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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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Interviews with History and PowerA posthumous compilation of this award-winning and best-selling writer and journalist's seminal, historic interviews. Oriana Fallaci was granted access to countless world leaders and politicians throughout her remarkable career. Considering herself a writer rather than a journalist, she was never shy about sharing her...
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Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern UniversityOttis Lock Award, Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association2019 Summerlee Book Prize, Center for History and Culture of Southeast TexasTexas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as...
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Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular CultureThe story of settlers in the American West, with its tales of cowboys, prospectors, and frontiersmen, is often overwhelmingly white. Black Wests brings to light the pivotal and largely overlooked contributions of Black Americans to the western narrative. Tracing Black Western storytelling through a...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryWinner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book...
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Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life and LegacyRediscovering Lincoln through the female gaze Abraham Lincoln belongs to everybody. The women he interacted with helped forge the outstanding moral character of America's greatest president. This unique Abraham Lincoln biography features thirty historical and personal essays, and within them, the stories of more...
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the WorldFor the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive...
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The Road to October 7: Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the JewsThe Road to October 7 examines what paved the way for the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and its aftermath. Part 1, "The Present," documents the Hamas invasion, the rise of Hamas, the education of Palestinian Arab children to hate and kill, the...
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Palestine Activity BookColour and contemplate! This charming sticker book is full of useful information and activities for children and introduces them through interaction and play to understand the importance and plight of the people of Palestine.All proceeds from the sale of this book go towards rebuilding...
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the AtlanticRevealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US and others In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a...
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman WorldIn her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman...
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Nantucket GhostsNantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents -- and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the humans who encounter them....
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The Leipzig ConnectionIn the shadows of the Bismarcks totalitarian Germany in 1875, a little-known medical researcher laid the groundwork for a subject that in modern times was to bring American education to its knees--behavioral psychology. A latter-day disciple, B. F. Skinner, later wrote the book "Beyond...
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Perspective as Symbolic FormErwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, this unrivaled example of Panofsky's...
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Revolutionary Bible StudyThe author began reading his New Testament chronologically while still in his youth. Now, Revolutionary Bible Study brings us the result of a lifetime of that exploration. Expect to visit every year of Century One, the main events of those years, and every person...
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Genesis Chronology and Egyptian King-Lists: The Egyptian Origins of Genesis HistoryRevealed! the hidden links between Genesis chronology and Egyptian historyThe Book of Genesis contains a 2,300-year chronology of Patriarchal births and deaths, from Adam to Joseph. Most biblical scholars believe the lists were fictional creations but Gary Greenberg, the author of The Moses Mystery,...
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The People's Guide to the United States Constitution, Revised EditionAlthough we are constantly bombarded with arguments over constitutional issues in the media, surveys show the majority of Americans have not read and understood our Constitution even though it is just 25 pages long. The reason? The language is over 200 years old with...
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Shadows on the Wall: Deterrence and DisarmamentProfessor Keith Payne has written a bold analysis of our historical context that truly is a unique contribution to the American nuclear debate. His work here considers and describes most carefully what must be judged a global challenge to which there is no fully...
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Korean Americans: A Concise HistoryKorean Americans: A Concise History tells the untold stories of the pioneering immigrants, the newly discovered tale of the first Koreatown USA, and about the first Korean aviator. The textbook conveys the Korean American experience by highlighting important moments, people, and incidents that defines...
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There's a Sheep in My Bathtub: Tenth Anniversary EditionWhat happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist chaos of Outer Mongolia? There's a Sheep in my Bathtub chronicles the adventures of the Hogan family as they try to follow God's leading into one of the world's...
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Bring Judgment DayKnown worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won...
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