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Christian Bible Study Participant's Guide: It's Not What You Think - Paperback

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by Andy Stanley (Author)Why is there so little agreement on what it means to be a Christian? In this eight-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), join pastor and bestselling author Andy Stanley as he examines the characteristics Jesus used to define those who follow him and the implications these characteristics have for believers today.In Christian: It's Not What You Think, you'll learn: The one word that should be descriptive of every Christian. How Jesus' fol...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Jerry Brotton (Author)More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale,...

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica - Paperback

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by Martin Hammond (Author), John Atkinson (Author)"He was a man like no other man has ever been" In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egypt to Uzbekistan. Arrian, a Greek man of letters, military commander, and holder of the highest political offices in both Rome and Athens, wrote the definitive account of Alexander's life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis. A dramatic fast-mo...

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by Thucydides (Author), Martin Hammond (Translator), P. J. Rhodes (Author)"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. A participant in the war himself, Thucydides brings to his history an awesome intellect, bri...

History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials - Paperback

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by Kate Messner (Author), Falynn Koch (Illustrator)Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Salem Witch Trials in the hit History Smashers nonfiction series. Perfect for fans of the I Survived books and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. In 1692, a few paranoid Puritans accused their neighbors of being witches sending the town flying off the (broomstick) handle. Before it was all over, dozens of women in Salem, Massachusetts were executed--burned at the stake. RIGHT? WRONG! There ...

Nkjv, Chronological Study Bible, Leathersoft, Black, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)Take a journey through the history and culture of the Bible with the only study Bible that unfolds in historical order.The NKJV Chronological Study Bible presents Scripture in chronological order--the order in which the events happened--with notes, articles, and full-color graphics that connect the reader to the history and culture of biblical times. Starting with creation and moving through God's people in the Old Testament, the life of Jesus and the birth of the chu...

Welcome to Texas (Welcome To) - Hardcover

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by Asa Gilland (Illustrator)Welcome to Texas! Whether they're locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of "The Lone Star State." With information about the state's animals, plants, regions, food, people, customs, and fun places to visit, this tribute to Texas is the perfect gift for vacationers and residents alike. The warm, bright illustrations highlight the many delights to be found throughout the state, and the easy-yet-informa...

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by Jonathan Steinberg (Author)This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tea...

Mrballen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories - Paperback

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by Mrballen (Author), Andrea Mutti (Illustrator), Robert Venditti (Contribution by)A vivid, frighteningly illustrated graphic novel collection of nine strange, dark, and mysterious stories, based on true events, from the mind behind the YouTube channel and hit MrBallen Podcast John Allen, known popularly as "MrBallen," has been enthralling audiences with his unique brand of storytelling ever since he burst onto the scene, covering strange and mysterious phenomena ranging from the unexplained ...

Voices from the Past: Volume 2 - Hardcover

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by Richard Rushing (Author)Richard Rushing has compiled a further 365 daily devotional readings to take you through the year with the Puritans. Building on Voices from the Past (volume 1), Voices From the Past 2 is an additional treasury of wisdom from such authors as Stephen Charnock, Thomas Manton, David Clarkson, Thomas Brooks, John Bunyan, and Jonathan Edwards, and others. The editor has painstakingly selected these readings from their sources, some of which are still widely available ...

MacArthur Study Bible-NKJV-Large Print - Bonded Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)Dr. John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word. From the moment you pick it up, you'll know it's a classic. The MacArthur Study Bible is perfect for serious study. Dr. John MacArthur has collected his pastoral and scholarly work of more than 35 years to create the most comprehensive study Bible available. No other study Bible does such a thorough job of explaining the historical co...

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom - Paperback

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by David F. Walker (Author), Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator)A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book w...

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

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by Steve Coll (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction - A New York Times bestseller "The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying." --The New York Review of Books From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan. To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who...

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy - Paperback

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by Adam Tooze (Author)"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study...Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." --Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany'...

