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"The panoramic story of Waterloo, from its causes to its aftermath, told through uniquely interwoven narratives drawn from the diaries, letters, reminiscences, and great novels of participants and witnesses--published in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle. With Bonaparte's escape from Elba in February 1815, the world was jolted from the profound peace it had experienced for eleven months back into the frenzied panic of a war it believed...

A five-alarm documentary that explores the shocking realities of the impending oil crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maverick energy experts and thinkers, they debunk the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb and more.

Explores a first-century manuscript that asserts that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene; that she was gentile, not Jewish; that they had children; and that there was another plot on Jesus' life prior to his trial and execution.

"Every evening for 8 years, at his request, President Obama received a binder containing ten handpicked letters from ordinary American citizens -- the unfiltered voice of a nation -- from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first to President to save constituent mail, and this is the story of how those letters affected not only the President and his policies, but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening the millions...

"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--

Contains primary source material. Presents the diaries of Victor Klemperer in which he recorded the details of his life as a Jew in Hitler's Germany between 1941 and 1945, providing an account of the escalation of Nazi tyranny, some of which he was spared due to his marriage to a full-blooded Aryan.