The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the...

Fixate your focus on the great stories from the past, the legends from the desert lands that have been forgotten but still passed on.This mythology guide will take you back to...

"Shall a man be dragged back to Slavery from our Free Soil, without an open trial of his right to Liberty?" —Handbill circulated in Milwaukee on March 11, 1854In Finding...

As part of the unique, science Know-It-Alls! Series that features stunning covers and engaging text, this book puts the spotlight on Mummies! Did you know the mummy of the Pharaoh...

THE OLDEST MILITARY TREATISE IN THE WORLDTranslated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical NotesWhen Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the...

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders...

This book: "Hell" is the first part of Dante's epic poem entitled "the Divine Comedy". Is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. Is an allegory of life that...

Learn the ins and outs of a variety of real-world topics with the comprehensive, easy-to-understand Adams 101 series. 

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with...

The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber used by the RAF in 1942 and, together with the Handley Page Halifax, was the main strategic bomber of the RAF and other air...