The world`s first great narrative history, Herodotus`s The Histories vividly describes how the Greeks - few in number, poor, and disunited - managed to repulse a massive invasion by the powerful Persian army in the 5th century B.C.

A monumental work unsurpassed for its brilliant description, accuracy, and penetrating insights, Thucydide`s History of the Peloponnesian War is a spectacular eyewitness report of the war between Greece`s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C.E

A classic of American political thought, The Federalist is a series of eighty-five essays by three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - written to curry support for the proposed new Constitution of the United States, a document that many considered too redical

One of the most influential books ever published in America, W.E.B. Du Bois`s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that discribe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century

Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief

Following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, Tamerlane was the last and greatest conqueror the world has ever known. In 14 century he blazed through Asia at the head of a ferocious army, razing cities, torturing inhabitants and decapitating enemies and was feared throughout Asia, Africa and Europe