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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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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and OthersThis concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world's leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and the Communist Manifesto (1848). It...
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The Children's Blizzard"David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth...
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The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001A definitive history of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement and an intriguing reference for persons outside the movement, The Century of the Holy Spirit details the miraculous story of Pentecostal/Charismatic growth--in the U.S. and around the world. This book features five chapters by the...
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The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque CountryFor the first time ever, the recipes for pintxos--the small dishes found in bars in Basque Country--are gathered to present the definitive bible on this significant food of Basque culture, along with the history and people who created them, written by award-winning author Marti...
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell"Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining."-The New York Times "A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster."-Rocky Mountain News Award-winning author Mark...
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The Best and the BrightestDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."--The New York Times Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons...
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The Bears of Grand Teton: A Natural and Cultural HistoryThe Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is also a personal account by Sue Consolo-Murphy, who spent...
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The Autobiography and Other WritingsBenjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary EditionThe 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency "[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." --The Washington Post"Fascinating." --Fareed Zakaria, NewsweekIn this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of...
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The Art of the Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo's HagakureThe way of the samurai is found in death. These words, written 300 years ago by the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo, offer a seemingly grim introduction to a practice and philosophy that was in fact anything but morbid. Offering a fascinating glimpse into the secretive...
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The Antiquities of the JewsCollected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of Flavius Josephus' The Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of the Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins...
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The Age of Melt: What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without IceA thought-provoking scientific narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture. Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they...
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of IraqA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker - Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award "Excellent . . ....
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans"Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans's first century." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp:...
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Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near EastThe twelve articles collected in this volume describe how the most basic features of Western economic organization - money, markets, land tenure and enterprise - were created in the temples and palaces of the ancient Near East. The perspective on these topics originated in...
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Teeing OffIn Teeing Off, innocence meets with adulthood in a coming-of-age story told against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The heroine--bookish but immature--struggles with the inevitable chaos of adolescence, a death in the family, and a growing awareness of how the war in Southeast...
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Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments (a Graphic Novel)How did cheese happen? Who pickled the first pickle? Explore the history of innovative food in this non-fiction graphic novel filled with facts, legends, and recipes. Have you ever wondered how some of our favorite foods came to be? How was cheese created and...
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and AssassinsFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the...
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Superman: Red Son (New Edition)Imagine a reality where the world's most powerful super-being does not grow up in Smallville, Kansas--or even America, for that matter... Superman: Red Son is a vivid tale of Cold War paranoia, that reveals how the ship carrying the infant who would later be...
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Super Interesting Facts For Smart Kids: 1272 Fun Facts About Science, Animals, Earth and Everything in BetweenDid you know that only around a quarter of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand? And did you know that cash machines in Vatican City have an option to read their instructions in Latin? Did you know tug-of-war and rope climbing used to...
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