An epic narrative documents the fight to create the United States of America, beginning with the deterioration in relations between England and her colonists and chronicling the events of the American Revolution until the last British flag was lowered during the siege of Yorktown. Reprint.

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

History

Bobrick, Benson

Americas

Penguin??Books

Tells the story of the English Bible, with details of how King James assembled a team of experts, including John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to translate the text into English, and examines the political, social, cultural, and spiritual ramifications of the King James Bible. Reprint.

Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

Europe

The King James Bible, the most famous English-language Bible, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, most notably John Wycliffe in the fifteenth century and William Tyndale in the sixteenth. In this enthralling account of the tumultuous politics surrounding the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages, Benson Bobrick, a professor from Columbia University, shows how the achievement of Tyndale and other translators had a permanent influence on the English-speaking world. 
As the historian Macaulay wrote of the King James version: ‘If everything else in our language should perish, it alone would suffice to show the extent of its beauty and power.’ But the King James scholars relied on Wycliffe and particularly Tyndale, polishing their translations and giving us phrases that are still part of the English language: – ‘eat, drink and be merry’, ‘the powers that be’, ‘the salt of the earth’, ‘let there be light’, ‘and the truth shall make you free’, ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’, ‘the root of all evil’.,‘fight the good fight’, ‘a thorn in the flesh’, ‘labour of love’, ‘the fat of the land’, ‘the sweat of the brow’, ‘to cast pearls before swine’ ‘am I my brother’s keeper?’ among them. As Benson Bobrick shows translating the Bible had been a chancy business: caught in the political dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope, Tyndale was imprisoned and executed as a heretic. Henry and later Elizabeth embraced the English Bible. Free to interpret God’s word according to their own understanding rather than listen to priests read from the Latin, allowed, Bobrick argues, revolutionary concepts of liberty and free that led to the English Civil War and the overthrow of Charles I.

The Making of the English Bible : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

World

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

A dynamic Civil War book with a fresh angle from an award-winning writer. Bobrick profiles General George H. Thomas, an overlooked scion of the Civil War, and shows the military choices that saved the Union. Also examined are President Lincoln, the causes of the war and the various personalities who have shaped our understanding of the war today. This compelling book, rich with visuals including maps, photos, original documents, and more, offers new insights into a key topic for American homes and classrooms. A particularly exciting read for boys. The Battle of Nashville is another contribution to Knopf's list of high quality nonfiction such as Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley and Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong.

The Battle of Nashville: General George H. Thomas & the Most Decisive Battle of the Civil War

Children's Books

Biographies

Knopf Books for Young Readers

A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times

From the barefoot races of 8th century BC to the underwater obstacle courses in the early 20th century to the high-tension Berlin Games preceding World War II, the Olympics have always been exciting dramas of athletic prowess and human interest. In A Passion for Victory, award-winning author Benson Bobrick tells the details of the captivating story of the Olympic Games, starting with their inception in Ancient Greece. This wonderfully readable narrative is rich with anecdotes and profiles of athletes and weaves in important historical events to create a complete picture of each installment of the Games. This thorough account of an international fixation is gripping, poignant, and occasionally hilarious.

Teen & Young Adult

Sports & Outdoors

A dynamic Civil War book with a fresh angle from an award-winning writer. Bobrick profiles General George H. Thomas, an overlooked scion of the Civil War, and shows the military choices that saved the Union. Also examined are President Lincoln, the causes of the war and the various personalities who have shaped our understanding of the war today. This compelling book, rich with visuals including maps, photos, original documents, and more, offers new insights into a key topic for American homes and classrooms. A particularly exciting read for boys. The Battle of Nashville is another contribution to Knopf's list of high quality nonfiction such as Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley and Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong. From the Hardcover edition.

The Battle of Nashville

A subcontinental land-mass one-and-a-half times the size of the United States, Siberia is the richest resource area on the face of the Earth. It is also the hope of Russia's desperate future, as the former Soviet republics break away. Yet, to most people, Siberia remains obscure. This narrative covers four centuries of history, telling the story of Siberia's conquest and settlement, from the first crossing of the Ural Mountains by an outlaw band of Cossacks in 1581, up to the present. It describes the subjugation of Siberia's aboriginal tribes; the great explorations of the 18th century that defined its extent; Russia's attempt to "extend" Siberia to America (with settlements in Alaska, California and Hawaii); its transformation into a penal colony for criminal and political exiles; the building of the astonishing Trans-Siberian Railway across seven time-zones from the Urals to Vladivostok; Siberia's critical role in the bloody civil war that followed the October Revolution of 1917; and the Gulag Archipelago, which corrupted its very soil. The book ends with a succinct account of Siberia today. The American author also wrote "Fearful Majesty: the Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible" and "Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Techology and War".

East of the Sun the Conquest and Settlem

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

"NOT..A CHRONICLE OF COMPLETED PROJECTS, BUT RATHER A HISTORY OF ...INTENSELY HUMAN ACTIVITY INVOLVING THE PERSONALITIES OF ENGINEERS IN THE FIRM AS WELL AS THOSE OF THEIR CLIENTS."

Parsons Brinckerhoff : the first hundred years

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

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Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

The Making of the English Bible : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

The Battle of Nashville: General George H. Thomas & the Most Decisive Battle of the Civil War

A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times

A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times

The Battle of Nashville

A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times

East of the Sun the Conquest and Settlem

Parsons Brinckerhoff : the first hundred years