“St. Louis was the bowling capital of the world,” he says ... But this book highlights the comprehensive, multifaceted and hyper-local history of St. Louis sports history — from bowling ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's book "The World" investigates the history of humanity through families - the Caesars and Borgias, the Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts and the House of Saud. The book spans a ...

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

On the surface, the book looks admirably comprehensive, and Barnhart himself appears well ... t mean jack to her"), multiple cliches ("I am only scratching the surface of a history that could fill a ...

Noted naval historian Craig Symonds has given us a short, comprehensive global history of ... as it includes almost every important work on the subject. World War II at Sea, A Global History is a good ...

Around that time, Saskia also began her research on Château Lafite: The Almanac (out in December from Flammarion), a century-spanning family scrapbook documenting the science, history ...

(Book World review.) Wong tugs at the thread of a personal story — his father’s stymied military career and eventual disillusionment with communism — to offer a sweeping history of modern ...

“This is designed as a tourism book, this is not a comprehensive history with footnotes like ... “You can open up the world of Edgefield wherever you are with this book and find out that ...

The Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip had been declared a military zone, which allowed the Israeli army to deny access to Israeli citizens other than residents. They were thus able to exclude ...

MONTEFIORE: So I hope that one finds as much variety here as one does in the book as one does in world history. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ODE TO BILLIE JOE") BOBBIE GENTRY: (Singing) It was the 3 of ...