Find out all about mysterious Buddhism, its origins, its secrets, and its answers to the challenges of modern life.  This book contains a basic overview of Buddhism, including the life of Buddha and the various kinds of Buddhism that have developed. ...

Buddhism: A Beginners Guide Book for True Self Discovery and Living a Balanced and Peaceful Life

After the Civil War, the fight for civil rights spawned a multitude of heroic African American activists, but it is remembered in large part for the work of a few iconic African American men of stature. Much like their later counterparts, Reverend Ma...

Marcus Garvey: The Life and Legacy of the Jamaican Political Leader Who Championed Pan-Africanism

“From the far reaches of the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River, the faithful approached the city of Mecca. All had the same objective: to worship together at the most sacred shrine of Islam, the Kaaba in Mecca. One such traveler was Mansa Musa, Su...

Mansa Musa and Timbuktu

This book is filled with basic information of what Zen Buddhism is. It contains the different teachings and principles of Zen together with the ways on how you can start living the Zen lifestyle. This book contains easy ways on how to start your Zen ...

Zen Buddhism

On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed acr...

The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean

Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.  When can we trust what we believe - that "teams and players have winning streaks", that "flattery works", or that "the more people who agree, the more l...

How We Know What Isn't So

Profiles the seminal events that helped Hitler rise to power and consolidate his position, including the end of World War I, the Beer Hall Putsch, the Burning of the Reichstag, and the Night of the Long Knives.  "I cannot remember in my entire life s...

The Rise of Nazi Germany: The History of the Events that Brought Adolf Hitler to Power

History is full of tales of men who were in the right place at the right time and thereby rose to greatness, but rarely is the story told of a man who was in the right place at the wrong time. The life of Eugene V. Debs is such a tale.  Debs was born...

Eugene V. Debs: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Socialist Political Leader

"My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly." - Pancho Villa  "Pancho Villa," p...

Pancho Villa: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mexican Revolutionary

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception from the ground up, as the ancient Egyptians had no prior civilization they could use as a template. In fact, ancient Egypt itself became a template for the civiliz...

Thoth

To the ancient Egyptians, as was the case with any society made up of inquiring humans, the world was a confusing and often terrifying place of destruction, death, and unexplained phenomena. In order to make sense of such an existence, they resorted ...

Anubis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator." (Antoni Gaudí)  Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golde...

Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism

Gain a deeper insight into your mind, body, and spirit by uncovering the secrets of the seven chakras. Find out what they are, how they work, and how you can tap in to the power to transform your life. This book demystifies the ancient knowledge abou...

Understanding Chakras

"The object of the war is...to physically destroy the enemy. That is why I have prepared, for the moment only in the East, my 'Death's Head' formations with orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or langua...

The Nazi Invasion of Poland: The History of the Campaign That Started World War II

"I had carefully learned to understand, about that experience which I could have upon things of rule, how fortune is failing or great, subject to such rule in common, so that otherwise I would have had scant reason to desire such a rule, had I not fo...

Gustavus Adolphus: The Life and Legacy of Sweden’s Most Famous King

One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the man Robert E. Lee called his "old war horse". Longstreet was Lee's principal subordinate for most of the war, ably ma...

Lee's Old War Horse

“Pancho Villa,” people whispered at the beginning of the 20th century, "can march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism...

Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata

In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealand’s coast. Thus, he was also one of the...

The Maori

In 1932, America faced an economic crisis even more severe than the one it has been experiencing recently. The issue then, as now, was how to address it. When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office, he faced more economic problems than any pre...

The Civilian Conservation Corps

When invoking the term "German unification", many might initially think of the tumultuous period at the end of the 20th century when Communist East Germany and Democratic West Germany came together to form the modern German state. However, that was t...

The Unification of Germany: The History and Legacy of the German Empire’s Establishment

A little more than 100 years ago a Mexican peasant named Emiliano Zapata gathered a rural army from the plantations and villages of southern Mexico, seized the lands of the haciendas, and began to distribute them among the peasants of Anenecuilco, hi...

Emiliano Zapata

Germany's Nazi Party was remarkably implacable in the hostility it showed to the outside world, staunchly opposing both Communism and liberal democracy from the moment of its inception to that of its violent dissolution. The Nazis likewise showed ste...

The Night of the Long Knives

Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria...

Ra: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Sun

Like many civilizations of past millennia, the Vikings are remembered in popular culture more for the fantastical accounts of their history than for reality. The written records of the history of the Viking period, consisting mostly of Norse sagas, m...

