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Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.

Today the United States is the world’s great super­power, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago - the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college - as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.

New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? We have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding.

As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration - set at the world's frozen extremes - lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called "Third Pole", the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to plant flags at the furthest edges of the Earth.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings...

Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.

A Magnificent Catastrophe tells the story of the most perverse, bizarre, nail-biting, and influential election battle ever in U.S. history: America's first true presidential campaign, and a contest so important to the future of the country that Jefferson referred to it as "the second American Revolution" because the outcome resolved so much unfinished business about just what kind of government we would have. This election in many ways determined just how democratic a country we would be.

Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution-the idea that life on earth is the product of purely natural causes, not the hand of God-set off shock waves that continue to reverberate through Western society, and especially the United States. What makes evolution such a profoundly provocative concept, so convincing to most scientists, yet so socially and politically divisive? These 12 eye-opening lectures are an examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate.

Michael Beckman is a virulent racist, bigot and Holocaust denier; he is also a prospect for the notorious Skuldmen motorcycle club in Wisconsin. When he learns that his wife is having an affair, Beckman is livid after discovering the man his wife ran off with is African American. After inheriting his elderly aunt’s home and all of her worldly possessions, in her attic he finds Nazi treasure and an ancient mirror hidden since World War II. Carved in the wood frame at the top of the mirror are the mysterious words Das Portal. It is not long before Beckman discovers that The Mirror is a ...

Adopted to different families shortly after birth, identical twin brothers Scott and Henry grow to manhood having no idea that the other exists. They ultimately wind up on opposite sides of the fence, for Scott “Zipper” Conlon is a member of the Skuldmen, an outlaw motorcycle club, and Henry Baker is a federal law enforcement officer. During a stakeout, when FBI agent Mitchell Gates observes Zipper leaving the apartment of a suspected terrorist, he implores his old Army buddy to learn what he can about the man. Although uncomfortable doing so, Zipper feels obligated, not only as an ...

In 1943, Eddie Larson went to war. He was sent to the far reaches of western China, to a place nestled in the shadows of the mighty Himalayas - the infamous Hump - to fly whatever aircraft he could coax into the skies. He was one of the youngest pilots in the China-Burma-India Theater. This is a story of manic devotion to airplanes and all things flying in a time when the world experienced vast and remarkable changes.

Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold and furious blizzards. They cross ice fields and hidden crevasses, which one of the team learns about the hard way.

Michael Beckman est un raciste virulent, bigot et négationniste de l'Holocauste ; il est également un prospect pour le célèbre club de motards Skuldmen dans le Wisconsin. Lorsqu'il apprend que sa femme a une liaison, Beckman est livide après avoir découvert que l'homme avec lequel sa femme s'est enfuie est afro-américain. Après avoir hérité de la maison de sa tante âgée et de tous ses biens matériels, il trouve dans son grenier un trésor nazi et un ancien miroir caché depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les mots mystérieux Das Portal sont gravés dans le cadre en bois en haut...

Adoptés dans différentes familles peu de temps après la naissance, les frères jumeaux identiques Scott et Henry atteignent l'âge adulte sans se douter que l'autre existe. Ils finissent par se retrouver de part et d'autre de la clôture, car Scott "Zipper" Conlon est membre des Skuldmen, un club de motards hors-la-loi, et Henry Baker est un officier fédéral chargé de l'application des lois. Au cours d'une surveillance, lorsque l'agent du FBI Mitchell Gates observe Zipper quitter l'appartement d'un terroriste présumé, il implore son ancien copain de l'armée d'apprendre ce qu'il ...

Adoptados por diferentes familias poco después del nacimiento, los hermanos gemelos idénticos Scott y Henry crecen hasta la edad adulta sin tener idea de que el otro existe. En última instancia, terminan en lados opuestos de la cerca, ya que Scott "Zipper" Conlon es miembro de Skuldmen, un club de motociclistas fuera de la ley, y Henry Baker es un oficial de la ley federal. Durante una vigilancia, cuando el agente del FBI Mitchell Gates observa a Zipper salir del apartamento de un presunto terrorista, le ruega a su viejo compañero del ejército que averigüe lo que pueda sobre el hombre...

Michael Beckman es un racista virulento, fanático y negador del Holocausto; también es un prospecto para el notorio club de motociclistas Skuldmen en Wisconsin. Cuando se entera de que su esposa está teniendo una aventura, Beckman se pone furioso después de descubrir que el hombre con el que se escapó su esposa es afroamericano. Después de heredar la casa de su tía anciana y todas sus posesiones mundanas, en su ático encuentra un tesoro nazi y un espejo antiguo escondido desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Talladas en el marco de madera en la parte superior del espejo están las ...