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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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Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, & Lies Under Sagebrush SkiesLarry Brown has Gathered the stories of Wyoming's hog ranches, from Mother Featherlegs' place to the Nine Mile Ranch to the Hog Ranch at Fetterman. These colorful sties were brimming with sin, gunplay, gambling, murder, outlaws, and romance. There, a customer might while away...
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The Prophet of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Essenes and the Early Christians, One and the Same Holy People: Their Seven Devout PracticesWho, in fact, were the ancient Essenes? What secret doctrines did they uphold? Why did they keep their practices hidden? How do these writings relate to Jesus and His teachings? This vital book explores the pre-Christian origins of New Testament writings and the little-known...
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Torches of Joy: International AdventuresIn 1960 the twenty-five thousand Dani tribes people hidden away in the remote Toli Valley of Irian Jaya used only stone tools and had no written language. Then, in one generation, they took the always dangerous, sometimes fatal, leap from the Stone Age into...
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Rituals of Failure: What Schools Really TeachThrough candid portraits of life in our schools, Sandro Contenta lays bare the "hidden curriculum": the almost invisible ways in which schools are slowly breaking the spirits of many children and destroying their years of education. Contenta proposes a restructuring of schooling based on...
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I Will Be Meat for My Salish: The Buffalo and the Montana Writers Project Interviews on the Flathead Indian ReservationThe story of the Salish's relationship to the buffalo including their role in protecting the species is preserved in this collection, which includes all extant interviews from the Montana Writers Project conducted on the Flathead Reservation. These firsthand accounts of Salish elders legends, information...
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The Donegal PicturesSeventy-nine duotone photographs of remote Irish-speaking farming and sheepherding communities; Introduction by Ciaran CarsonAuthor: Rachel GiesePublisher: Wake Forest University PressPublished: 12/01/1987Pages: 100Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 11.29h x 8.89w x 0.66dISBN: 9780916390273About the AuthorRachel Giese (now Rachel Brown) was born in New York City in...
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The People Called QuakersA broad portrait of a way of life and a way of thought which is a live option for vital, contemporary Christians. D. Elton Trueblood, author of more than 30 books, depicts the Quaker experiment in radical Christianity. His portrayal of early Quakers and...
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The Journal of George FoxGeorge Fox's record of his life and ministry is a Christian classic. Its pages chroncile not only Fox's spiritual travial when he heard a voice that said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition," but his years of ministry...
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Christmas in Old Santa FeThe special customs and traditions of the Christmas season in Santa Fe, New Mexico are carefully and clearly explained in this book that has become a classic. Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light...
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East End 1888East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack the Ripper and the Matchgirls' strike, when poverty, crime, disease...
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The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 6, English TextMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya....
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The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects"Permanent revolution" calls Leon Trotsky to mind as surely as "relativity" does Albert Einstein. In their originality and scope, these two famous theories have a symmetry. Leon Trotsky was a leading Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was a central leader of the Russian...
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Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust"Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities....
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Plugger: Wade Fishing the Gulf CoastFrom a pioneer in catch-and-release and a legend in saltwater wade-fishing. Rudy Grigar, one of America's most notorious characters of saltwater wade-fishing, lends the inimitable voice of experience to these yester yarns of the coastal waters of Texas and Louisiana. A fisherman's fisherman, Grigar...
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So You Think You Know Gettysburg?: The Stories Behind the Monuments and the Men Who Fought One of America's Most Epic BattlesIf you didn't sleep through U.S. history class, you've heard of Pickett's Charge. If you've seen the movie Gettysburg, you're familiar with Little Round Top. If you've been to the battlefield, you've seen the Wheatfield. But do you know about the ten or so...
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Boys of the Battleship North CarolinaOn July 11, 1942, the USS North Carolina steamed into Pearl Harbor. She was a magnificent ship--the first in a new class of battleships, simultaneously monstrous and fast. She was two-and-a-half-football-fields long and so wide she could barely pass through the Panama Canal on...
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Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the EastFrom the time they established formal ties with Great Britain in 1730, the Cherokees had a rocky relationship with white settlers. They found grounds for dispute over trade practices, territorial control, and the complicated loyalties among the various Indian tribes and European powers. Over...
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St. Vincent Ferrer: Angel of the JudgementCommissioned by Our Lord Himself to preach His Gospel, St. Vincent began at age 50 an apostolate of preaching that would extend to France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and a few other countries as well. Travelling with him were as many as...
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The Autobiography of St. Teresa of AvilaThe Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable life stories ever written. For here, in a scrupulously accurate translation that is beloved by the Carmelites, the great Reformer of Carmel describes her life and the extraordinary workings of grace...
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St. Dominic: Preacher of the Rosary and Founder of the Dominican OrderThe incredible story for children 10 and up of the man who received the Rosary from Our Lady, defeated the Albigensian Heresy, raised the dead, triumphed over the devil, founded the Dominican Order and worked countless miracles. Impr. 156 pgs 19 Illus, PBAuthor: Mary...
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