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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Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945"Monumental... [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire." - The Wall Street...
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Socrates: A Man for Our Times"Spectacular . . . A delight to read."--The Wall Street Journal From bestselling biographer and historian Paul Johnson, a brilliant portrait of Socrates, the founding father of philosophy In his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer...
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Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye"My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing."--Jasper Johns, 1965 Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work...
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions--not to mention the president and his advisers--could benefit from reading." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States...
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."--Saturday ReviewAuthor: Frederick L. AllenPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 07/16/1986Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize:...
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The Scientific Revolution"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic...
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged."-From Lucy's LegacyIn his New York...
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Imagining the Balkans"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of...
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My...
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Hollywood"Hollywood -- nine big white letters against the Hollywood Hills. Every year millions of people come from all over the world and look up at this famous sign. Why do they come? They come to see the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,...
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The Hitler of History"A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the...
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Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America"A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular c"Author: James Davison HunterPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 10/14/1992Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.08h x 5.30w x 1.08dISBN: 9780465015344About...
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In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson"A major contribution." Washington PostThe authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most significant figure in American history. He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves, a revolutionary...
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America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."--Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would "stay with his own kind," Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism...
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Target Switzerland"A fascinating and enlightening explanation of the dilemma Switzerland found itself in during the 1930's and 1940's." --Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Stephen P. HalbrookPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.20h x 5.91w x 0.94dISBN: 9780306813252About the AuthorStephen P. Halbrook has a Ph.D. from...
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Shakespearean Actor!: Some Roles You Might Not Want to Play- Fits in well with social studies and U.S. history curricula.- Draws in even the most reluctant reader with a lighthearted tone and hilarious illustrations.- Includes glossary and index.National Social Studies Education Standards: Grades K-4II. Time, Continuity, and Change- Accounts of past events, people,...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversFor two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud...
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New YorkEqual parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." --The New York Observer "The Poisoner's Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties." --Financial Times "Reads like...
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SpareIt was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must...
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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against TerroristsInstant #1 New York Times bestseller! In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists.In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers...
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