Books at Bookhabit.com http://www.bookhabit.com 2008-08-28 07:37:07 The CLARA NEVADA is the ghost ship of the Klondike Gold Rush. It sank in February of 1898 with $5 million in gold. Ten years later, almost to the day, it resurfaced. The author believes the sinking to be a cover for robbery. This was the largest mass murder in American history until the Oklahoma City bombing and is the largest unreported robbery in American history -- twice the size of the Brinks Job. The book also tells where the gold is most likely to be today! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=272 This is an anecdotal approach to teaching high school students that history and economics are intertwined. The book is designed to give the student a thumbnail sketch of a dozen events of merit in American history intertwined with the basic economic laws. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=278 Who is God? Or more to the point, what is God? In a series of essays, the writer looks at this religious phenomenon and others to try to find some answers. Not through theology or spirituality but from a social and historical point of view. Controversial? Probably. But researched from as much material as the writer could piece together. The supposed facts never seem to add up. All the signs point in misleading directions and what facts are available appear to have been manipulated. How accurate are the conclusions? That may depend upon your own personal faith. But within this dearth of confusing information the truth is there. Somewhere. What do we really know about Moses and Jesus? Were they even real people? There are over 22000 different religious sects, and yet, only one God. So, what do you believe? Read with an open mind and you just might believe something entirely different. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=572 Far to often what is called "History" talks about the grand sweep of the era. It does not include the people, the actual human beings, who made up the era. This is a street-level look at the Alaska Gold Rush where the names of the people fingerprint Few Clothes Molly, Billy the Horse, Croaker Kid, Diamond Tooth Gertie, Ham Grease Jimmy, Komoko John, Long Shorty, Nellie the Pig, The Gambler's Ghost, Three-ingered Bob, True Story Stuffin and Wrong Font Thompson. This book is THEIR story. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=258