The Vikings in Iceland: The History of the Norse Expeditions and Settlements Across Iceland

 To the ancient Egyptians, as was the case with any society made up of inquiring humans, the world was a confusing and often terrifying place of destruction, death, and unexplained phenomena. In order to make sense of such an existence, they resorted...

Osiris

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the interwar years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Histori...

The Weimar Republic

Isis

Hathor: The History of the Ancient Egyptian Sky Goddess and Symbolic Mother of the Pharaohs

In 1969, America was still undergoing plenty of social turmoil, much of it the result of sweeping changes made via the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, which helped spark the counterculture. Protests were prominent across the country, and o...

The Stonewall Riots

Despite a Union victory and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, unthinkable in the previous century, a new form of suppression and violence descended on the African American population. “Reconstruction” is employed as a generic term for the period t...

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois

If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal. The rolling rectangular fields are composed of immaculately neat horizontal stripes in vibrant swatches of scarlet, pin...

Tulip Mania

From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries.  ...

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Navajo by Charles River Editors

"Pancho Villa," people whispered at the beginning of the 20th century, "can march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism...

Pancho Villa

The American South has given birth to many of the nation's great stories and legends. From the earliest Colonial times, it's been a place of mystery, replete with disappearing colonies and strange apparitions in the woods, but the South's long and pr...

Mysteries of the South

The Osiris Myth

The Great Migration was the name coined for the mass movement of African-Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line in the years following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The enormous promise of emancipation proved to be illusory for the maj...

The Harlem Renaissance: The History and Legacy of Early 20th Century America’s Most Influential Cultural Movement

"Even if I could, I would not wish to expunge this time from my life. I am happy to know that I have done my duty toward my people, my duty as a German, as National Socialist, as loyal follower of my Fuehrer. I regret nothing." - Rudolf Hess during t...

The Controversial Flight and Capture of Rudolf Hess

The Khmer Empire, also known as the Angkor Empire, was a powerful empire of Southeast Asia that was established in AD 802 and ended in 1431 with the invasion of the Siamese and abandonment of Angkor. The Khmer Empire was responsible for many of the h...

The Khmer Empire

The Carolingian Dynasty, which carved out a major empire in Europe from 750-887, ushered in an important period in the Early Middle Ages. The Carolingians were in their time seen as the successors of Ancient Rome in the West, and while they sought to...

The Carolingian Empire

In early November 2016, Salar Abnoush, a leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the IRGC "will be in the US and Europe very soon." This quote came just before the US presidential election, a time when President Barack Oba...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the inter-war years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos and the state’s ultimate collapse. Histori...

A Brief History of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany Before World War II

There is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, “a most brutish and savage race, having heads, eyes, and teeth like those...

The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island

The US Census Bureau defines the Midwest as consisting of a dozen states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Outsiders often deride the region, and for many who h...

The Mysterious Midwest

When readers last saw Eddie Grant in Treasure of Saint-Lazare, he was hot on the trail of Nazi war loot in the company of his on-again, off-again lover, Jen. As readers and listeners return to Eddie's shadowy world of undercover deals and thugs in th...

Last Stop: Paris

There are few characters in Egyptian myth whose image and name are more widely known than Horus. His name most probably means “The Distant One”; as the celestial falcon, his wings were believed to span the length of the distant sky, and his eyes were...

Horus

"These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side. In their mouse-holes, out of which they now want to come, of course they hear nothing of the cheering of the masses." - Hitler speaking about Communists as the Reichstag burned  "I...

The Burning of the Reichstag

"It did not take long before the first heavy gray stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many-colored windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heav...

Kristallnacht

To possess and develop western North America became a high priority for the United States government even before its Constitution had been complete. For President Thomas Jefferson, the vast terrain of plains, mountains, and extensive coastlines offer...

Liver-Eating Johnson

“Nobody was kept more completely in the dark than the President of the United States.” - Anthony Nutting, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs    World War II changed the dynamics of colonization irrevocably. India was granted independence ...

The Suez Crisis

When Jolie Gentil goes to buy a cup of coffee the morning after a storm knocks out power at her house in Ocean Alley, she finds Java Jolt unlocked and minus its owner. A bigger surprise is seeing proprietor Joe Regan a few minutes later, badly injure...

Ground to a Halt

The Knights Hospitaller formed in the 12th century and continue to exist in contemporary times, albeit in a considerably different form. Over the last millennium, the organization has fulfilled different roles, served varying masters, and continued t...

