History
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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The Positive Power of Jesus Christ: Life-Changing Adventures in FaithInspiring stories of the transformative power of the Savior's love in today's world from the bestselling author of The Power of Positive Thinking. One of the most inspirational and influential spiritual leaders of the 20th century, minister and bestselling author Norman Vincent Peale transformed...
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Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial ScienceDivine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He...
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Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic RepublicAn inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citizens were not alive at the time of the 1979 Revolution. Now entering its fifth decade in...
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The Meiji RestorationFor Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a comprehensive...
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Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David OhannessianThe compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem--and a granddaughter's search for his legacy. Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares--known...
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The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement ProgramsThis book traces the evolution of U.S. federal entitlement programs from the Revolutionary War to modern times to identify and understand the common economic and political forces that have caused their nearly continuous growth.Author: John F. CoganPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 09/26/2017Pages: 512Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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American Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords Volume II: According to Their Geographical Areas of MountingAuthor: Daniel D. HartzlerPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 05/22/2015Pages: 438Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13dISBN: 9781503530614This title is not returnable
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A Whisper of BonesMaude Travers gulped for air. Why had this man struck her? Why was she on this kitchen floor in this ramshackle tenement? Blinking hard she was instantly sitting back in the anthropology lab questioning her own sanity. Was that a vision? An hallucination? Could...
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JFK Assassination Evidence of Other GunmenJFK Assassination Evidence of Other Gunmen is based on photographic evidence I uncover in my 9 years of analyzing all the films and images in the JFK Assassination case. In this book you will see real photos of all the gunmen that were there...
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle AgesAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and...
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total WarIn The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual...
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Touchdown: The Story of the Cornell BearTouchdown: The Story of the Cornell Bear chronicles the exploits of the four live bears that served in succession as mascots for the Big Red football team beginning with the legendary 1915 team through the 1930s. These enterprising bears traveled on the team train,...
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Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for IndependenceIn Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners--both British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliaries--in makeshift detention...
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Imagining a Greater Germany: Republican Nationalism and the Idea of AnschlussIn Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The...
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native CultureIn Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous...
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Sound Art RevisitedThe first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed...
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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women"Fun, cheeky" (Booklist), and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Dorothy Parker, and forty-seven other heroines from past eras on how to handle common problems women have encountered throughout history and still...
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The Hunt for History: On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures--From the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret RecordiNathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts--questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity--and he shows us what the past can tell us about the present. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with...
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The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur's MemoirJoe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, shares the epic inside story of how a working-class kid from the Nebraska prairie took on Wall Street's clubby brokerage business, busted it open, and walked away a billionaire. Joe Ricketts always had the gift of seeing what...
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Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group"A deeply-researched and well-written account of" (Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad) M19--the first and only domestic terrorist group founded and led by women--as they waged a violent war against racism, sexism, and imperialism in Ronald Reagan's America. 1981: Ronald Reagan declared...
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