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For thirty years, Nizam al-Mulk ruled the Seljuq Empire, wielding more power than the sultans he served-until the fall night in 1092 when an assassin's blade struck him down on the road to Baghdad. Among the papers he left behind, an unpublished manuscript warned that "damaging and odious enemies" had infiltrated the government. "One will not know the extent of their intrigues and their ruses until I am gone."Determined to learn who was behind...

Michael Isenberg casts aside the traditional textbook approach and presents the study of history as a series of puzzles to ponder, with neither right nor wrong answers. Thinking about history, from this point of view, becomes an exciting intellectual adventure that has little to do with rote memorization. This stimulating, open-ended approach focuses not on quick answers but on searching questions, the building of a relationship between an ind...

This book uncovers the roots of the Sullivan myths that help mark the break between America's isolated rural past and its modern urban culture.

The economy has crashed (again), the Nanny State is out of control, and software engineer Gimbel O'Hare just wants to do his job. Not easy, given that his boss is out to get him, the Department of Justice has him under surveillance, and one of his co-workers is suing him for sexual harassment. He finds refuge from the stress by indulging in spy movies, his obsession with Jon Dunn, Secret Agent Beta-11, leads him on an off-the-wall journey arou...

In The Longest Year, a valiant father, courageous mother, and loyal children confront adversity. Their family's passage of life, death, and love touches and teaches: Reading, we look within ourselves. Deeply felt and lyrically written, it bares the priorities that matter and why.

I once asked George H.W. Bush his priorities. "Family, friends, and faith, " he said. This book shows why. In The Longest Year, a valiant father, courageous mother, and loyal children confront adversity. Their family's passage of life, death, and love touches and teaches: Reading, we look within ourselves. Deeply felt and lyrically written, it bares the priorities that matter -- and why. Curt Smith, Former Presidential Speechwriter, Author, b...