Thomas Cahill

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1) Heretics and heroes: how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world

Author

Cahill, Thomas

Series

Hinges of history volume 6

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

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From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.

2) Desire of the everlasting hills: the world before and after Jesus

Author

Cahill, Thomas

Series

Hinges of history volume 3

Language

English

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Book, Book - Large Print, eBook, Kindle

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus—an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization.
"Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] makes Jesus a still-living literary presence." —The New York Times

In his subtle and engaging investigation...

3) Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter

Author

Cahill, Thomas

Series

Hinges of history volume 4

Language

English

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In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife...

4) A saint on death row: the story of Dominique Green

Author

Cahill, Thomas

Language

English

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On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures and the protests of...