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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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Religion and War from Antiquity to Early ModernityResponding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparativeand cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historicalperspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.Individual chapters focus on the ancient Near...
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Reimagining Europe: Thinking in CrisisEssays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today's crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.Reimagining Europe comprises a series of contributions which address, in various ways, the relationship between Europe and continental philosophy/phenomenology. Europe is in crisis: a crisis...
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Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing ProgramTraces young Native women's lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workersIn the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay...
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Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory RevisitedWhy are gods and idols ubiquitous throughout the ancient world? What is the relationship of consciousness and language? How is it that oracles came to influence entire civilizations such as the ancient Greeks? If consciousness arose far back in human evolution, how can it...
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Recreating Maine's First ShipIn the summer of 1607, a group of approximately one hundred men arrived at the Sagadahoc River in their vessels, the "Gift of God" and the "Mary and John," sent to explore the region of "Northern Virginia." Under the guidance of shipwright Digby, these...
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Reconstruction in PhilosophyThough best remembered today as a philosopher of early-childhood education through his influential 1899 work The School and Society and the essay "The Child and the Curriculum," John Dewey also expended considerable thought on the progress of philosophy itself. In this striking book, first...
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Reclaiming the "Dark Ages": How the Gospel Light Shone from 500 to 1500See how the thread of orthodoxy runs throughout the history of the church - even in the thousand years known as the "Dark Ages". If you study church history closely, you will see that there is a continuous thread of faithful, glorifying theology that...
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Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical ImaginationHaiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a...
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Real MadridThis action-packed book gives young readers a full history of Real Madrid, from the club's founding to the present day. The book features a table of contents, informative sidebars, a Superstar Profile special feature, a Quick Stats page, a glossary, links to additional resources,...
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Real MadridThis action-packed book gives young readers a full history of Real Madrid, from the club's founding to the present day. The book features a table of contents, informative sidebars, a Superstar Profile special feature, a Quick Stats page, a glossary, links to additional resources,...
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Readings of the Gateless BarrierThe Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty-eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called "public...
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Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim CrowWhen the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a debate over journalism standards. Many white southern editors, for instance, designated Black Americans as "Negro" in news stories, claiming it...
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Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century CaribbeanThis collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention...
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Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century CaribbeanThis collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention...
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Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National MonumentIn recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America's public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the...
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PrideAs Toronto marks the fiftieth year of its first gay rights march comes this celebration of those who march with pride. For the past fifteen years, Toronto photographer Angel Guerra has captured his city's pride parade on a human scale. In these 120 photographs,...
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Prayer and Pen: The Prayers and Legacy of Carl Murphy, Publisher of the Afro-American Newspapers (1922-1967)The remarkable legacy of Carl Murphy, the acclaimed publisher of the AFRO-American newspaper, will remind you to always find your solace and strength in God. Fifty of Murphy's prayers, along with other proverbs and words of wisdom, have been lovingly collected in this volume....
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Potez 63-11. France 1940Highlights the Potez 63-11 aircraft used by the French Air Force in 1940, featuring detailed 1/72 scale plans and 12-14 color profiles with bilingual captions.The Potez 63-11 aircraft used by French Air Force in 1940 is featured here.This book consists of 16 pages and...
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Portrait Of Myself Margaret Bourke WhiteThis autobiography of the pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White recounts her remarkable life and career, from her early days as a student at Cornell University to her time as the first female photographer for Life magazine and beyond.This work has been selected by scholars as...
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Pope Paul VI and His Quest for Peace: 1963-1978: Volume One: "Never Again War!"Pope Paul VI, 1963-1978, ranks among the most influential even if less recognized figures in the history of the twentieth and we can even say twenty-first century Roman Catholic Church. He inherited and embraced what he had first described as the "hornet's nest" of...
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