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Examines the history, people, politics, religion, geography, and culture of Afghanistan, offering a revealing portrait of the war-ravaged nation and the Taliban regime and including new information covering events up to spring

The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war.

Celebrates the history of America in the words of famous and not-so-famous Americans, including selections by Christopher Columbus, Mark Twain, a Lowell Mill worker, Malcolm X, and a Gulf War resister, interspersed

America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed. Former allies Adams and Jefferson,

A social history of English artistic pioneers who made key achievements in the first half of the twentieth century discusses their challenge of the Victorian bourgeoisie and overall contributions to the cultural