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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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The Westcott Story: Volume I-1588-1940, The Enduring Spirit of an American Family Spanning 400 YearsThis sweeping narrative details the history and genealogy of the Westcott family in America spanning 400 years and 14 generations. From immigration to colonization, from armed conflict to industrialization and artistic expression, the enthralling stories embody the spirit and value of cultural icons in...
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The Westcott Story: Volume II-1889-2024, The Enduring Spirit of an American Family Spanning 400 YearsThis sweeping narrative details the history and genealogy of the Westcott family in America spanning 400 years and 14 generations. From immigration to colonization, from armed conflict to industrialization and artistic expression, the enthralling stories embody the spirit and value of cultural icons in...
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My Big Red Machine: The Tales, Drama, And Revelations Of A Fan Turned Journalist Covering Baseball's Greatest Team: The Tales, Drama, And RevelationsThis is the 50th anniversary for the first of the back-to-back World Series titles for Major League Baseball's storied Big Red Machine, and out of all the books written about those Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1970s, this is the most unique. It is...
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909The true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the timeless fight for equality and justice should not be...
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Machines of Loving GraceAs robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health--Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help us,...
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space RaceNow in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do...
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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic ScientistsAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.Author: Robert JungkPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 10/21/1970Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.29w x 0.88dISBN: 9780156141505
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Reading Bible with Founding Fathers CNo book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible?...
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In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and ImperialismIn the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a "lost tribe," the Lacandón were thought to...
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The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of GreatnessThis definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw examines the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape--based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others. Now in paperback...
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the WestA "sweeping popular account" (The Seattle Times) of how Athens and Sparta withstood an assault from the Persian Empire in the cradle of Western civilization, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History"Excellent. . . ....
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the WorldFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" --The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the...
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Brazil: A BiographyA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place...
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an EpidemicWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard...
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Book-To-Table ClassicPuffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading ExperienceA deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Martha Stewart! Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a...
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Sears House Designs of the ThirtiesProudly promoting itself as "the largest home building organization in the world," Sears, Roebuck and Company advertised in 1932 products in a handsome catalog that also displayed a full-size replica of Mount Vernon, created from Sears materials for a Paris exposition in 1932.At the...
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The Nazis Next DoorRead the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this "captivating book rooted in first-rate research" (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time,...
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Meanwhile Back on Earth . . .: Finding Our Place Through Time and SpaceA spectacular new picture book from the creator of international bestsellers Here We Are and What We'll Build that will give readers perspective on our place in space. A father takes his two children on a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure into space and invites them...
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February HouseFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a...
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated EditionThis book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
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