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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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Lost Gardens of LondonLost Gardens of London pays tribute to the evanescence of London's vast and varied garden legacy. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan explores gardens that range in date from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, and from the capital's humble allotments and gardens behind terraced houses to defunct...
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Long Beach State at 75Author: Barbara Kingsley-WilsonPublisher: Greenleaf Book Group PressPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.69lbsSize: 11.19h x 8.92w x 0.85dISBN: 9798886452228
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Living on MemoriesAuthor: Lynne OakesPublisher: Ewings Publishing LLCPublished: 09/23/2024Pages: 236Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9798894191881This title is not returnable
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Living and Working in Wartime ChinaCovering the years of Japanese invasion during World War II from 1937 to 1945, this essay collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Each of the regimes that ruled a divided China--occupation governments, Chinese Nationalists, and Chinese Communists--demanded and...
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Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of TheologyHow can finite creatures know an infinite God? How does limited knowledge impact what we can say of God?Retrieving and constructing important insight from Scripture and key patristic, medieval, early modern, and modern theologians, Ronni Kurtz presents a rich analysis of the doctrine of...
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Life of St. RadegundRadegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of the Merovingian dynasty. She is also remembered as an early Frankish saint of the Catholic Church. Among other accomplishments, she founded the major Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers and Jesus College of Cambridge...
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Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines, New EditionA classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship--from within the mines of Bolivia Let Me Speak! is the story of a valiant fighter for indigenous and workers' rights in the mines of Bolivia. First published in English in 1978, Monthly Review...
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Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in ChinaLearning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the...
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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of RomeA top historian of Rome narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by a crime wave....
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Lake JocasseeThe creation of Lake Jocassee by Duke Power Company's massive Keowee-Toxaway Project in the late 1960s and early 1970s flooded a quaint mountain valley whose earliest recorded history was in 1539, when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led an expedition through the present-day Jocassee...
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Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab ThoughtHow to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about women, gender, and childrearing emerged as essential...
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Korea-Us-China Trilateral Relations in the XI Jinping Era: Complexity, Conflict, and InterdependenceThis book represents the very first comprehensive work that examines Korea-US-China trilateral relations through a strategic triangular lens. It moves beyond conventional discussions of bilateral ties to provide an in-depth analysis of the complexity, conflict, and economic interdependence characterizing the relationships among these three...
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Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and DeconstructExplore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee's book is the first to delve into Korean feminist artists' impact on the East Asian cultural landscape.This unprecedented visual survey celebrates...
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Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early ScholasticismA radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry. In Knowledge True and Useful, Frank Rexroth shows how,...
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King Kamehameha The Great: Warrior King of the Hawaiian IslandsKing Kamehameha I is widely popular throughout Hawaii and known throughout the rest of the world. He is most known for being the one to finally unite all of the islands of Hawaii into a single kingdom-the Kingdom of Hawaii back in the early...
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Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky: The Search of the Authentic Life and the Problem of Existential EntrapmentThe book brings together the philosophy of S ren Kierkegaard with that of another prominent proto-existentialist thinker, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Asking the question: "What constitutes an authentic Christian life?", the book explores the answer given by both authors, which is that one should rid oneself...
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Kanuni i Lekë DukagjinitLibrashqip sjell versionin e plotë të "Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit". Libri kontroversial një thesar i kulturës dhe traditës shqiptare, një kod i lashtë i sjellë nga periudha e lashtë e mesjetës. Ky kanun ka qenë një rrugëdrejtim i rëndësishëm për shoqërinë shqiptare dhe një...
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JumpseatAuthor: Dianna BennettPublisher: IngramsparkPublished: 10/31/2024Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57dISBN: 9798991402309
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Judea Under Greek and Roman RuleThis volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, through 135 CE, when Hadrian re-founded Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and banished Jews from the city limits...
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Johnstown Basketball: The Cambria County War Memorial Invitational TournamentAmid a series of three destructive floods that pounded little Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in less than a century, Cambria County residents somehow maintained their lofty expectations and big-picture foresight to begin what would become the oldest Christmas high school basketball tournament in the nation, as...
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