The History of Australia
Australia is often seen as a young nation, defined by British colonization and modern settlement—but its story stretches far beyond
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The Cultural Tutor’s Grand Tour: The Story of Europe in Six Cities
In The Cultural Tutor’s Grand Tour, the ephemera of the everyday opens up to reveal a world of high art and
Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call
The invention of the telephone changed the world. That’s no exaggeration. Phones are such ubiquitous features of our lives now
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
More than a mere warrior code, Bushido is the moral breath defining Japan. In this seminal work, Inazo Nitobe unveils
The Ultimate Stoicism Collection
Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime
Into the Void: Adventures of the Spacewalkers
When Ed White, clad in his gleaming space suit with a large American flag on his left shoulder, eased himself
Supreme Inequality
“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century…Cohen’s
Secret Empires
America’s top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw
A Chance to Harmonize
In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt
King of the Gunrunners
By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest