherers is, as Tom Standage reveals, as interesting as the details of the complex cultures that emerged, eventually interconnected by commerce. Trade in exotic spices in particular spawned the age of exploration and the colonization of the New World. Food's influence over the course of history has been just as prevalent in modern times. In the late eighteenth century, Britain's solution to food shortages was to industrialize and import food rather than grow it. Food helped to determine the outcome of wars: Napoleon's rise and fall was intimately connected with his ability to feed his vast armies. In the twentieth century, Communist leaders employed food as an ideological weapon, resulting in the death by starvation of millions in the Soviet Union and China. And today the foods we choose in the supermarket connect us to global debates about trade, development, the environment, and the adoption of new technologies. Encompassing many fields, from genetics and archaeology to anthropology and economics-and invoking food as a special form of technology-An Edible History of Humanity is a fully satisfying discourse on the sweep of human history.

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Title: After Life
Author: John Edward

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781402775574
Publisher: Sterling
Pages: 174
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: New Age, Nonfiction
Categories: New Age, Nonfiction

What happens after we die?
The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what he's learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that it's never too late to forgive...and never too far away to love.
John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.


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Title: Aftershock
Author: Robert B. Reich

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781449839116
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 192
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Nonfiction

The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top-and where a grasping middle class simply does not have the resources to remain viable.

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Title: Above Life's Turmoil
Author: James Allen

Published: 2016
ISBN: 9788835329008
Publisher: ManyBooks.net
Extension: EPUB
Size: 77 KB
Subjects: New Age, Nonfiction
Categories: New Age, Nonfiction

From the author of As A Man Thinketh. One cannot read James Allen without coming away changed. Let this book show you how to confront the truth of who you are and how you came to be who you are. From there you will be free to become who you wish to be. "A man must be true to himself, fearless with himself, before he can perceive the Pure Principles of Truth" - James Allen

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Title: American Fascists The Christian Right & The War on America
Author: Chris Hedges

Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400104574
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Pages: 274
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, veteran journalist Chris Hedges challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society. Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian colleges. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America. American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and week-long classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations, and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and that were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use physical violence to suppress opposition-in short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are-the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning: We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.

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Title: An Area of Darkness
Author: V.S. Naipaul

Published: 1992
Language: English
ISBN: 9780330522830
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Travel, Nonfiction

The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.
An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . .
The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone.
'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' - The Times


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Title: An exact replica of a figment of my imagination: a memoir
Author: Elizabeth McCracken

Published: 2008
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316027670
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
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Size: 151 KB
Subjects: Novelists; American - 21st century, 20th century, Novelists; American, 21st century, General, Literary, Family & Relationships, Personal Memoirs, Death; Grief; Bereavement, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Novelists; American - 20th century, McCracken; Elizabeth, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Medical, Biography, Women
Categories: Awards, Biography, Literary Biography, Medical Figures & Patient Narratives, Women's Biography, American Literary Biography, Patient Narratives, Trauma & Recovery Patients - Biography, Women's Biography - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Authors - Literary Biography, Novelists, American->20th century->Biography, Barnes&Noble.com Favorite Life Stories of 2008, New York Magazine's Top Ten Books of 2008, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2008, Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction of 2008, San Francisco Chronicle's Best Nonfiction of 2008, USA Today's Favorite Books of 2008

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child.

This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't -- but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on.

With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.

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Title: To End All Wars
Author: Adam Hochschild

Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Size: 4 MB

A sweeping history of World War I, showcasing the war's critics as dramatically as its heroes and victims.

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Title: Adventures of a Sea Hunter
Author: James P. Delgado

Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781926685601
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: HIS000000
Categories: History, Transportation, World History, Ships & Shipbuilding, Exploration & Discovery, Shipwrecks & Underwater Exploration

Adventure diving stories and shipwreck history, by diver and maritime archaeologist James Delgado - the first prof. archaeologist to explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic. * Delgado is the co-host with Clive Cussler, of the National Geographic International television series The Sea Hunter

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Title: American Childhood
Author: Annie Dillard

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780060915186
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 272
Extension: EPUB
Size: 635 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction

" An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood. " - Chicago Tribune
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s.
Dedicated to her parents-from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions-Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.

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Title: The Publisher
Author: Alan Brinkley

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307592910
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 560
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Awards, History, Biography, Social Sciences, Business, United States History, Literary Biography, Historical Biography, News & Media Biography, Media & Communications, Business Biography, Industries, 20th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - United States, Journalism, Consumer Industries, 20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous, Editors, Publishers, Agents, & Booksellers - Literary Biography, Historical Biography - United States - 20th Century, Journalists - News & Media Biography, Publishers & Booksellers - Biography, Publishers - News & Media Biography, Publishing Industries - General & Miscellaneous, Publishers and publishing->United States->Biography, 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalists, 2011-2020->Biography/Autobiography->Pulitzer Prize Finalists, Kirkus Reviews Best Biographies of 2010, Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2010, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2010, New Yorker's Favorite Nonfiction of 2010
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Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.

