History
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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How Christianity Changed the WorldWestern civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic, secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people today have little sense of how their lives have benefited from Christianity's influence, often viewing the church with hostility or resentment. How Christianity Changed the World is a topically arranged Christian history...
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the OccultThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered invisible forces of electricity and magnetism determined the world of science, unseen powers...
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Hitler's I'm KampAn updated version of Adolf Hitler's treatise with the LGBT slang words put back in.Sincerely dedicated to those wonderful beings unburdened by gender constraints. You know who you are. Thanks. This book is not meant to cause offence to the LGBT community for whom...
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History Comics: Ellis Island: Immigration and the American DreamTurn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, take a visit to Ellis Island and learn America's immigration story. Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty...
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Hip-Hop Is HistoryThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid...
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Hieronymus Bosch. the Complete Works. 45th Ed.Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. 500 years on from his death, his works continue...
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific"A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who--somehow--survived."--Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific Here is one of the most...
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Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod**Soon to be an Amazon limited series directed by Academy Award winner Ed Berger from Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey**A serial killer. Two literary legends. One chilling true story.1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars...
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HawaiiPulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii's epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries--until, little...
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in GolfThe twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work--the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as "the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style" (The New York Times)--includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from...
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Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (Loa #389)A deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fascism and authoritarianism Includes two fascinating chapters that were later cut and are available in no other edition In 1951, a monumental book by a relatively unknown...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new...
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Gray's Anatomy: Anatomy Descriptive and SurgicalThis leather-bound version of the original 1858 first edition of Gray's Anatomy is ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine. In 1858, Dr. Henry Gray published the first edition of what has become known as "the doctor's Bible," with assistance...
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest WaterwayA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific...
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old AgeAn "essential" (The New Republic) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until death. As...
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyNow in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful...an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"by The Washington Post (and everywhere else) "Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who...
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Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook: Cookies and Treats from America's Golden EraAlthough most Americans have heard of sugar plums thanks to the famous holiday poem A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore, many have likely never have had the pleasure of tasting one of these luxuries, or even know what they really are...
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad"Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese." -- Peter Cozzens, Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE...
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Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli ConflictAn award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate. "[A] compelling story. . ....
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George Washington and the Creation of the American RepublicWashington's strategic genius extended beyond war, laying the foundation for a powerful American Republic. The twentieth-century publication of Washington's writings, and more recently the digital editions of his papers, have provided George Washington's biographers with increased access to the details of his life. Despite...
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