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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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Primera guerra mundial: Una guía fascinante sobre la primera guerra mundial y cómo el tratado de Versalles de 1919 influyó en el surgimiento dExplore la Fascinante Historia de la Primera Guerra MundialLa Primera Guerra Mundial fue uno de los conflictos m s devastadores de nuestra historia. El n mero de muertos no se pareci a nada experimentado anteriormente, y se estima que m s de 11 millones...
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Women of Interest: The Ultimate Book of Women's TriviaFunny and Feminist TriviaWomen of Interest is a humorous compendium of little known facts about the history, fame, fortunes, fashions, and fictions of the female species-enough to impress your mother and your boss, win arguments with your boyfriends and husbands, and generally know more...
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Fore! Gone: Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses, 1897-1999A golf course on a swamp? On a prison grounds? Next to a sewage disposal plant? Yes, yes and yes -- and joined by courses built by millionaires, played by champions and designed by experts. From the crazy to the classy, "Fore Gone. Minnesota's...
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The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in HistoryOn the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's prized submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Thirty-three members survived, largely because of the efforts of U.S. Navy officer Charles Swede Momsen. In this thrilling true account, Maas vividly recreates the...
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Vaux-Le-Vicomte: A Private InvitationThis comprehensive monograph is an exclusive look inside the ch teau that inspired the design of Versailles and today continues to enchant visitors and film directors alike. Vaux-le-Vicomte's rich history began in 1641 when infamous French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, the original owner, surrounded...
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Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth CenturyMany assume that modern works of art are easily preserved; that their whereabouts can be readily established, thanks to sophisticated documentation sys-tems; and that, in general, they are not subject to loss or destruction. But many important works have disappeared over the last century...
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Yes to Life: In Spite of EverythingFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece from the author of the international bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna....
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Cold War Frequencies: CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern EuropePublished for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the gray broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or...
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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows...
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Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing WestIn this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and...
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Vitamin P3, New Perspectives in PaintingAt last - the next instalment in the popular Vitamin series - the world's hottest painters, selected by international expertsSince the publication of the first Vitamin P in 2002, painting has continued to evolve and excite, with new generations responding to its historic importance...
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Figureheads: On the Bow of the ShipFigureheads, the carved wooden sculptures that decorate the prows of sailing ships, offer protection for the crew from harsh seas and lends the vessel its specific spirit--or at least that was the theory in the distant past. Figureheads developed from an ancient tradition of...
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Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, C.1870 to 2000Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices have enticed a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens...
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Clyfford Still: The Late WorksAn exclusive look at the late work of one of the most influential and enigmatic painters, whose late-career paintings are virtually unknown to the public and many are published here for the first time. Clyfford Still (1904-1980) is a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, along...
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Tibet: The Roof of the WorldTibet is vast - three times the land area of the United Kingdom or the US state of Texas, but with only a small fraction of the population. Most Tibetans claim to be Buddhists, but for many Buddhism is a veneer over older, darker...
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The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations [Special Edition]Nothing could demonstrate more clearly Nathan Rothschild's profound confidence in his own powers, and his resolute character, than this simple narrative. So rapid was his success in Manchester, that before many years had passed he found even that was too limited a sphere for...
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Gerhard Richter: AbstractionNow available in paperback, this book offers a unique survey of Gerhard Richter's abstract works bringing together 80 paintings from collections worldwide. This book focuses solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the...
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The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging SixtiesIn the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for good.Through a mix...
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History's Queen: Exploring Mary's Pivotal Role from Age to AgeThe Virgin Mary's part in history doesn't begin and end with her yes to God. Popular Catholic author Mike Aquilina points out that Mary is at the center of history from creation to the end of time and everywhere in between. In History's Queen,...
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Franklin PierceThis biography introduces readers to the life of Franklin Pierce including his military service, early political career, and key events from Pierce's administration including the Gadsden Purchase, the Treaty of Kanagawa, and Bleeding Kansas. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years...
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