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Vincent P. De Santis is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught for many years. After receiving his Ph.D. From Johns Hopkins University as a student of C. Va...

One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the ...

A Newbery and Sibert Honor Book! A riveting and often chilling story of Germany´s powerful Hitler Youth. A PB edition in an accessible new novel-sized reformat for Scholastic Focus! In this Newbery H...

Here is New York, as you’ve never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York Ci...

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life´s most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports...

This fascinating visual account of firearms shows everything from the earliest cannons to modern weapons of war. It also highlights how gun technology and military tactics developed in tandem over tim...

Watch a 700-year history unfold, from the medieval “hand-gonne” to today’s technologically advanced assault weapons.  Discover how gun design influenced warfare, from the 15th century when the arqueb...

Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster. For centuries New York was famous for this...

This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendant...

An insightful and thorough account of the Arab-Israeli conflict ranges from the birth of Israel to the present day, told from firsthand knowledge of the major characters and events, written by a forme...

Esta coleção de 47 contos da antologia seminal de mitos gregos de Gustav Schwab apresenta as ilustres façanhas de Hércules, Jasão, Odisseu e uma série de heróis. Através dos desenhos magistrais de Cli...

For 150 years the seven emirates remained under British rule in the Arabian Gulf, many of their development aspirations and achievements could not come about because of the limitations that rule impos...