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Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the PeopleThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a deterministic, predictable universe,...
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Heaven: What You Would Like to KnowThe book is about Heaven, but does not include any near death experience for sensationalism. The author shares many miracles so that the reader may understand that this is a bona fide account of Heaven because God does not back what is not true,...
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Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation CenterThis is the story of a city. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, located in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten Japanese-American internment camps built by government in the summer of 1942 to hold persons of Japanese ancestry forceably removed from the West Coast during...
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Haunted Ohio: IIBuckeye ghosts have come back to haunt you in Haunted Ohio II. This chilling, all-new sequel to Haunted Ohio, materializes over 125 tales from around the Buckeye state. Most stories in this collection have never before been published. There are tales from haunted Native...
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Hatfield 1677Colonist Benjamin Waite, a devoted husband, father, and skilled military scout in King Philip's War, reluctantly obeys orders to guide a brutal attack against a camp of Algonquian Natives.After the catastrophic event, Benjamin is burdened with guilt and longs for peace. But the Algonquians,...
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Hamoodur Rahman Commission of Inquiry Into the 1971 India-Pakistan War, Supplementary ReportThe Hamoodur Rahman Commission was officially reconstituted in 1974 to interview returning prisoners, particularly senior officers, and issue a supplementary report to their original landmark document. The supplementary report makes fascinating reading, based on the Commissions in-depth interviews with these senior officials and officers...
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Great Lakes ShipwrecksIn this book, early fluent readers will learn about famous shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, including the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Ironton, and Lady Elgin. Learn about the final voyages of the ships and when they were discovered in the depths of the Great...
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Great American World War II StoriesHere are stunning long-buried stories that give proof to the words Admiral Chester Nimitz used to describe the hero Marines on Iwo Jima: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts about American heroism and breathtaking courage during...
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Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa: (Minnetarees, Grosventres of the Missouri): With an Introductory Sketch of the TribeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War PsychologyGoverned by Affect offers a new history of psychology's contradictory and contested public life in the United States and beyond since World War II, with a special emphasis on a series of transformations which have occurred since the 1970s. For both policymakers and ordinary...
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Global India Circa 100 CEBy focusing on traders, missionaries, warriors, and adventurers--the four types of agents who are responsible for globalizing processes-- this highly accessible volume brings analytical coherence and clarity to an unwieldy subject matter. In addition to excellent coverage of more familiar topics such as India's...
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Giorgio de Chirico: The Changing Face of Metaphysical ArtThe first overview in decades of the eerie allegories of de Chirico, forefather of surrealism and genius of uncanny connectionsGiorgio de Chirico began to develop his Pittura Metafisica, or Metaphysical Painting, around 1911, painting brooding, dreamy scenes of depopulated landscapes filled with incongruous objects....
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Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and StatebuildingAccording to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons--to atone for its Nazi past--but did not play a significant role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not sustain this narrative. Daniel...
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Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James WilliamsAfrican American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad worker who also succumbed to the lure of the California Gold Rush....
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From D + 1 to 105: the Story of the 2nd Infantry Division. [Foreword by Major General Walter M. Robertson.]This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Frisse Wind: Impressionisme Van Het Noorden/Impressionism of the NorthThe new French art movement known as 'impressionism' blew through Europe like 'a breath of fresh air'. This publication focuses on artists from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, including important representatives of the movement such as Anna Ancher, Lovis Corinth, Isaac Israels, Johan Barthold...
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Freeman genealogy in three partsThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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Frederick the Great: King of PrussiaThe definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over...
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For the Love of My Enemy"Love has the power to make us do things we never thought we were capable of doing."The world is on fire in 1944, but safe within the confines of small Windsor, California, nineteen -year - old nurse Adina Robbins works alongside her father, Dr....
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Ford Mustang 60 YearsGet the full story of the original pony car in this expertly written, Ford-licensed, and stunningly illustrated Mustang history featuring commissioned photography as well as images from Ford's archives. Performance and competition were in the air at Ford in the early 1960s. But it...
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