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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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Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian PropertyExiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponized During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years. Tens of...
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Load in Nine Times: PoemsFor decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, in Buffalo Dance, winner of...
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Lincoln Park ZooThe historic Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, is home to a host of animals...and horror! Find out why this city zoo makes even the strongest shiver. Dare to discover why this wild haunt is on the list of Spooky Sites!Author: Thomas Kingsley TroupePublisher:...
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our TimesThe Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."--Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its...
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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal LettersHere are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston...
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Leabhar Gabhála = the Book of Conquests of Ireland; Volume 1This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Latino USA: A Cartoon HistoryAn irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of...
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Las Alas del ?guila / On Wings of EaglesEl autor n?mero uno en ventas, Ken Follett, cuenta la inspiradora historia real de la crisis de rehenes en Medio Oriente que comenz? en 1978 y de los medios poco convencionales que utiliz? un estadounidense para salvar a sus compatriotas. . . . A...
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Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern IndiaA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in...
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Lakeside ImaginationLakeside Imagination is a collection of short stories with an interesting history. Long before they were written down, the stories were told to the inmates at a jail in a small northern Minnesotan county. The ideas in the stories clearly spoke to these men...
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La Biblia Vulgata Latina, Traducida Al Español Y Anotada ---...Esta es una edición de la Biblia en español, basada en la versión latina de Jerónimo de Estridón, conocida como la Vulgata, y acompañada de notas y comentarios del erudito español Felipe Scío de San Miguel. Esta obra es un compendio magnífico de la...
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Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper With Holistic EducationKinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning. Each chapter describes an Indigenous orientation to holistic education that explores deeply into...
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Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade ReligionsThroughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provided the means by which religions achieve their global scale, and any worthwhile historical account of those religions must reckon with that imperial dimension. In...
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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo LegendIf we do in fact "remember the Alamo," it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to...
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Joan Mitchell: Paintings: 1979-1985Discover Joan Mitchell's powerful and dynamic work--spotlighted in this book as never before "An entry for one of the best shows of 2022. . . . Mitchell, then in her 50s, reaches peak form in gathering brushstrokes that flicker and burn like auras on...
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Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Witness of Third NephiAuthor: Steven Russell McMurrayPublisher: Steven R. McMurrayPublished: 06/27/2024Pages: 526Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.56dISBN: 9781949974140
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J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and IgnoramusesDiscover the Point of View of a Real MountaineerFor far too many decades, the residents of the Appalachian Mountains have faced the ridicule, prejudice, and misunderstanding from those outside the region.With this book, author Frank Kilgore, a lifetime resident of Virginia's coalfield counties and...
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Isaiah's Eagles RisingAuthor: Bernard Thomas NolanPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 07/24/2002Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.44w x 0.69dISBN: 9781401053086This title is not returnable
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Iroquoian Women: The GantowisasIroquoian Women: The Gantowisas provides a thorough, organized look at the social, political, economic, and religious roles of women among the Iroquois, explaining their fit with the larger culture. Gantowisas means more than simply woman - gantowisas is woman acting in her official capacity...
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Irena SendlerDelve into the remarkable and inspiring life of one of history's unsung heroes, Irena Sendler. This compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary journey of a Polish social worker who, during the darkest days of World War II, risked her life to save over 2,500 Jewish...
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