History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes discu ...more

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The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

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The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

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The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

Brad Balukjian (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Apr 02, 2024

They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn’t listen.

From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack , comes another eye‑opening road trip a They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn’t listen.

From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack , comes another eye‑opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively popular pop culture—professional wrestling—starring the Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, and many more larger‑than‑life characters of the WWF of the 1980s.

In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his dream job as a magazine fact-checker to pursue another partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose real name is Khosrow Vaziri), to write his biography. Things quickly went terribly wrong, culminating in the Sheik threatening Balukjan’s life. Now seventeen years later, Balukjian returns to the road in search of not only a reunion with the Sheik, but something much truth in a world built on illusion. He seeks out six of the Sheik’s contemporaries, fellow witnesses to the World Wrestling Federation’s (WWF) explosion in the mid-80s, along with the man driving the ship, Vince McMahon, to unearth their true identities. As Balukjian drives 12,525 miles around the country, we revisit the heady days when these avatars of strength, villainy, and heroism first found fame and see where their journeys took them. Balukjian plumbs their lives outside the ring, uncovering the pain of the inevitable transformation into their ring personas as myth merged with reality. From working out with Tony Atlas (Tony White) to visiting Hulk Hogan’s (Terry Bollea) karaoke bar, we see where these men are now and how they have navigated the cliffs of fame.

The Six Pack is fascinating for its humor, honesty, and clear‑eyed look at the spectacle of sports entertainment. Balukjian combines the spirit of a fan with the rigor of an investigative reporter, tracking down former WWF employees who have never spoken publicly on the company’s inner workings. But what makes this book so compelling is the humanity beneath each wrestler. Wrestling is perceived as a subculture, a sideshow without a cultural home, somewhere between sport and dance and theater and improv. It is often dismissed by the elites as low‑brow, silly, and simplistic. But ironically, an industry built on illusion is underlain by radical truth, and is arguably among our most democratic forms of entertainment. The Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, and the rest of the cast were not pieces on a game board or characters in a comic book movie. They were real people, with families and feelings and bodies that could break. Most of them did, in fact, break; some have been repaired, but none of them will ever be the same. ...more
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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

Roseanne Montillo (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Jun 20, 2023

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The Complete Poems of Al-Mutanabbi

James F. Warren (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Nov 01, 2022

The author is giving away 50 Kindle copies of his new English verse translation of the work of the "Arab Shakespeare," who lived in the 10th century. ...more
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