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The first part of the Book of Enoch describes the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the Nephilim. The remainder of the book describes Enoch's visits to heaven in the form of travels, visions and dreams, and his revelations.

On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other.

In historian Tabitha Stanmore’s beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows, dissolute nobles, selfless healers, and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I’s astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in a bewildering world, buffeted by forces beyond their control. As Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach about how to accommodate the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today.

In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named “The Emerald Mile” at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, seemed not just odd, but downright suicidal.

London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.

On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general, and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years.

Verdades y leyendas de nuestra historia. Nadie pone en duda que durante tres siglos España dominó el mundo conocido y fue objeto de numerosos embates de todo tipo por parte de potencias rivales, pero ¿cómo se defendió de los ataques de sus enemigos? "Para estas batallas que nos amenazan", explicó don Quijote a Sancho Panza, "menester será estar bien mantenidos". Y España, ciertamente, estaba "bien mantenida": los recursos a los que tenía acceso eran ma­yores que los de cualquier otra nación, ya que no provenían solo de la Península, sino de todos los rincones del planeta.

La gran historia española en el Pacífico a través de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano. En el año 1525 siete naves de la expedición Loaísa-Elcano zarpan desde La Coruña con la intención de comenzar la anhelada ruta de las especias, descubierta en la primera circunnavegación al planeta, pero en esa titánica misión una de las naves, la carabela San Lesmes, encalla en una isla perdida en la inmensidad del Pacífico. Sin posibilidades de regresar, la tripulación tendrá que abrirse camino en las paradisiacas playas de la Polinesia.

In popular media and culture, the Paleolithic era is often depicted as a time when humans were completely savage, spoke with little more than grunts, hit women over their heads with clubs and kidnapped them, and of course, everyone lived in caves. The reality is that the Paleolithic era was a time of great change when humans coalesced into groups and developed different technologies that helped them survive and ultimately thrive in harsh environments.

On June 4, 2004, Marvin Heeymeyer unleashed his gigantic, armored, tank-like bulldozer upon the small town of Granby, Colorado. It was an act of defiant, but misguided, revenge upon those who he perceived had done him wrong in a long series of local property disputes. Over a period of serveral hours, Heemeyer proceeded to cause mayhem and destruction while overwhelming the efforts of local police to stop the Killdozer in its tracks.

"Este es el manual de la industria de las relaciones públicas. Bernays es una especie de gurú. Su gran golpe, el que le catapultó a la fama en la década de 1920, fue conseguir que las mujeres empezaran a fumar. En esa época las mujeres no fumaban y él lanzó campañas masivas para Chesterfield. Conocemos las técnicas: modelos y estrellas de cine con cigarrillos en la boca y demás. Consiguió un enorme éxito y se convirtió en una figura destacada y su libro en el auténtico manual"

Un relato erudito y humorístico de la mitología griega y romana. En Zeus y familia, Fermín Bocos dibuja un fresco impresionista en el que con humor y una gran erudición nos presenta un catálogo de los mitos y rituales más notorios del mundo clásico. Una obra amena de divulgación cultural que rezuma amor por la historia, la filosofía y el arte, y que lanza puentes con el mundo actual para dejar constancia de la influyente vigencia que la producción intelectual de griegos y romanos tienen hoy en día.

Una mirada a las guerras del siglo XX a través de los médicos que estuvieron en el frente. La guerra civil española y la guerra de China contra Japón trascendieron sus fronteras. Para buena parte de la opinión pública mundial, eran la avanzadilla de los grandes conflictos ideológicos y militares contemporáneos. Algunos voluntarios internacionales decidieron implicarse directamente y compartir sobre el terreno la suerte de aquellas tierras hasta entonces en los márgenes del tablero global.

Una mirada personal y lúcida sobre las Fuerzas Armadas, la España democrática y sus amenazas. Las Fuerzas Armadas españolas son una de las instituciones que han de velar por la seguridad de la sociedad y proteger su integridad ante cualquier tipo de amenazas. La de las Fuerzas Armadas es una contribución crucial para la pervivencia de España y para la libertad de sus ciudadanos. Sin embargo, a pesar del papel imprescindible que desempeña en nuestras vidas, su cometido pasa a menudo inadvertido para los españoles.

What's it take to be a Vietnam helicopter pilot and what happens when Vietnam veteran combat helicopter pilots return to Vietnam? The 61st AHC goes back to Vietnam in 2009 and builds a library learning center in Bong Son near LZ English, by joining up with the Library of Vietnam Project. And some members go back every year! A "feel good" story about the Vietnam War and a unique perspective on that experience.

Venture back to the golden age of Vikings and experience Norse Myths retold as they were, by warriors and raiders of the era, on a bold journey to secure a Danegeld unmatched by any seen before. This is Norse Mythology and Viking history intertwined into an adventure not to miss.

A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave listeners staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators.

An English poet and soldier, Owen depicted more graphically and effectively than any poet before him the horrors and realities of fighting in the trenches. His poignant verse has made him one of the greatest voices to emerge from World War I.

Gear up for a frightful jaunt into the darkest reaches of the ancient Appalachians. Folk deep within Appalachian hollers lean close to share stories of the inexplicable with hushed awe. Monsters rumbling in the hills. Strange lights darting through the pitch-black night sky. Horrible occurrences, almost ineffable in their bizarre tragedy. "Tall tales," you might say. But tell that to the Flatwoods monster in Braxton County, West Virginia.

You're born and your parents and siblings are what you have. God stuck you with them and them with you. You try and make the best of what God gave you. That's how simple life really is. Who named these nuns anyway? They were far from being saints so why did they get to be named Sister Saint anything? A drum and bugle corps is not a band. A drum and bugle corps is just what it says-drums and bugles. God had his own plan for Memere because about three hours after I found my grandfather, Memere died right there on that same couch.