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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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Famous Artist Paper Doll Coloring Book: Kids can Dress Up the Dolls in Costumes of 10 Different Well-Known Artists! Comes with a Biography for Each PaWelcome to this detailed and fun paper dolls book! You will enjoy dressing up the paper dolls in costumes of 10 different famous artists throughout history. This book also includes a short biography of each artist, so kids can learn Art HIstory, while they...
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Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World WarsThis volume analyzes the responses of several European communities in South America to the call for mobilization ordered by their country of origin and the myriad impacts of the world wars on the development of their ethnic and national identities.Author: María Inés TatoPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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Painters' Mixing Manual & Sample Book ..This 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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pepita JimnezThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Reg Pascoe: The Vet They Called God'Don't look now... but God's in the front row.'This was a frequent refrain at both Australian and international veterinary conferences for decades. And there Dr Reg Pascoe would be: watching and listening attentively, eyes glinting with wry humour behind his glasses. His brilliant mind...
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The China Record: An Assessment of the People's RepublicThe China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the...
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New York History, Volume 103, Number 1Since 1919, New York History has been the foremost scholarly journal on the Empire State's past. Now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, New York History's mission is unifying the diverse...
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Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982Artists, writers, musicians, choreographers and filmmakers explore the possibilities of data, digitization and algorithms at the dawn of computer technologyCoded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of...
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This History Of MagicMagic has been confounded too long with the jugglery of mountebanks, the hallucinations of disordered minds and the crimes of certain unusual malefactors. There are otherwise many who would promptly explain Magic as the art of producing effects in the absence of causes; and...
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Birdie - Not Just 'Soul of Anzac': Field Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, 1865-1951Historians have long cited Field Marshal Lord Birdwood as being overdue comprehensive study. His Indian and South African service experiences prepared him for his significant achievements at Gallipoli, commanding the Anzacs, and leading the successful final evacuations. Throughout his life he displayed great diplomatic...
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An Outlaw's DiaryWith the shout of "LONG LIVE THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT!", the Hungarian Soviet Republic, formed on the evening of March 21st, 1919 lasted for only 133 days. The violence and intensity of the Red Terror in Hungary rivaled that of Soviet Russia. The...
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Sherman's Praetorian Guard: Civil War Letters of John McIntyre Lemmon, 72nd Ohio Volunteer InfantryThis collection of Civil War letters from the pen of Captain John M. Lemmon of the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry fills a void in Civil War scholarship, covering the entire service of one of most highly regarded regiments in the Army of the Tennessee....
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Of Plymouth PlantationOf Plymouth Plantation is the story of the first settlers from The Mayflower and how they were able to survive and flourish in a hostile land despite incredible odds. Enduring starvation, plague, internal and external conflicts, natural disasters and countless other calamities, about a...
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Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the UniverseCompensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It offers a diversity of topics and scientific approaches, articulated by up-to-date interdisciplinary dialogue, and reflects on the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies.Author: Myrto VeikouPublisher: BrillPublished: 11/17/2022Pages: 708Binding...
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The History & Material Culture Of The Muscogee Creek In Alabama and GeorgiaIn his current work, The History & Material Culture of the Muscogee Creek in Alabama and Georgia, Lloyd has built on earlier studies of the ceramic art of the Upper Creek people along the Alabama and Tallapoosa rivers and their Lower Creek relatives in...
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Good News: Women in ArchitectureFrom Lina Bo Bardi to Elizabeth Diller: how women have reshaped the disciplineIn the space of a few decades, the perception and culture of what an architect can be has evolved from the stereotype of "one man at the helm" to a far more...
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Vintage Journal Alaska Travel PosterThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Alaska Travel Poster, features an illustrated travel poster pormoting tourism in Alaska. Five people on a ship are enjoying the view of ice formations and ice bergs. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the...
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John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its ReceptionThe twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts written in Greek that has come down to us. It was also one of the most popular historical works of the...
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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American CommuneThe devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult. In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in...
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Aspects of UFOs and Aliens: Reports of similar UFO and alien interactions around the world, and the unofficial and military responsesOver the years, UFO and alien research has been a massive patchwork quilt abalysis by the military, government scientists and departments, volunteer organisations and individual investigators all over the world. Each one of us 'does our bit'. However individually we only have a small...
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