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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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World Series '64: The Cardinals, the Yankees and the End of a DynastyIn 1964, the New York Yankees were the undisputed champions of Major League Baseball. This book presents, in all its context, the story of the upstart St. Louis Cardinals, improbable champions of the National League, taking the Bronx Bombers to game seven in a...
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Woodwind InstrumentsIt's time to play . . . in the band! Some woodwind instruments make deep, loud sounds and others ring out high-pitched melodies. Which instrument is your favorite. Learn how woodwind instruments make sound, explore the history of instruments, then learn about the different...
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Willibrord Between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739): Beyond MissionThe century between c. 650 and 750 was one of major religious, social and political transformations in northwest Europe. In the Frankish kingdom, clerics from Ireland and Britain played an important role in these processes. One of the most prominent figures to emerge from...
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Who Owns the Land?: An In-Depth Look at the Truth Behind the Middle East ConflictWho Owns the Land? That's the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. The conversations can be heated and fraught with tension. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Who is at fault? Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors?...
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White Lake: A Historical Tour of the Nation's Safest BeachWhite Lake: A Historical Tour of the Nation's Safest Beach is a stroll through the history of a small lake community in southeastern North Carolina. Filled with vintage photographs, excerpts from archived articles, and personal recollections from the local residents and visitors who lived...
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When the Harps Went Still: The Tragic Decline of Catholic Sacred MusicIn a world filled with disharmony, the topic of sacred music may seem less than relevant. But the need to restore authentic worship is more crucial than ever. We've all experienced it. As we prepare to enter into the silence of the sacred liturgy,...
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When Hope is DeferredHow does one hold on to hope when everything in your personal life and the world around you turns to ashes? This was the plight of Zachariah and Elisheva. During the tempestuous reign of King Herod the Great, upheaval was common. There was war,...
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WestwoodDon Maximo Alanes was awarded a land grant from the king of Spain in 1843 known as El Rancho San Jose de Buenos Aires, stretching east-west from what is now Sawtelle Boulevard to Beverly Hills, and from Sunset to Pico Boulevards. Preserved into the...
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Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume IWESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY, Eleventh Edition, offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. Easy to read and updated with recent scholarship, the Eleventh Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines, full-color art essays, and primary source boxes in each...
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We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican ArtGroundbreaking exploration of ancient techniques and cosmologies of color in MesoamericaAncient Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility. As they used color to adorn buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, sculptures, textiles, wall murals, mosaics and other items, they quite literally made the world. The...
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Water in World HistoryThis book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the...
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Walk With Me, My Son: You and I Have Some Stories to TellIn 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects. So begins Richard Asmet Awid's historical family biography on the Lebanese...
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Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood ExperienceThey call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Italian, Jewish, and African American communities. Though...
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Völsunga Saga: The Story of The Volsungs [and] Niblungs, With Certain Songs From The Elder Edda;This classic translation of the Icelandic Volsung saga and other Norse poems and ballads features the legendary figures of Sigurd, Brynhild, and Attila. Morris's vivid prose captures the epic grandeur of these timeless tales of gods and heroes, love and betrayal, and the struggle...
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Vital Organs...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It is through this most intimate dissection that the past is brought so vividly to life - The Telegraph It's...
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Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar Germany thinking or speaking...
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Vietnam ZipposWe are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful --from an engraving on a Vietnam-era Zippo lighter In 1965, journalist Morley Safer followed the United States Marines on a search and destroy mission into Cam Ne. When the Marines...
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Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the 'successor states' of...
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona LisaOn August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. The sensational disappearing act captured the world's imagination. Crowds stood...
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Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys Toward French and American SelfhoodTraveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Delving into the experiences of renowned figures like...
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