Birth History

There has never been a nation like the United States of America. Its impact on the world is unprecedented in all of human history. After two and a half centuries of existence, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without it. But how did it come into existence? Who has really done justice to this astonishing story? Innumerable books have been written about the American Revolution, but the definitive treatment of the full story simply does not exist—certainly not in our generation.

The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period.

From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth?

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....

In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.

“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious...

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine ...

Ancient Civilizations – Mesopotamia History – The Cradle of Civilization – The Epic of Gilgamesh – The Code of Hammurabi – Sumer and Babylon – The Assyrian Empire – Ancient Near East History Five thousand years ago, on a scorching plain of mud between the Tigris and the Euphrates, humankind did something it had never done before: it built the first cities, invented writing, and carved the first laws — creating the world we still live in today. They called their land Mesopotamia. Their story is bloodier, stranger, and more astonishing than any myth — and almost everything ...

New York Times Bestseller | Narrated by author Bret Baier “This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier’s gift to us. From Roosevelt’s resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as police commissioner to his dramatic fights for reform as governor and...

Unleash your inner Einstein with the most exhiliarating, laugh-out-loud trivia book ever written! Be catapulted on a whirlwind adventure through the zany, weird, and utterly fascinating realms of knowledge, as we take trivia to a whole new level of fun! Packed with 1,522 mind-blowing facts spanning science, history, pop culture, and more, this rip-roaring, side-splitting tome is perfect for trivia buffs and inquisitive minds of all stripes, comprising everything from the astonishing to the absurd, the hilarious to the hair-raising, and everything in between. "Brain-Boosting Facts for ...

Are you ready to hop aboard a time machine and travel through 250 years of American adventures? In 1776, a brand-new nation was born against all odds. Almost nobody expected it to survive. It did. This audiobook brings history to life through the true stories that shaped America. Young listeners will sneak through the night with the Sons of Liberty, shiver beside Washington’s army at Valley Forge, follow Harriet Tubman to freedom, explore with Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea, and ride all the way to the Moon.

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017. More than forty years...

Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a powerful journey into the events, ideas, and people behind the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence: Explore the Conflict, Courage, Vision, and Legacy of America’s Independence brings history to life with vivid storytelling, engaging analysis, and powerful reflections on liberty, justice, and civic responsibility. Historian Bill Wiemuth weaves the gripping story of how this iconic document came to be—and why it still matters today. Discover: The real events and debates that led to the break with Britain The writing, ...

'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply researched and thoughtful' Irish Independent 'Fans of Phillips's earlier books Humans and Truth...

We know it simply as "the pill", yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic.

“Comforting, inspiring and beautifully written, Caroline is a precious addition to the story of the Ingalls family but stands on its own as a testament to the spirit, grit and courage that built America.” - Mary Jane Clark USA Today Bestseller! In this novel authorized by the Little House...

John Winthrop did not cross the Atlantic to escape power. He crossed to build it. In 1630, Winthrop led the Massachusetts Bay migration into New England with a charter, a fleet, and a vision of a godly commonwealth. His settlers did not arrive as loose refugees seeking private freedom. They came to build a disciplined Puritan society where law, faith, work, and obedience were bound together. From the founding of Boston to the famous “city upon a hill” warning, Winthrop shaped one of the most influential colonial societies in early America. But the New England he helped create was not a ...

DESERT RAIDERS tells the explosive true story of David Stirling, the birth of the SAS, and the men who dared behind Rommel’s lines in the brutal desert war of North Africa. Before the Special Air Service became one of the most famous special forces regiments in the world, it was an unlikely experiment: a small band of restless soldiers, misfits, volunteers, drivers, navigators and raiders who believed that a handful of men could strike harder than an army if they moved fast enough, quietly enough, and deep enough behind enemy lines. In the vast emptiness of the Western Desert, the normal ...