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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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Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and ThinkingAuthor: Sarah BassettPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/08/2024Pages: 350Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9781009466325
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American OpportunityHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity? We take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case. Though for most of world history, your prospects...
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Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to IraqFrom the author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young peopleZlata Filipovic's diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children...
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Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in EnglandA dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War - the last fully armored knights in England. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from...
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Stealing the Last Arrow: The Department of Interior Indian Probate Proceedings (Softcover)The American Indian Probate Act was enacted in 2004 and became effective in 2006. The Act applies to all individually owned trust lands, unless a tribe has its own probate code. State laws no longer apply. Its purposes include preserving the trust status of...
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd TimesA "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning--and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety These days everyone feels on edge, panicked by climate change, political polarization, and...
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Staging Buenos Aires: Theater, Society, and Politics in Argentina, 1860-1920Staging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how nonelites experienced and shaped a city undergoing dramatic transformations. Commercial theater constituted the core of the city's public sphere, one in which middle-class playwrights and audiences assumed the leading role....
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Spying for Hitler: Nazis Who Infiltrated AmericaWhen Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave little thought to the world on the other side of the Atlantic other than to nurture a constant nagging resentment over President Wilson's...
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Spectral Borders: History, neighbourliness and discord on the Polish-Belarusian frontierBased on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, the author investigates the...
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Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and NevadaSpeaking Through the Aspens analyzes the content of thousands of arboglyphs in the mountains of Nevada and California by topic--language, politics, the Basque homeland, the sheepherd's life, sex, and pictorial themes. In addition, author Mallea-Olaetxe has examined such sheepherder artifacts as sheep camps and...
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Southern Irish Protestants: Histories, Lives and LiteratureIan D'Alton has, for many decades, been regarded as one of the foremost voices detailing and capturing the Protestant experience in the Republic of Ireland. This work is a collection of his finest writing, including previously unpublished pieces.Author: Ian D'AltonPublisher: Wordwell BooksPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 320Binding...
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Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862A companion volume to Taken at the Flood, this book identifies areas of research and in-depth source materials for studies of the Maryland campaign.Author: Joseph L. HarshPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 06/26/2000Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.73dISBN: 9780873386418About the AuthorThe...
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Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a Dog and His Master on Mount Le ConteIn 1925, Paul Adams was appointed custodian of Mount Le Conte, the third-highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His job was to welcome tourists, give guided tours, and establish a camp that would become known as LeConte Lodge, which still stands...
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Smallwood: The Unlikely RevolutionaryThe extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction--literally: Wayne Johnston's acclaimed novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, draws heavily on this definitive biography. And no wonder Set against a colorful background in stirring times it has, as its hero, a character...
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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)In the 1960s and '70s, collaborations between artists and engineers led to groundbreaking innovations in multisensory performance art that continue to resonate today. In 1966, Billy Kl?ver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert...
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Selections from the HusiaAuthor: Maulana KarengaPublisher: Univ of Sankore Pr;Published: 01/01/1989Pages: 125Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.55dISBN: 9780943412061
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Seasons in the Son: 52 Game Changers in Sports Who Live and Compete in the Shadow of the CrossMaybe you have witnessed the practice of some athletes pointing to the heavens after hitting a home run or scoring a touchdown. Perhaps you have caught some of today's biggest sports stars delivering declarations of faith during postgame interviews with tributes like, "Glory to...
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Science and Religion: A Very Short IntroductionThe debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more...
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Sandoz Studies, Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of the Little BighornMari Sandoz's The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a towering Custer myth had come to dominate the national psyche as a tale that confirmed national exceptionalism and continental destiny. Sandoz...
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Sacred Thought: Mi'kmaq Meditations for Our TimesIn this philosophical exploration, Mi'kmaq Elder George Paul shares his traditional knowledge with those on a quest to better understand themselves and the world around them. Practiced and maintained by North American Indigenous tribes since time immemorial, this search for spirituality is informed by...
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