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Drawing upon the journals and letters of William Adams, the first Englishmen to set foot in Japan, Samurai William presents a unique glimpse of Japan before it once again closed itself off from the world for another two hundred years.

Prominent figures of the New Deal give their viewpoints on that ambitious restructuring of American society.

A biography of the Mexican American mayor of San Antonio who became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration.

Rosario Marin is the first in her family to graduate from college and has become the treasurer of the United States and the first Latina in California to run for the U.S. senate.

A translation of the Russian novel in which a nameless hero, alienated from society, searches for the true and good in a corrupt world.

Biography of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover discussing his public career and his secretive private life.

Presents a behind-the-scenes account of the maneuvering that went on in the Bush administration in planning for the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, based on interviews with seventy-five key participants, including Bush, members of his war council, and others.

The passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful.

Discusses the role of pharoahs, priests, gods, goddesses, and various other official figures in ancient Egyptian society, and explains the rituals practiced when death occurred.