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Drawing on more than a decade of research, this eye-opening account of one of the great mysteries of the ancient world links the construction of the pyramids and Egyptian religion to precise...

There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit: you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to figure out life's great secret. The...

Chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and map the region surrounding a tributary called the River of Doubt, detailing the...

Presents a history of the ruling women of the thirteenth-century Mongol Empire, describing their struggles to preserve a sovereignty that would dominate the world for 150 years.Author: Jack...

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial PacificAuthor: J. Maarten TroostPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: June 08, 2004Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Documents the 1972 story behind the longest-distance hijacking in U.S. history, tracing the events of the hijacking against a backdrop of civil unrest and the skyjacking wave of the early 1970s...

The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, Oleg Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian...

American pastry chef and cookbook author David Lebovitz offers a humorous and irreverent account of living as an expatriate in Paris. Includes over fifty recipes.Author: David LebovitzPublisher:...

Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered,...

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless...

Book's ISBN also used for previous editions and printings.Author: Mitch AlbomPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: October 08, 2002Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The author analyzes the century in advertising, focusing on the great "campaigns," from P.T. Barnum to Nike's "Just do it."Author: James B. TwitchellPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date:...

Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to corporate America and Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose...

A memoir of author Frances Mayes's coming of age in the Deep South, and of the region's powerful influence on her life. Mayes delves into the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the force of a...

Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social...

Presents the history of the world from a feminine point of view, discussing women's roles in the history and development of the world.Author: Rosalind MilesPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date:...

The award-winning author of The Interpreter traces her experiences as an English teacher to the sons of North Korea's elite during the last six months of Kim Jong Il's reign, an effort complicated by...

A coversation with Frances Mayes first appeared on Read it foreward in 2018--Title page verso.Author: Frances MayesPublisher: Broadway BooksPublication Date: March 05, 2019Number of Pages: 464...