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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered from Carracci to Tiepolo: The Making of the AffettiArmida reaches out to Rinaldo armed with a long knife. She hates him, she wants to kill him. Cupid restrains her arm, but the left hand of the sorceress already lies on that of the sleeping hero, a touch that leads her to fall...
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Through the Scope: The life of an Army Sniper"I calmed my breaths and crouched down to get my bearings. l slowly raised my M-14 rifle, the familiar weight both comforting and sobering. My finger hovered over the trigger, my sights on the guerrilla. My world became the small circle of the scope,...
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Through A Blue-Eyed Lens: A Memphis MemoirThrough a Blue-Eyed Lens is a poignant memoir that takes the reader on the improbale journey of Shelley, a young white girl, in the 1960s South. When Shelley arrives from teh outer reaches of Wyoming, her new stage is Memphis, a segregated city increasingly...
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This Man's Army: a War in Fifty-odd SonnetsThis 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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The Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu: A Study of Traditional Athletics in IranThe athletes known in Iran as pahlavāns and the domed structure, the zurkhāneh, where they congregate to practice ritualized martial arts, physical culture, and spirituality, are usually presented as the cornerstone of traditional Iranian masculine identity. However, this idealization does not do justice to...
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The Yugoslav Art Space: Denegri in the First PersonA critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponentJesa Denegri (born 1936) has been the most influential historian and theorist of Yugoslav modernist art of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet despite recent international interest in Yugoslav modernist...
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The World Today: Its People and PlacesAuthor: Linda Connor, William Norton, Michele Visser-WikkerinkPublisher: Portage & Main PressPublished: 07/01/2006Pages: 315Binding Type: HardcoverSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781553790822Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorNorton, William: - William Norton, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James CookNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, THE NEW YORKER, THE SMITHSONIAN, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage...
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The White Bonhoeffer: A Postcolonial PilgrimageAs we start to name an aspect of his existence which long remained unspoken, namely his engagement and wrestling with his own identity as inhabiting a white body, interpreting and understanding Dietrich Bonhoeffer today is perhaps more complex than ever. The White Bonhoeffer offers...
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The Way We Were--Part 2: Personal Reflections on Life in the OzarksThe Way We Were . . . Personal Reflections on Life in the Ozarks-Part 2 is a curated collection of 53 articles from Lonnie Whitaker's award-winning newspaper column in the Howell County News in Willow Springs, Missouri. The stories recall a time when one-room...
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The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest in AmericaThe history of art activism in the US: how art and artist have changed the world O'Neill-Butler argues that the braiding of art and politics is an essential, yet overlooked, part of America's cultural history. That artists have long fought hard against injustices; that...
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The Voice of DestructionHermann Rauschning was president of the Danzig senate from 1933 to 1934 and had been Hitler's frequent guest, often for long periods of time.Author: Hermann RauschningPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 06/18/2003Pages: 295Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.52w x 0.77dISBN: 9781589801363Review Citation(s): Ingram Advance 04/01/2005...
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The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863: Grant's Failed OffensivesWith a focus on Grant's offensive strategy, this is a fully illustrated overview of his campaign, covering the river warfare and ironclad fights.The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi, stands as the prime example of how the...
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The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military OperativesThe first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit―an explosive and unlikely story of service and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the...
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The Turban: A History from East to WestUnravel the fascinating history of the turban, from its origins to its religious uses and its appearance in contemporary fashion and culture. A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms of the garment...
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The Students and Their Books: Early Modern Practices of Teaching and LearningThe topic of this volume is the teaching and learning practices in the major and minor academic centers of renaissance Europe and their relevance for early modern intellectual history. Academic knowledge is here regarded not as a finished product but as a process, induced...
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The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War EraA gripping tale of determination, betrayal, and the struggle for dignity amid societal and personal chaos.In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America, historian Michael deGruccio offers a gripping tale of ambition, self-making, and tragedy set against the backdrop of the American...
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The Square's Heart: Works from the Erling Neby CollectionA complex portrait of the impact of geometric and concrete artOver the past 50 years Norwegian art collector Erling Neby has built an extraordinary collection of Geometric and Concrete art. This catalog features over 100 works by Victor Vasarely, Max Bill, Auguste Herbin, Josef...
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The Soul of Man Under SocialismIn The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true...
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The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a RegimentReimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade, the Sixth...
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