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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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Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi--composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental...
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The Spanish Frontier in North AmericaA compact synthesis of David J. Weber's prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain's gradual retreat Praise for the previous edition: "I cannot imagine a single book giving a more comprehensive and balanced study of Spain's presence...
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums,...
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian WarA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...
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Gandhi Before IndiaA New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A revelatory work of biography, Gandhi Before India is an illuminating portrait of the life, the work, and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential--and...
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Spy: The Inside Story of How the Fbi's Robert Hanssen Betrayed AmericaSpy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the "worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history"-and how he was finally caught in an...
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Astroball: The New Way to Win It AllNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The inside story of the Houston Astros, whose relentless innovation took them from the worst team in baseball to the World Series in 2017 and 2019 "Reiter's superb narrative of how the team got there provides powerful insights into...
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The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist TaleNew York Times Bestseller Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people....
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Molly Pitcher: Young PatriotMolly Pitcher: Young Patroit is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series. A childhood biography of the Pennsylvania German woman who became a Revolutionary War heroine when she carried water to American soldiers and even fired a cannon herself during the...
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No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies"The most honest book about climate change yet." --The Atlantic "The Infinite Jest of climate books." --The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T....
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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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