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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Easter: Its Story and MeaningTHE FORGOTTEN PAGAN ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY'S MOST EMBLEMATIC CELEBRATION "Easter -- by whatever name it may be known -- is a theme common to almost every religion and every people." -- Alan Watts Along with Christmas, Easter Sunday is one of the two most...
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Flying Rabbits and Blue Traffic Lights: Japanese You Didn't Know You Wanted to KnowEnter a world of flying rabbits, blue traffic lights, spelling reforms, ancient alphabet songs, viking buffets, worthless theatre tickets, dragons emerging from the clouds, carefully-folded underpants, typhoons on pedestals, tetris blocks, men in the moon, huckster shrikes, and persimmon chips.Flying Rabbits and Blue Traffic...
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Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in ScienceA revealing and entertaining guide through some of the biggest misconceptions in science that many of us still believe. You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice. But this is just...
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A Gentleman's Guide to Beard and Moustache ManagementDo you know how to trim your whiskers properly? With beards and moustaches more popular than ever, this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question. And if a trim is not required, then it will show you how to wax, polish...
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The Abased Christ: A New Reading of Kierkegaard's 'Practice in Christianity'The Abased Christ is the first monograph to be devoted exclusively to S ren Kierkegaard's Christological masterpiece, Practice in Christianity. Alongside an argument for a new translation of the work's title, it offers detailed textual commentary on a series of themes in Practice in...
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Les moments décisifs de l'Histoire de France: Suivi de Comment s'est faite la Restauration de 1814*** Cet ouvrage bénéficie d'une mise en page destinée à rendre agréable la lecture ***Voici le dernier ouvrage du regretté Jacques Bainville; il l'a écrit un mois avant sa mort. Dans ces huit chapitres, de la Gaule romaine à la scission de 1830, Bainville...
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Thinking about HistoryWhat distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it....
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The Time of the Stick and the Carrot: Story of a Year, October 1942 to September 1943First published in 1944, this indispensable historical work covers the dramatic year from October 1942 to September 1943-a period which produced a series of military and political crises in Italy which led to the overthrow of Benito Mussolini and the fall of Fascism.Written by...
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Raoul 'Sonny' Balcaen: My Exciting True-Life Story in Motor Racing from Top-Fuel Drag-Racing Pioneer to Jim Hall, Reventlow Scarab, Carroll SRaoul 'Sonny' Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicentre of American motor racing, nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today. As a teenager, he successfully competed with his home-built Top...
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900 Letters: Marriage, Movies, and the MarianasThere were over six million marriages in the United States during World War II, 1.7 million in 1944 alone. Six million love stories, each unique, each special, all of them taking place against a backdrop of terrible world conflict. Because of the war, many...
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Taking Arizona: A brief look at Army Forts, Camps, and Key Players in early ArizonaThe Arizona Territory was created in 1863 from the Western half of what was known as the New Mexico Territory. Arizona remained a territory until 1912 when it became America's 48th state.Until the late 1600s, when the Spanish began to arrive, Arizona's Indians had...
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The School and Society"We are apt to look at the school from an individualistic standpoint, as something between teacher and pupil, or between teacher and parent. That which interests us most is naturally the progress made by the individual child of our acquaintance, his normal physical development,...
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Physiological Disorders in Motorbike Riders and Vehicle ParametersThe musculoskeletal system is an organ system that enables an organism to move, support and maintain stability during movements. It is made up of skeleton, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and joints. Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones andkeep the bones in place. To...
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The Piklers: A Family Odyssey on Three ContinentsThis book has its origins in a shoebox full of family names and scribbled notes that George M. Pikler has kept since childhood when he developed a life-long fascination with the history of his family. George belongs to the sixth out of eight known...
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A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their UniversityShortly before David Lowry Swain's thirty-second birthday, the North Carolina General Assembly elected him the state's twenty-sixth governor. He remains its youngest. In the context of his time he was an activist executive, prodding the state to develop its infrastructure, thereby promoting economic development,...
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Haiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the PaceHaiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the Pace brilliantly presents Haiti's entire socio-political and economic history with poignant analysis into a mere eight chapters.From the relatively peaceful and stable pre-colonial period, to the illustrious independence victory,...
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The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms, SymbolsPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.Author: Liudmila V. Lbova, Pavel V. VolkovPublisher: Academica PressPublished: 12/28/2022Pages:...
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New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites: Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artworkHello and welcome to this marvelous collection of detailed colorful illustrations, along with useful facts of New York City's famous sites. You will feel like you are going on a tour of New York City and its surroundings.Here you will find artistic pictures and...
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Common Sense for the 21st Century: A Call to Reinvest in American DemocracyThe state of affairs for America in 1776 was a divided public regarding how to move forward with respect to Great Britain. Many colonists wanted to stay loyal to King George and work things out, even though they had experienced many insults to their...
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The Sumerian Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of Sumer and the Ancient SumeriansHow much do you know about the "cradle of civilization?" Come explore the legacy of the brilliant ancient Mesopotamians who transformed the world. Ancient Mesopotamia's legacy was truly revolutionary. Childlike pictures scratched into wet clay evolved into the first written language. The Mesopotamians wrote...
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