People Collide by Isle McElroyRequirements: .ePUB readers, 3.2 MB | RetailOverview: From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians—“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat Johnson)—a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership. When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with […]
Europe’s Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800 by William H. McNeillRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.1 MBOverview: In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment […]
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeillRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 3.24 MBOverview: Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact–political, demographic, ecological, and psychological–of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as […]
Stop Overeating: The 28-Day Plan to End Emotional Eating by Jane McCartneyRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1 mbOverview: Many of us struggle with overeating and losing weight. We all know what we should be eating, but somehow we still reach for those unhealthy foods that deep down we know aren’t doing us any good. In this new […]
Greek Hoplite Versus Persian Warrior: 499-479 BC by Chris McNabRequirements: .PDF reader, 25.6 MBOverview: The Greco-Persian Wars (499–49 BC) convulsed Greece, Asia Minor, and the Near East for half a century. Through a series of bloody invasions and pitched battles, the mighty Persian Empire pitted itself against the smaller armies of the Greeks, strengthened through […]