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  • The American Freedoms Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the Most Celebrated Declarations of American Liberty

    by Les Adams ...
    The American Freedoms Primer is a compilation of the most historically significant speeches and writings on liberty, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Many of the declarations contained in these pages have influenced and inspired legislation, shaping United States policies on human equality and civil rights. Several works by theorists and philosophers who drove the expansion of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bill of Rights Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights

    Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Second Amendment Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the History, Sources, and Authorities for the Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

    by Les Adams ...
    So much of the debate about the Second Amendment is in scholarly journals and academic papers written by scholars and judges, or directed towards other scholars, law professors, attorneys, and judges. Trying to wade through the extensive footnotes and references to legal cases and historical precedents known only to the academic elite is more than enough to make anyone feel hopeless.With The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2023

    by Sarah Janssen ...
    Series series The World Almanac and Book of Facts
    #1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more.The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Law of the Land

    The Evolution of Our Legal System

    National Book Award Finalist: "A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman" ( The New Yorker).What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America's legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics, illustrating the surprisingly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Hellraisers

    The Thrilling Secret WW2 Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress—in one of the most daring raids of World War II . . .Winter, 1944. Allied forces have liberated most of Axis-occupied Italy—with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat.Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe

    A Natural History

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A tale of cave bears and comet strikes and a hundred million years of history by the bestselling author of Here on Earth: "Marvelous."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy of Malice

    The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals

    An eminent psychiatrist delves into the minds of Nazi leadershipin "a fresh look at the nature of wickedness, and at our attempts to explain it" (Sir Simon Wessely, Royal College of Psychiatrists).When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom ... Read more

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  • The President Is Dead!

    The Extraordinary Stories of Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond (Updated Edition)

    ***Updated Edition*A fun, anecdote-filled, encyclopedic look at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of every president and a few “almost presidents,” such as Jefferson Davis.**Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Six Day War

    The Breaking of the Middle East

    by Guy Laron ...
    The author of Origins of the Suez Crisis "mak[es] us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbors" ( Financial Times).One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. Now, historian Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World History

    From the Ancient World to the Information Age

    by Philip Parker ...
    Series series DK Ultimate Guides
    Take a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an essential guide for anyone who loves history or wants to broaden their knowledge. This accessible book covers over 350 of the world's most important turning points, from our earliest human ancestors of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD