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Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

The critically-acclaimed historian’s insights, sense of humor, and sharp pen take on everything from Vietnam, Israel, and the Great War to writing history and its meaning. Includes these essays: Why Policy-Makers Do Not Listen; When Does History Happen?; Is History a Guide to the Future?; America as an Idea; How We Entered World War I; and more

Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans, and its tragic errors.

The problem isn’t that liberal authors present their opinions or interpretations of history from an obvious left-wing bias. Students learn, for example, that the Founding Fathers were elitists who drafted the Constitution in order to protect their own economic interests; that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers; that racist groups such as the KKK represented our society in the early twentieth century.

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs.

In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on 10 of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country - in spite of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that pollute current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq war, and other contentious issues.

The 12 essays in Wars within a War explore the internal stresses that posed serious challenges to the viability of the opposing sides in the Civil War as well as some of the ways in which wartime disputes and cultural fissures carried over into the postwar years and beyond.Comprised of contributions from leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865.

Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue.

Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history".

Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the "essence" of America can be traced to the foundations of our history--literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another--and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.

Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened.

The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The 20th century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 was so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it - and the results are proving calamitous.

Ob Püppchen oder Powerfrau: Frauen wissen scheinbar nicht so recht, was sie eigentlich wollen. Wenn dann auch noch Männer mitreden, wird es wirklich kompliziert. So tobt er täglich, der Kampf der Geschlechter, und das seit über 100 Jahren. Ob in Werbung, Diskussionen, Hits und Filmen, Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg und Hans Sarkowicz sind überall fündig geworden und haben die besten Originalaufnahmen der letzten Jahrzehnte zu einer so einzigartigen wie urkomischen Sammlung vereint.

Famous for its unflagging narrative power, fine organization, and irresistibly persuasive arguments, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has earned a permanent place of honor in historical literature. Gibbon's elegantly detached erudition is seasoned with an ironic wit, and remarkably little of his work is outdated.

Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt? Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne! Was mit Euphorie begann, hörte sich bald ganz anders an: "Deutsch die Uhr, deutsch der Klang". Aus dem Deutschen Reich wird eine Diktatur, deren Gegner immer hemmungsloser vernichtet werden. Neben Originaltönen aus der Politik wie z. B. Auszügen aus den Hetzreden von Adolf Hitler und seinem Progagandaminister Joseph Goebbels, sind hier auch die mahnenden Stimmen von Erich Kästner, Otto Wels u. v. a. zu hören.

RAF, Energiekrise, Schlagerparade, Willy Brandts Kniefall in Warschau. In den 70er Jahren hatte der uneingeschränkte Konsum ein Ende, der Terrorismus wütete, Utopien wurden zerstört. Die heile Welt fand sich in Schlagern wieder, in Blumendekor und Schlaghosen. Und gleichzeitig beginnt in dieser Zeit die Entwicklung zu einem modernen Europa.

Beatlemania, Studentenunruhen, die erste Mondlandung. Eines kann man den 60er Jahren nicht nachsagen: dass Stillstand geherrscht hätte. Es waren die aufregendsten Jahre der Nachkriegszeit: Kalter Krieg zwischen Ost und West, Mauerbau zwischen BRD und DDR...

Love-Parade und Teletubbies, "Blühende Landschaften" und Korruption, Mauerschützenprozesse und "Ostalgie-Welle". Das waren die 90er Jahre...

Das neue Jahrhundert begann turbulent: Albert Einstein entwickelte seine Relativitätstheorie, Zeppeline erhoben sich in die Lüfte und Forscher drangen bis zum Nordpol vor. Doch die Euphorie wurde erschüttert, als 1912 das Wahrzeichen des Fortschritts, die Titanic, im Meer versank. Und mit der Ermordung des Erzherzogs Franz Ferdinand stürzte Europa schließlich in den Ersten Weltkrieg. Die ersten erhaltenen Originalaufnahmen des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die Redakteurin Dorothee Meyer-Kahrweg ausfindig gemacht und zu einem beeindruckenden Hörbild zusammengestellt.

Goggo-Mobil und Nierentisch, Sissi und "Grün ist die Heide". Das waren die 50er Jahre. Jahre des Neuanfangs, des Wirtschaftswunders, der Sehnsucht nach Elvis und Coca-Cola...