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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER · Doubleday
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America today
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Samuel Etinde Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences - and similarities - are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates... |
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
Kirsten Fermaglich · NYU Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed... |
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The Search for El Dorado
John Hemming · E P Dutton; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The legend of El Dorado, and of a naked ruler who covered his body in gold dust, completely obsessed conquistadors and successive adventurers, who went in search of the sacred gold belonging to the Indians in Central and South America. Here is not only the story of the explorers' cruelty,... |
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Everything Worthy of Observation
Paul G. Schneider · State University of New York Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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In the pre-dawn of August 2, 1826, Alexander Stewart Scott stepped aboard the steamboat Chambly in Quebec City, Canada. He was beginning a journey that not only took him across New York State but also ultimately changed his view of America and her people. A keen observer, the twenty-one-year-old... |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Stephen Budiansky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam.... |
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Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition Reissued Edition
Horst W Janson · Pearson
Pages: 1184
Format: Hardcover
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NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyArtsLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyArtsLab, search 013412720X / 9780134127200 Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Reissued Eighth Edition, Combined... |
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When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
Paula Fredriksen · Yale University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating... |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven Joseph Ross · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill... |
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The Saudi Terror Machine: The Truth About Radical Islam and Saudi Arabia Revealed
Pierre Conesa · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The untouched political status of Saudi Arabia among the world's nations constitutes a strange black hole in the analysis of radicalism that affects Islam and the Middle East today. Why has Salafism, the most intolerant and sectarian movement of Islam, become so prevalent throughout... |
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The Ragged Edge: A US Marine's Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
Michael Zacchea · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military. Quickly, he realized he was faced... |
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In The Footsteps Of Abraham Ulrikab: The Events of 1880-1881
France Rivet · Polar Horizons
Pages: 343
Format: Print book
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The story of Abraham Ulrikab is one of the saddest and most moving stories in Nunatsiavut (Labrador) , Inuit and Canadian history. Hoping to improve his family's living conditions, in August 1880, Abraham agreed to head to Europe to become the latest "exotic" attraction... |
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