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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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The Art of WarThe Art of War, also known as the Sunzi ("Master Sun") or Sunzibingfa ("Master Sun's Art of War / Master Sun's Military Strategy" ), is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun...
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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual FictionsFocusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters...
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The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten MatchesJonathan Wilson and Scott Murray provide a forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool games that have shaped the club's fortunes over the last century: from the long-lost triumphs of Tom Watson (a 19th-century Bill Shankly) to 1970s European triumphs over the likes of Borussia...
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The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi SultanateWonderfully well researched . . . engrossing, enlightening' The Hindu The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that...
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The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at Gettysburg: Like A Perfect Hornet's NestThe many works on the Battle of Gettysburg have neglected the role of the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, known for their extensive training and specialized tactics. This history is the first to explore the actions on July 2, 1863, of this Union Army regiment largely...
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That's ThatHow can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from? Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart...
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Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts, 1800-1900"This extensive study, nearly twenty years in the making, is a major contribution to the understanding of American textile material culture." - Candace J. Adelson, Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles Emeritus, Tennessee State Museum Containing dozens of beautiful, full-color photographs, Jennifer C. Core...
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century AnthologyDating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal...
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T-72: The Definitive Guide to the Soviet WorkhorseT-72 - The Definitive Guide to the Soviet Workhorse explores the evolution of Soviet T-72 main battle tank design from start to finish. By drawing on an exceptional range of original Russian sources, this book offers a new, fresh and detailed look at a...
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Swing Low, Volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United StatesA Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been...
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Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 PiesA delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyond. With corresponding recipes for each chapter and sidebars of quirky facts throughout, this book--winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Award...
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Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a " charming and picturesque" little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough. Until the day when the " charming...
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Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and ThinkingAuthor: Sarah BassettPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/08/2024Pages: 350Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9781009466325
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American OpportunityHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity? We take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case. Though for most of world history, your prospects...
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Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to IraqFrom the author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young peopleZlata Filipovic's diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children...
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Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in EnglandA dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War - the last fully armored knights in England. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from...
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Stealing the Last Arrow: The Department of Interior Indian Probate Proceedings (Softcover)The American Indian Probate Act was enacted in 2004 and became effective in 2006. The Act applies to all individually owned trust lands, unless a tribe has its own probate code. State laws no longer apply. Its purposes include preserving the trust status of...
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd TimesA "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning--and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety These days everyone feels on edge, panicked by climate change, political polarization, and...
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Staging Buenos Aires: Theater, Society, and Politics in Argentina, 1860-1920Staging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how nonelites experienced and shaped a city undergoing dramatic transformations. Commercial theater constituted the core of the city's public sphere, one in which middle-class playwrights and audiences assumed the leading role....
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Spying for Hitler: Nazis Who Infiltrated AmericaWhen Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave little thought to the world on the other side of the Atlantic other than to nurture a constant nagging resentment over President Wilson's...
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