Popular Controversies in World History: The High Middle Ages to the Modern World
This selection of ongoing historical debates lets readers analyze some of the most captivating controversies of the era from 1000 C.E. to 1900 C.E. Did the Chinese reach North America 70 years before Columbus? Did Kind Richard III murder his adolescent nephews? Is it true that Lincoln provoked the South into the attack on Fort Sumter? These are just a few of the questions from the second millennium C.E. that have raised more than a shadow of a doubt and caused heated debate among historians.
In Charles de Lint's world, the skin between the mundane business of everyday life and the realm of magical mischief is always thin. Passing from one to the other is effortless and can take but a moment. Often, his characters are deep into the doings of the world beyond before they begin to notice or admit that anything unearthly is going on.
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But Inside I'm Screaming
But Inside I'm Screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection. While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.
Balkan Battles: A History of the Balkan Fronts of the First World War
The Great War had begun in the Balkans, the almost inevitable result of decades of intrigue, assassination and fratricidal conflict among a host of relatively minor nationalistic groups. In four years of seesaw combat, several local nations were recruited by the warring alliances; three were completely overrun. When the final great offensives that would end the war began on all fronts, it was only fitting that the Balkans should be the first to crack and the enemy disintegration begun there. This is the story of the crossing of broad rivers, agonizing retreats through snowy mountains and struggles in
The Last Crusaders: East, West, and the Battle for the Center of the World
The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the period?s last great conflict between East and West, and the titanic contest between Habsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. From the great naval campaigns and the ferocious struggle to dominate the North African shore, the conflict spread out along trade routes, consuming nations and cultures,
