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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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Glossing Practice: Comparative PerspectivesThis volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices from traditions in both the West and East Asia, with a focus on Japan. It also touches on the relation between...
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Ghosts and Legends of Florida PiratesAuthor Heather Leigh guides readers on a swashbuckling journey into the ghostly remnants of Florida pirates. From the legendary Blackbeard to the infamous Captain Kidd, the tales of Florida pirates have captivated readers for generations--hidden treasure, daring escapes, larger-than-life personalities. But, of course, the...
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Get the Hell Out of Here: A Challenge to the Eternal Conscious Torment of Christian DogmaReevaluating Christian Doctrine: Unveiling Truths about Hell, its Misinterpretations & the Church's Manipulation. A Soothing Read for the Troubled Faithful.If you have ever felt uneasy about the traditional concept of Hell as propagated by Christian dogma throughout history, then this thought-provoking book is for...
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Gesta Romanorum / The Deeds of the Romans: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World - A Journey Through Medieval Legends and MoralsDiscover the Timeless Wonders of the 'Gesta Romanorum'Step into a world where history, myth, and morality blend seamlessly in the 'Gesta Romanorum' - a medieval treasure trove akin to the Arabian Nights and the Morte d'Arthur. This captivating anthology, once a cornerstone of entertainment...
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Germany's Panzer Arm in World War IIComplete analysis of the German panzer arm New perspectives on the rise and decline of the Third Reich's war machine No twentieth-century military organization has been as widely studied as the German Army in World War II. Nevertheless, there are almost no truly integrated...
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Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary ScienceAstronomer Gerard P. Kuiper ignored the traditional boundaries of his subject. Using telescopes and the laboratory, he made the solar system a familiar, intriguing place. "It is not astronomy," complained his colleagues, and they were right. Kuiper had created a new discipline we now...
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Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton ConwayA multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937-2020) possessed a rock star's charisma, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor. Conway found fame as a barefoot professor at Cambridge, where he...
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Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An InterventionThe works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualities of artworks depicting rape, murder, and other violence but often fail to address the violent content and context. Gender Violence, Art, and the...
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Frozen in Time: What Ice Cores Can Tell Us about Climate ChangeAuthor: Carmella Van VleetPublisher: Holiday HousePublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsISBN: 9780823460168Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorCarmella Van Vleet is a former elementary school teacher and the author of numerous books for children, including To the Stars!, which was co-authored by astronaut Kathy Sullivan and...
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From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth CenturyDrawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the reasons...
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From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in ChinaHow the world's largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to development How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule of law, contract enforcement, and loan access. In From Click to...
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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to ExileFreedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people...
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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to ExileFreedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people...
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France 1900. a Portrait in ColorThe turn of the 20th century was a golden era in France. It was an age of peace, prosperity, and progress after a series of bruising wars and turmoil within the French Republic, culminating in the Franco-Prussian War, which had ended in 1871. From...
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Flashback to 1950 - A Time Traveler's Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1950 a very special year. Perfect birthd- - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1950 ─ a very special year. Was this the year you were born? Was this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR...
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Fire and Fury#1 New York Times Bestseller With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Since Donald Trump was...
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Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvelous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON, author, Slow Horses 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' PETINA GAPPAH, author, Out of Darkness, Shining Light Since the discovery of the wreck of...
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Federalist Papers Renewed: Hamilton's Blueprint for Restoring the American DreamStep into the realm of political enlightenment as envisioned what Alexander Hamilton would say about the United States today. The ghost of Hamilton breathes new life into the hallowed pages of the Federalist Papers. In "Federalist Papers Renewed," witness a stirring revival of Hamilton's...
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Fatal Intentions: True Canadian Crime StoriesUsing contemporary accounts, Barbara Smith vividly recreates a number of murder cases from 1920s Nova Scotia to 1980s British Columbia.Author: Barbara SmithPublisher: Dundurn PressPublished: 07/26/1996Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36dISBN: 9780888821676About the AuthorBarbara Smith writes full-time and has been published...
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Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All ThatDecades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs...
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