Revolutionary in design and strikingly beautiful, the schooner America set out in 1851 to beat all the best yachts put forth by the world’s greatest maritime nation.

As a writer, inventor, and statesman, Benjamin Franklin was unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the uses to which he put them.

Your pulse quickens. Your mind focuses. The mission is clear, the maneuvers rehearsed, and there are no second chances.

This work is based on the author’s experiences during three short visits to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855.

William Clarke Quantrill was a schoolteacher, Confederate soldier, and the most notorious guerrilla of the Civil War.

This is the biography of a man who refused to compromise his beliefs to save his own life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) paid the ultimate price for his faith and principles.

In today's ultra-competitive world, the average supermarket has 40,000 brand items on its shelves...

The human body evolved to live well and fight off disease on a supply of only a dozen or so essential nutrients. Unfortunately, modern meat-laden, high-sugar diets provide catastrophically inadequate levels of those nutrients.

In his book science writer Rush Dozier, Jr., takes us on a thrilling journey through the brain science and everyday reality of this most quintessential human emotion, fear.

How to Read a Book, first published in 1940, is now a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best, most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, now completely rewritten and updated.

G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory.

In just a few years early in the twentieth century, the federal government grew from one tiny cog in the machinery of American life into a colossus, controlling the behavior of every individual.

In their own words, recorded in the journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. This is Moulton’s abridgement of his definitive Nebraska edition.

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 called for total disclosure by all federal agencies and private individuals of material relevant to JFK’s murder.

In 1898, when the Spanish- American War was not going well for the United States, Richmond Pearson Hobson survived a “suicide mission” in a failed attempt to block Santiago Harbor in Cuba and was instantly a hero.

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.

How did C. S. Lewis, literary giant of Christian faith, go from being a staunch atheist to one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?

Here is the long awaited follow-up to the business best-seller Work in America redefining the state of the workplace today.

This work is remarkable for the vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, solely by means of his letters to his love Barbara and her answers to him.

Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.

Smallpox was a terrifying human scourge. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left survivors disfigured for life.

All of the geniuses in Six Great Scientists had one thing in common: the determination to do scientific research whatever the obstacles....

Long before the success of his Grammy winner, “The Girl from Ipanema,” Stan Getz was a fixture among jazz greats, having played in the Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman big bands.

This memorable collection of anecdotes about America’s national pastime will take you into the dugout, clubhouse, and press box with some of the game’s greatest players and storytellers.