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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 Magyars: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Tribes that Established the Kingdom of Hungary*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Having crossed the Danube, they encamped beside the Danube as far as Budafelh v z. Hearing this, all the Romans living throughout the land of Pannonia, saved their lives by flight. Next day, Prince...
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Greek Mythology: A Fascinating Guide to Understanding the Ancient Greek Religion with Its Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and MortalsA Fascinating Guide to Understanding the Ancient Greek Religion with Its Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and MortalsThe ancient Greeks were explorers in many ways. They traveled to new places, creating colonies in strange lands far from their original homes. They were survivors. They were honorable...
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Jake: An American Original. Volume I. The Life of the Legendary Biker, Bodybuilder, and Hell's AngelGrab life with both hands Volume 1 of the incredible life of Jake Sawyer, prep school sports star, U.S. Army paratrooper, Kentucky rum-runner, a less than model prisoner at San Quentin and Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, and a champion body-builder and fitness guru to the...
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The Texas Rangers: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Law Enforcement Agency That Has Helped Stop Some of America's Most Infamous CrIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Texas Rangers, then keep reading...Before Texas became a state in the United States of America, what would become the first state law enforcement agency would be formed. For about 150 years, this group of...
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Arnie the Farmer Beswick: Mr. B's Passionate Poncho, Mystery Tornado, Tameless Tiger, Star of the Circuit I/II, Super Judge and More Potent PontArnie "the Farmer" Beswick was called "the consummate underdog" by Hot Rod magazine. While there was good reason, there is much more to his unbelievable career. Born a third-generation farmer in the small town of Morrison, Illinois, Arnie Beswick's driving career began not behind...
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Rubens: Picturing AntiquityThe first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens...
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that...
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From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the women who used this...
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Women in Buddhist TraditionsA new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally....
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The Book of CharlatansUncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt....
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A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in EuropeReveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784,...
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Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient GreeceGreek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a...
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Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer'sAlzheimer's disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world's most common causes of death. Alzheimer's lingers for years, with patients' outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and...
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Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of EugenicsImmigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant." Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton's groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability,...
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Textile Terms: A GlossaryThe glossary explores and presents seventy essential and critical terms that define the textile medium as a specific form, material, technique and metaphor from antiquity to the present. It collects contributions of inter- national specialists in the field. Each entry discusses one illustrated object...
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Saqsaywaman Mystery SolvedIn his book; Saqsaywaman Mystery Solved, the author takes you on a journey into the centuries old mystery of Saqsaywaman. You will be taken on a step by step photographic documentary through the surprising discovery of how the stones were made to fit so...
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Billy the Kid's Grave - A History of the Wild West's Most Famous Death Marker"Quien es?"The answer to this incautious question - "Who is it?" - was a bullet to the heart.That bullet -- fired by Lincoln County Sheriff Patrick F. Garrett from a .40-44 caliber single action Colt pistol -- ended the life of Billy the Kid,...
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The Kabbalah: The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews in the Kabbalist Books; the Sefer Yetzirah and the ZoharThe Kabbalah's history and esoteric qualities are demystified and explained by Adolph Franck, a philosopher and scholar of ancient Jewish texts.With origins dating back thousands of years, the Kabbalistic texts are a cornerstone of Judaist tradition. They explain the relationship between God, humanity, the...
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Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan's Coast GuardRed Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation's maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art surface effect ships,...
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OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman's Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese ArmyOSS Operation Black Mail is the story of a remarkable woman who fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. Elizabeth Betty P. McIntosh spent eighteen months serving in the Office of Strategic Services in what has been called the forgotten...
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