The Knights Hospitaller

It would be hard if not outright impossible to overstate the impact Roman Emperor Constantine I had on the history of Christianity, ancient Rome, and Europe as a whole. Best known as Constantine the Great, the kind of moniker only earned by rulers wh...

Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Constantine the Great

A land of almost three million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of Australia w...

The Aborigines and Maori: The History of the Indigenous Peoples in Australia and New Zealand

Start a sentence with "Get your kicks on..." and most Americans will immediately complete the sentence with "Route 66". Route 66 conjures up visions of a fun road trip across the United States, whether it was a bird's eye view from a snappy convertib...

U.S. Route 66

As one of the hottest political topics in the world today, nearly everyone is aware of the ongoing violence in Syria, between forces loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad and opposition looking to overthrow the regime. Within that narrative are a nu...

The History of Syria: 1900-2012

Veteran bootlegger. Prolific bank robber. Kidnapper extraordinaire. Ruthless criminal mastermind. With a nickname as hardcore as George “Machine Gun” Kelly's, it should come as no surprise that such terms are frequently associated with him. Eighty-si...

Machine Gun Kelly

Seth

Hank Hammond, ink hardly dry on his private investigator business cards, never anticipated that a chance encounter with a pair of suspicious characters and a mysterious crate would change his life forever. But it did, and nearly ended his life...also...

Double Take

North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism. But the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themse...

The Controversial History of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons and the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program

Over the centuries, the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what’s known and not ...

The Origins of the Vikings: The History and Legacy of the Early Norsemen Who Became Medieval Europe’s Most Notorious Explorers

In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, President Truman tried to assure Americans who were worried about Communists in government that he was "not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a p...

McCarthyism

"We are of a single nation, of the same blood, but forcibly divided." - attributed to Kim Il-sung North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism, but the startling satellite image was any...

The Kim Dynasty of North Korea

The story of the Silk Road has been a popular topic among tourists, academics, economists, state parties, and daydreaming children for many centuries. In many ways the Silk Road can be seen everywhere, and it has existed for as long as people have tr...

The Silk Road

“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.” (William Randolph Hearst) When William Randolph H...

William Randolph Hearst: The Life and Legacy of 20th Century America’s Most Influential Publisher

Submarines exercised a decisive impact on the outcome of the Pacific Theater in World War II. The US submarine fleet, largely though not exclusively under the overall command of Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, strangled the supply lines and shipping t...

Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

Despite a Union victory and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, unthinkable in the previous century, a new form of suppression and violence descended on the African-American population. “Reconstruction” is employed as a generic term for the period t...

W. E. B. Du Bois

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's 30 years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating coope...

Learning From Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the inter-war years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Histori...

History in 30: The History of the Weimar Republic

"There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il-sung and great Comrade Kim Jong-il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the par...

North Korea: The History of the Notorious Hermit Kingdom

*Includes pictures  *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading  *Includes a table of contents   The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forceful...

Swahili

Hinduism is one of the world’s great religions, dominating the Indian subcontinent for most of the last millennium, and its largest temple is an unbelievably magnificent structure located in Angkor, Cambodia. Known in English as Angkor Wat ("City Tem...

Angkor Wat: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Hindu Temple

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the pow...

Osman I

The Aborigines: The History and Legacy of Australia’s Indigenous People

"We are of a single nation, of the same blood, but forcibly divided." - attributed to Kim Il-sung A tyrannical lineage secured by nepotism. An entire nation indoctrinated by chilling, mind-boggling propaganda, molded by fear and forced ignorance. Mas...

Kim Il-sung

Danger prowled under both the cold gray waters of the North Sea and the shimmering blue waves of the tropical Atlantic during World War II as Adolf Hitler's Third Reich attempted to strangle Allied shipping lanes with U-boat attacks. German and Briti...

Submarine Warfare in World War II

It is impossible to conduct a war without atrocities occurring, primarily because war itself is an atrocity, but when those who win the war write the histories, as they almost always do, they typically ignore or seek to explain away their own malevol...

Camp Douglas

The Vikings in Greenland: The History of the Norse Expeditions and Settlements Across Greenland

"You can see that what motivates us is neither self-conceit or self-interest, but only a burning desire to join the battle in this grave 11th hour for our German Fatherland... One last thing I can tell you. Either the German revolution begins tonight...

The Beer Hall Putsch

The phrase "east meets west" is a worn cliché, but it is entirely appropriate for Lebanon, which is situated at the western end of the trade routes from Asia and the eastern end of the sea routes to Europe through the Mediterranean. It has thus bred ...

