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Much of Africa's past has now been excavated from ignorance and error, revealing a rich and previously little-known human heritage.

In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work

Matthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the United States government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer knew that Armageddon was near.

Hecht claims doubt and questioning are one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions.

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera.

On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted.

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war.

James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their quest to find out what happened to the boy-king.

Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered and the murderer remains at large.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.

When the first Dutch Calvinist settlers arrived in South Africa, they believed that they had been chosen by God to rule over the world.

This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend.

A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains.