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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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A Letter to My Family: A Journey through Persecution in Nazi Germany, Refuge in Shanghai, and New Life in AmericaFleeing from Nazi persecution to Shanghai in 1939, Walter Berger recorded his experience by saving all his precious documents in a single briefcase. The dramatic story of this German Jewish refugee emerges from carefully preserved letters and papers, which escaped with him, traveling the...
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A Journal of the Plague Year (Daniel Defoe)A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR By Daniel Defoe, being observations or memorialsof the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London....
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Ahmad Al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of LoveThe teachings of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī changed the course of Persian Sufism forever, paving the way for luminaries such as Rūmī, Aṭṭār, and Ḥāfiẓ. Yet he remains a poorly understood thinker, with many treatises incorrectly attributed to him and conflicting accounts in the historiographical literature....
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A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the PresentThe seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s. Author: Douglas Bisson,...
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A Guide for the New MuslimThe goal of this work is to present the new Muslim with a basicguide that will help him understand and implement Islam. As already noted, the newly converted Muslim has set himself upon a new path that, mostlikely, is very different from the path...
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African-Americans Who Fought In The American Revolution - History of the United States Children's History BooksDifferent personalities helped free the motherland. African-Americans, who have been slaves for so long, also fought in the American Revolution. But what exactly did they do? You'll know the answer when you read the pages of this history book for kids. Learning about history...
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Aethelstan: The First King of England" thelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way...
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Aesthetics: A MemoirA glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration...
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Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet UnionThe book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arises from this unique historical constellation.Author: Riccardo NicolosiPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 12/31/2024Pages:...
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Adult Coloring Book For Women: Motivating & Inspiring QuotesThis is an adult coloring book by women, for women. It includes forty images, each accompanied by an inspirational quote by an accomplished woman whose life made a lasting impact on the world. 8.5 x 11 40 images each with a historical quote single-sided...
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A Day in Ancient RomeIn this title, early fluent readers will wake up in ancient Rome and follow characters as they go about their day. Read along as gladiators battle at the Colosseum, a mock naval battle takes place on a lake, and people gather at the theater...
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ADA Lovelace Creates an AlgorithmHow does a search engine find just the right information? It uses a set of instructions you never see. And that wouldn't be possible without the ideas of Ada Lovelace--the first person to describe an algorithm. With historical images and key events before and...
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A Companion to Nō And Kyōgen Theatre (Vol. 2)Nō and kyōgen theatre are among the longest continuously staged dramatic forms in the world and are deeply connected to Japanese arts, culture, society, and history. This richly illustrated two-volume set brings together the important elements of these traditions to offer new insights, with...
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A Companion to Nō And Kyōgen Theatre (Vol. 1)Nō and kyōgen theatre are among the longest continuously staged dramatic forms in the world and are deeply connected to Japanese arts, culture, society, and history. This richly illustrated two-volume set brings together the important elements of these traditions to offer new insights, with...
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Abstracts of Cape Girardeau County. Missouri Deeds, 1797-1826By: Bill Eddleman, Pub. 2024, 298 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-314-6. Cape Girardeau County was created in 1812 and was one the 5 original counties of Missouri Territory. It is located in the southeastern corner of the state overlooking the Mississippi River. Deeds...
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A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest PrejudiceIn this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the reader on...
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A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato to PutinPoison-- invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly-- taps into hard-wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats. In A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato...
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1709: The Twilight of the Sun KingIn 1709, France faced military defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession, the coldest winter of the last five centuries, a devastating famine, and financial collapse. This book is the first narrative account of how Louis XIV, the aging Sun King, his state,...
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100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our WorldCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world. From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and...
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Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National MovementZionism and Jewish Culture offers a fresh cultural perspective on Zionism, highlighting the dominant role of pre-modern Jewish culture on the modern Jewish national movement. The book investigates the history, politics and Zionist vision of the pre-state period. These issues are still relevant, thus...
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