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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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Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian FolkloreThe persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century-following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set...
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Shamans and Robots: On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial ConsciousnessA profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of...
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Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical OverviewExploring the history and politics of a powerful and long-lasting idea: the creation and maintenance of European worlds outside of Europe. This textbook provides a broad overview of settler colonialism in the modern era. The author outlines how the founding of new societies was...
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Seeing the InsaneSeeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed. Covering the Middle Ages through the end of...
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Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?: Christianity and Education in Norway, Sweden, and the NetherlandsThe twentieth-century process of secularization does not mean that institutional church and Christian ideas were irrelevant for twentieth-century societal projects - such as the introduction of democracy, the improvement of school and education, the framing of national identities - or in the establishment of...
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Secret Squid Storms the Castle: A Search-And-Find Adventure BookSecret Squid Storms the Castle, is the second book in our series of incredibly awesome, fun-packed search-and-find books. Secret squid uses a clever choice of outfits, depending on which castle he is storming, making him difficult to spot. Join Secret Squid as he storms...
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Second Arakan 1943-44: Shattering the Myth of Japanese Invincibility in BurmaA detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms. The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in...
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Sea and Sardinia (Esprios Classics)Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, a. k. a. Queen Bee, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. They...
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Scripting the Son: Scriptural Exegesis and the Making of Early ChristologyIn Scripting the Son, Kyle R. Hughes analyzes how dialogical texts in the Old Testament presented early Christian exegetes with riddles that were best solved through a person-centered reading strategy known as prosopological exegesis. From the method's roots in the pages of the New...
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Sankofa, Sankofa"Sankofa, Sankofa" is a heartwarming children's picture book written by Letta Baker Mason that introduces young readers to the profound concept of Sankofa, a word from the Akan tribe in Ghana that translates to "go back and fetch what you have lost." This principle...
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Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil RightsThe inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal century Roses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the...
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Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil RightsThe inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal century Roses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the...
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RichlandThe Columbia Basin was dusted only with sagebrush and bunchgrass before settlers harnessed the power of the mighty Columbia River. With irrigation came the small town of Richland, and its sister towns of White Bluffs and Hanford. On the advent of U.S. involvement in...
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Revisionist Writings I - 1974-1983Revisionism is a matter of method, not ideology.It advocates, for all research, a return to the starting point, examination followed by re-examination, re-reading and re-writing, evaluation followed by re-evaluation, reorientation, revision, recasting; it is, in spirit, the opposite of ideology. It does not deny,...
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Revising Pentecostal HistoryModern Pentecostalism in America began around the turn of the twentieth century, and most historians of this history have drawn from the available English-language sources. Very few historians of American Pentecostalism knew of source materials in the Scandinavian languages of Norwegian and Swedish. This...
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Report from #24: The Thrilling Tale of Norway's Most Decorated World War II HeroWhen Hitler's invasion shattered Norway's peace of one hundred years, Gunnar Sonsteby, a timid youth, was destined to become the legendary "No. 24," whose exploits earned the highest honors Norway could bestow when it was restored after World War II. REPORT FROM #24 is...
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Remember Us to Life: A Graphic MemoirWINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE - Available for the first time in English: a moving and masterful graphic memoir exploring one woman's search for identity as she slowly uncovers the truth of how her Jewish relatives "disappeared" during World War II. Told...
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Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public ProtestThis account of the "laboratory of radical democracy" in the months before East Germany's absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany's reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of...
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Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew about Amazing Women!Remarkable women have been at the forefront of history. They've changed the world and are leading the way to our future. But how much do you really know about the remarkable women who've shaped our world? We all know that. . . Frida Kahlo...
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Religious Buildings Made in Byzantium: Old Monuments, New Interpretations?Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces. This illuminating exploration reaches beyond the traditional focus on churches solely as buildings, unveiling the complex tapestry...
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