Non Fiction
PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE (MINI)
Written by Warren, Rick
Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America's largest and best-known churches, shows you how to lead a Purpose-Driven Life. This Miniature Edition (TM). will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you--both here and now, and for eternity.
HALF-EARTH: OUR PLANET'S FIGHT FOR LIFE
Written by Wilson, Edward O
In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet.
HOW TO BE A TUDOR: A DAWN-TO-DUSK GUIDE TO TUDOR LIFE
Written by Goodman, Ruth
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I.
UNQUIET MIND
Written by Jamison, Kay Redfield
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors.
AMONG THE THUGS
Written by Buford, Bill
With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence. Author reading tour.
NATIVE AMERICAN WARRIORS: 1500 CE - 1890 CE
Written by McNab, Chris
Working from entirely different traditions of combat and honor, the Native Americans' typical ambush and raiding tactics, based on indigenous hunting techniques, have often been misunderstood by European observers who used to a more direct style if warfare.
BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE
Written by Pinker, Steven
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeUpdated with a new afterword
REICHSTAG FIRE: THE CASE AGAINST THE NAZI CONSPIRACY
Written by Kellerhoff, Sven Felix
Who really caused the Reichstag fire on the evening of 27 February 1933? Were the Nazis really to blame? The debate has been going on for over eighty years as to who started the Reichstag fire and, in turn, became the catalyst of the Nazi dictatorship. The Reichstag Fire hopes to shed light on this enduring discussion.
VICTORIAN MASTER CRIMINAL: CHARLES PEACE AND THE MURDERS OF COCK AND DYSON
Written by Hanrahan, David C
On August 2, 1876, a young policeman named Constable Cock was shot dead while walking "the beat" in Manchester. A few months later, Arthur Dyson, an engineer, was murdered in his own backyard in Sheffield. Charles Peace was Victorian Britain's most infamous cat-burglar and murderer. He was a complex man: ruthless, devious, dangerous, charming, intelligent, and creative.
GREAT WALL IN 50 OBJECTS
Written by Lindesay, William
From the survey beforehand to the foundations, the core, and eventually the ruins, this book explores the majesty of the Wall through the objects it has inspired such as the appearance of the Wall in Ortelius' atlas of the world to the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', proliferation of the blunderbuss in the 15th century Great Wall theatre of war, and Kafka's classic short story "At the Building
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