History
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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Commentaries on Equity JurisprudenceThis 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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Come Hell or High Water: Life Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Facing Life's Greatest Challenges, No Matter What"The "Cajun Rambeaux" shows true leadership grit in business and in life. Marvin LeBlanc has put together a compelling collection of stories, anecdotes, lessons learned, and inspiring guidelines for overcoming adversity in both business and in life.Not only is Marvin the head of a...
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Combat Experience: Military lessons from the war in UkraineWAR is back. The intensity of the war in Ukraine has shocked the West. It has brought back an image of war that many thought would never happen again in the European theater. Battle groups of tanks in mass attacks. Airborne assaults against fortified...
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Combat at night: Assault and defence in the hours of darkness. Techniques - Tools - WeaponsTopics include: - Human Factors - Training for Night Combat - Equipment for Night Combat - Conducting a Firefight at Night - Combat Methods & Tactics The night belongs to us. The night always has always had something eerie about it. But darkness can also...
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Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American PowerAn insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar--and spy--who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson's life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and...
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Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian FormationClement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account of Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus as a programme in the formation of the judgement of taste, situating it in critical dialogue with modern approaches to the judgement...
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Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi SettembriniCapra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author, but actually written by...
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Children's Illustrated Atlas CollectionSet sail across oceans and explore the globe with this set of three beautifully illustrated atlas guides. Discover the world map-by-map with this exciting world atlas collection for children, suitable for inquisitive explorers and intrepid globe-trotters. Children aged 5-9 will enjoy learning about the...
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Chicago's Fashion History: 1865-1945From the ashes of the Chicago Fire of 1871 came the birth of the city s fashion scene as entrepreneurs built new storefronts virtually overnight. Aided by the Windy City s incredible network of railroads, these fledgling enterprises in turn created millionaires who wanted...
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Cedar LakeCedar Lake has been home to Indians, pioneers, industrialists, hotelkeepers, and more. At the center of town is a 787-acre body of water also called Cedar Lake. In 1882, the Monon Railroad laid tracks along the western lakeshore. In winter, the Armour brothers, John...
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Cecily Brown: Themes and VariationsSurveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown's career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in...
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CarthageThis book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and travellers in the early modern world. For almost 1,600 years the ancient city sat on the north coast of Africa, dominating the...
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Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of...
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Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli AgricultureFor decades, the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hiring outside labor. But beginning in the late 1980s, the region's agrarian economy was rapidly transformed by the removal of state protections, a shift to...
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Canadian Warplanes IIThis book is meant to honour and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force and its heritage and to engage in the preservation of Canada's aviation history. Canadian Warplanes II covers the military aircraft flown by the RCAF and Canadian Forces...
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Calvin and the CalvinistsChallenges the thesis that later Calvinism departed from the doctrines of John Calvin.Author: Paul HelmPublisher: Banner of TruthPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 96Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.83h x 5.67w x 0.51dISBN: 9780851517506This title is only available via back order
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But I Live: Three Stories from Child Survivors of the HolocaustShortlisted - 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based WorkAn intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust.David Schaffer and...
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Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost SucceededMost fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to "fix" the 1919 World Series--the Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic works of sports history such as Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out, referred to in literary classics like W. P....
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Bronson Alcott's FruitlandsIn June of 1843, Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, both reformers involved in the Transcendentalist movement, founded Fruitlands in an attempt to strengthen their spirituality through self-reliant, simple living. Joinmed by their families and about a dozen other individuals, the Con-Sociate family (as they...
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Breuer'The most complete monograph on the pioneering modernist.' - Fast Company This acclaimed book is the most comprehensive published on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed in Europe and the United...
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