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  • The Word According to Eve

    Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    "A disarming, intelligent, and timely book" that re-examines religious history and scripture with a focus on the feminine experience ( The New York Times).In the world that created the Bible, there were no female scholars and theologians, yet in recent decades, owing to such stunning discoveries as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts, as well as advances in historical understanding and ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    "From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the 'inquisitorial impulse' alive, and only too well, in our world" (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Just Passing Through

    A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

    de Milton Gendel ...
    **One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of 2022"Milton Gendel had the good fortune to live a wildly entertaining life in Rome—a charmed, romantic period he captured in diaries and photos. Milton had the further good fortune to have Cullen Murphy bring this vanished dolce vita to life." —Graydon Carter, coeditor of Air MailA never-before-seen treasure trove of photos and diary entries from the celebrated ... Leer más

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  • Rubbish!

    The Archaeology of Garbage

    It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon of garbage. Rathje and Murphy show what the study of garbage tells us ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The American Crisis

    What Went Wrong. How We Recover.

    Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Are We Rome?

    The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this."—Thomas E. RicksThe rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse.In this ... Leer más

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  • Cartoon County

    My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut—a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their ... Leer más

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    God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    Narrado por Robertson Dean ...

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    9 hora 40 minutos

    The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826—the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Conquest

    The English Kingdom of France, 1417–1450

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    This history of the Hundred Years War vividly chronicles the all-but-forgotten period when England ruled a great swath of France at the point of a sword.Following the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would place the crown of France on an English head. By the time of Henry's premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern France lay in his ... Leer más

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    The Right People

    The Social Establishment in America

    Narrado por Jason Leikam ...

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    12 hora 15 minutos

    An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd"It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for ... Leer más

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    A Shot in the Moonlight

    How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

    Narrado por Ben Montgomery, Zeno Robinson ...

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    7 hora 24 minutos

    The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a ... Leer más

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    Mourning Lincoln

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    Narrado por Donna Postel ...

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    The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the ... Leer más

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