A Timeline History of Hezbollah

The Korean War was a watershed event for a number of reasons. Not only was it considered the first military action of the Cold War, as well as one of the first to utilize jet planes kitted out with bombs and missiles, the United Nations immersed itse...

The Korean Demilitarized Zone

Few figures in Hollywood's history have been as acclaimed and controversial as director Roman Polanski, whose legendary films would stand out if not for the fact that they're often eclipsed by the turbulent life he's led. The son of Polish parents, P...

Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate

Shortly after World War II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities began investigating Americans across the country for suspected ties to communism. The most famous victims of these witch hunts were Hollywood actors, such as Charlie Chap...

Joseph McCarthy

“Girls must be partners and comrades, rather than dolls.” (Attributed to Agnes Baden-Powell) Given the prominence of scouting culture in the US, many assume the movement is rooted in North America. On the contrary, the movement was initiated in and s...

The Girl Scouts: The History and Legacy of the Popular Youth Organization Across the World

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." - Frederick Douglass  "Our objective is complete freedom, justice, and equality, by any means necessary."...

Decisive Moments in History: The Civil Rights Movement

The Expansion and Apogee of the Ottoman Empire

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." (James Dean)   A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' America...

American Legends: The Life of James Dean

"I've had great success being a total idiot." - Jerry Lewis  A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, ...

American Legends: The Life of Jerry Lewis

“I cherish as strong a love for the land of my nativity as any man living. I am proud of her civil, political and religious institutions...But I have some solemn accusations to bring against her. I accuse her of insulting the majesty of Heaven with t...

William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley: The Lives and Careers of the Civil War Era’s Most Famous Publishers

"If we can't live as men, we sure as hell can die as men.” – A prisoner in Attica In 1971.  America was still undergoing plenty of social turmoil, much of it the result of sweeping changes made via the Civil Rights Movement of the previous decade and...

The Attica Prison Riot

The Fourth Crusade from 1202-1204 is significant in medieval history because it was the first time a crusade was directed against another Christian group. It was also significant since it encompassed two of the four major sieges of Constantinople, an...

The Fourth Crusade

In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the ...

History for Kids: The Battle of Gettysburg

Amelia Earhart once noted, "In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble." And so it would be with America's other famous aviator. Charles Lindbergh had spent the first 30 ye...

The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

The year is 1930. The US is still freshly reeling from the cataclysmic stock-market crash the previous October and is desperately attempting to claw its way out from the slippery pits of the Great Depression. Four thousand miles away, British Prime M...

Alan Turing

In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the...

History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Harriet Tubman

The Expansion of the Vikings

The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Dvorets Sovetov) was an unrealized project for the construction of a high-rise administrative building in Moscow to be used for sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and mass demonstrations. According to archi...

The Palace of the Soviets

On February 1, 1979, amid great fanfare, exiled cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini landed in Tehran. The return of the leader of the revolution to his home country was one of the final markers of the Iranian Revolution, a national phenomenon that had...

The Iran Hostage Crisis

Hinduism is one of the world’s great religions, dominating the Indian subcontinent for most of the last millennium, and its largest temple is an unbelievably magnificent structure located in Angkor, Cambodia.   Known in English as Angkor Wat (“City T...

Experience Angkor Wat

At 10:00 a.m. on September 12, 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir appeared before a special session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Wasting no time, the austere, chain-smoking grandmother addressed a full house of 120 members. "I want to share m...

The Munich Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Terrorist Attack on Israeli Athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics

"When General Kim Jong-il was born, the clouds opened up, and he came down from heaven, and then there was a huge snowstorm! When General Kim Jong-il shouts out loud, storms always happen, huge storms always happen!" - "Dear Leader," a state-issued a...

Kim Jong-il: The Controversial Life and Legacy of North Korea’s Second Supreme Leader

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Dan graduated from Virginia Military Institute (1981), third among Economics majors, simultaneously completing the Modern Languages curriculum. He served in the Infantry, then as a reservist in a Special Forces support role, next as a Training Company Commander and later in a classified Army Research Institute role. Dan completed his Master of Business Administration at William & Mary (1986). He and wife Laura married in 1988, loved raising their four children, and assisted both Boy and Girl Scouting through their church. During his practice (retired Dec 2017) Dan’s professional designations included: Chartered Financial Consultant & Chartered Life Underwriter (1989), Certified Financial Planner® (1992) and Certified Business Interm

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