As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of Time: a "news-magazine" that would condense the week's events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after Time's unexpected success-and Hadden's early death-Luce published the first issue of Life, to which millions soon subscribed.

Brinkley shows how Luce reinvented the magazine industry in just a decade. The appeal of Life seemingly cut across the lines of race, class, and gender. Luce himself wielded influence hitherto unknown among journalists. By the early 1940s, he had come to see his magazines as vehicles to advocate for America's involvement in the escalating international crisis, in the process popularizing the phrase "World War II." In spite of Luce's great success, happiness eluded him. His second marriage-to the glamorous playwright, politician, and diplomat Clare Boothe-was a shambles. Luce spent his later years in isolation, consumed at times with conspiracy theories and peculiar vendettas.

The Publisher tells a great American story of spectacular achievement-yet it never loses sight of the public and private costs at which that achievement came.

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Title: The Super Summary of World History
Author: Alan Dale Daniel

Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781450062510
Publisher: Xlibris
Pages: 546
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: History, World History, General & Miscellaneous World History, World History - General & Miscellaneous
Categories: History, World History, General & Miscellaneous World History, World History - General & Miscellaneous

The Super Summary of World History Revised is a new and very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes as of 2010. Mr. Daniel has completely reviewed and rewritten major sections of his original work, The Super Summary of World History, and published his updated work as the Super Summary of World History Revised. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This new history raises exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives to stimulate real thinking about history rather than accepting that the past as set in stone. History isnt just names and dates, but a range of decisions and actions that often turn on the smallest circumstance. The Super Summary analyzes a few events in depth but most are put into their historical framework so the reader discern where and how all of this action escorts us to the present day. If history seems dull, pick up The Super Summary to discover that Western History is alive with controversy and consequence. The book has 612 pages, over 83 Figures most of which are maps - a detailed Table of Contents, a time line of essential events, a list of important on-line sources, an extensive index, and 391 footnotes. At the end of key chapters is a list of reading and on-line sources to help the reader expand their knowledge of history Plus a new "Let Us Learn" section detailing what history can teach us. Throughout the text, critical names are in bold, and extremely important events are in bold and italic print.

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Title: Afghanistan
Author: Thomas Barfield

Published: 2022
Language: English
ISBN: 9780691248059
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 456
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: History, Middle Eastern History, Middle Eastern History - Modern - General & Miscellaneous
Categories: History, Middle Eastern History, Middle Eastern History - Modern - General & Miscellaneous

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily.

Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and why the United States failed to avoid the same fate.

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Title: The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Author: Alison Weir

ISBN: 9780345453211
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: General, Historical, Royalty, England, Great Britain, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Biography And Autobiography, History, Europe, Historical - British, Queen; consort of Henry VIII; King of England;, Anne Boleyn;, 1507-1536, Henry VIII; 1509-1547, Queens, Great Britain - History

SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days.The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Anne's ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. There remains, however, much mystery surrounding the queen's arrest and the events leading up to it: Were charges against her fabricated because she stood in the way of Henry VIII making a third marriage and siring an heir, or was she the victim of a more complex plot fueled by court politics and deadly rivalry? The Lady in the Tower examines in engrossing detail the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen's fate. Weir unravels the tragic tale of Anne's fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the horrors of her incarceration and that final, dramatic scene on the scaffold. What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her, and who was tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself. Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt-or innocence. Only in Alison Weir's capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.

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Title: A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
Author: Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova

Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-40709-201-0
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Pages: 416
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: History
Categories: History, Biography, Social Sciences, Russian & Soviet History, European History, Asian History, Military History, News & Media Biography, Media & Communications, Historical Biography, Military Biography, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - History, World War II, Armed Forces History, Journalism, War Narratives, 1939-1945 (Great Patriotic War) - History, European Theater - World War II - Soviet Union & Eastern Front, Russia & Former Soviet Union - Armed Forces, War Correspondents - News & Media Biography, World War II - Personal Narratives, World War II Narratives, World War II - War Narratives, World War, 1939-1945->Personal narratives, Soviet

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more. Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions --at once unflinching and sensitive -- we have ever had of what Grossman called "the ruthless truth of war."

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Title: All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Translated from the Original Greek, by Elizabeth Carter.
Author: Epictetus

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781171001867
Publisher: BiblioLife
Pages: 326
Extension: EPUB
Size: 383 KB
Subjects: Philosophy, History, Religion

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT138718London: printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1768. 2v.; 12

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