February 2017

Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American
history. Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray,
from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops.

Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American
history. Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray,
from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops.

Here is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed account of the Civil War, one of the most moving chapters in American
history. Introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, the book vividly traces the epic struggle between the Blue and Gray,
from the early division between the North and South to the final surrender of Confederate troops.

All of us, whatever our individual beliefs, belong to a society shaped by the Christian tradition. It is an extraordinary history. Over the
centuries since the death of Christ, his followers have known adversity and defeat as well as glory and power – the victories of
Charlemagne, or the Crusades, matched by those of Hun, Moor, or Turk.
Christianity has borne persecution and division, each taking its terrible toll martyrs. It has assumed unexpected forms, from fourth-century
Arianism to seventeenth-century Quakerism. It has been the cause and the victim of war and holocaust. It has been challenged by the
findings of such scientists as Galileo and Darwin and – never more markedly than our own 21st century – by a progressive secularism.
Yet in every sphere of Western life and achievement – in our art and literature, our politics and our law, our philosophy – we find the
enduring legacy of the Christian experience.
Here is a sound, readable guide to Christianity as a whole – its origins, its revolutionary impact on human affairs, its development over

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - found in his 1859 work The Origin of Species - shocked Victorian scientists, who equated Darwinism
with blasphemy and atheism. But the religious issue never troubled Darwin, a deeply moral man if not a profoundly religious one. He
believed that evolution by natural selection was not incompatible with belief in God, and the furor over his work shocked Darwin. Here,
from the acclaimed historian Walter Karp, is the little-told story of the complex genius who decoded one of the world's greatest mysteries.

From his father, Charlemagne inherited only a part of the Frankish kingdom - little more than half of modern France and the Low
Countries. Before his astonishing career ended, he had conquered half of Europe and his armies had marched through Italy, Germany, and
Spain. In a glittering Christmas Day ceremony in Rome, in the year 800, he was crowned the new Holy Roman Emperor.
More than the heroic conqueror of Western Europe, Charlemagne was an intense and thoughtful human being. His succession of five
wives brought him a palace full of children. So warm was his love for his daughters that he could never bear to see them married away
from the court, even though enticing alliances with other rulers were offered them.
A deeply religious man, Charlemagne became the protector of orthodox Christianity against medieval heresies. A patron of learning, he
established schools and brought artists and scholars to his court to work and study. As a result, most classical literature comes down to us
in copies of books made in Charlemagne's time.
Here, from National Book Award winner Richard Winston, is his remarkable story.

New York's Central Park has captured the hearts of nature lovers the world over. Yet its meadows, brooks, and glens are man-made - and the man who made them was Frederick Law Olmsted.
Here, in this short-form book by award-winning historian and journalist Walter Karp, is its surprising and seldom-told story.

The roving Celts struggled and traded with the Greeks and Romans for centuries. With no written language or any sense of nationality, the
Celts nevertheless were bearers of a distinctive, rich, and influential culture.
Here, in this short-form book from the renowned archeologist Geoffrey Bibby, is their story.

In his three extraordinary voyages, Captain James Cook made history. He was the first to discover Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and
the first to circumnavigate New Zealand.
By the 1700s, England, eager to expand its realm of trade, promoted exploration of all the unclaimed regions of the world. The eighteenth
century, the age of reason and enlightenment, required a new kind of explorer: not a rover or a plunderer or a seeker of adventure for its
own sake, but a master of navigation and seamanship. Captain James Cook filled the bill.
No one ever surpassed Cook's record. From South America to Australia, from the ice islands of the South Pacific to the fogbound Bering
Strait, lay thousands of miles of islands, atolls, and ocean that Cook charte

In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa,
half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades,
they presided over its dissolution.
Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth
of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.