So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
6 best books like So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848 (John S.D. Eisenhower): The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived, Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You about the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
| Author | Brian Greene |
| ISBN | 0965900584 |
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the...
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 0345427521 |
With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0060859512 |
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
| Author | Daniel James Brown |
| ISBN | 0061348104 |
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
Over the past 150 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. These weren't simply variations on apes, but upright-walking humans who lived side by side, competing, cooperating, sometimes even mating with our direct ancestors....
| Author | James F. Dunnigan |
| ISBN | 0688122884 |
"Dirty Little Secrets of World War II " exposes the dark, irreverent, misunderstood, and often tragicomic aspects of military operations during World War II, many of them virtually unknown even to military buffs. Like its successful predecessor, "Dirty Little Secrets," Dunnigan and Nofi's new...