Purple Gang in the North: How Club Manitou was Planned, Built, Operated, and Transmogrified - Paperback

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by Judith Landis (Author), Mark Huck (Author)Detroit's notorious Purple Gang had expansion plans: the northern woods of Michigan and its summer resorts. By 1929, Club Manitou was in operation, with a maze of escape tunnels surrounding its basement speakeasy. Here is the history of the club and its owner, with details of the building not previously known.. Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 26, 2022

Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command - Paperback

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by Lewis Sorley (Author)A man of extraordinary inner strength and patriotic devotion, General Harold K. Johnson was a soldier's officer, loved by his men and admired by his peers for his leadership, courage, and moral convictions. Lewis Sorley's biography provides a fitting testament to this remarkable man and his dramatic rise from obscurity to become LBJ's Army Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War. A native of North Dakota, Johnson survived more than three grueling years as a POW under the...

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by Gene A. Getz (Author)The body of Christ can't be all that it should be unless we mature in our interpersonal relationships as the Bible commands. Building Up One Another has been helping believers do just that since 1976, when Gene Getz first published what has since become a best-selling classic. This book, the cornerstone of the well-known "One Another Series," has now been thoroughly updated and rewritten, drawing upon Dr. Getz's church planting and "building up" experience. It also inc...

The Perfect Officer: Lessons in Leadership - Hardcover

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by Henrik Bering (Author)The Perfect Officer focuses on the careers of a group of brilliant officers from the Napoleonic Wars up to our own times: what they did right, what they did wrong, and what lessons they drew from their experiences. The book's recurring theme is the importance of imagination, and it demonstrates how these men were constantly inspired by each other and borrowed each other's ideas. A number of these lessons are equally applicable in the civilian sphere, with one notable ...

The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queen - Paperback

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by Kembrew McLeod (Author)A thrilling artistic history of New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture. Award-winning author Kembrew McLeod takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the city during the 1960s and early '70s and focuses on how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds were that flourished in one square mile of downtown. These pages give life to the beat artists, gonzo filmmaker...

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry - Paperback

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by Imani Perry (Author)Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was...

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by Adrian Goldsworthy (Author)Named 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com "An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived."--Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review "The best introduction to Caesar and his world that is currently available."--Karl Galinsky, Bookforum Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor's life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, co...

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World - Paperback

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by Patrick J. Buchanan (Author)Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen- Winston Churchill first among them-the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of score...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - Paperback

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by China Miéville (Author)Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this "engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century" (Village Voice) In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable tran...

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by Sun Tzu (Author)The Art of War, the world's oldest treatise on warfare, has been studied by leaders for centuries. Dated to about fifth century BCE, The Art of War is considered the oldest treatise on war in the world. Attributed to Sun Tzu of the Zhou dynasty, the book is composed of thirteen chapters, each addressing a particular aspect of warfare, such as planning offenses, military combat, and the employment of spies. Influential in Eastern civilization for millennia and in Western cul...

To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment - Hardcover

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by Bret Baier (Author) Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how George Washington saved the Constitution-and the American experiment"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." --Jay WinikA sweeping narrative ranging from the unsettled early American frontier and the battlefields of the Revolution to the history-making clashes within Philadelphia's Independence Hall, Bre...

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by Sara Hurst (Author), Lucy Cripps (Illustrator)Explore a world that existed millions of years before people lived on the Earth, when extraordinary animals roamed the land. From the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex to the birdlike Compsognathus, the hidden wonders of the dinosaur world are revealed. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.6 x 10 x 10.9 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2018

Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology - Hardcover

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by Christopher Heaney (Author)When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how "ancient Peruvians" became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, an...

Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians - Paperback

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by Arvis Locklear Boughman (Author), Loretta O. Oxendine (Author) "There's nothing happens to a person that can't be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there's something in the earth to cure everything ... I don't fix a tonic until I'm sure what's wrong with a person. I don't make guesses. I have to be sure, because medicine can do bad as well as good, and I don't want to hurt anybody.... Maybe it takes some herbs. Maybe it takes some touching. But most of ...

In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters - Paperback

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by Nancy Goldstone (Author)The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkabl...

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment - Paperback

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by John Witte (Author), Joel A. Nichols (Author), Richard W. Garnett (Author)This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom - liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, religious equality, religious plu...

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II - Paperback

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by Daniel James Brown (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Str...

I Ain't Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America's Wars - Hardcover

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by Chris Lombardi (Author)A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak out and change U.S. p...