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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Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to MagellanNewbery-Honor winning author, Jean Fritz, brings history to life once again in 10 true tales of 15th-century European explorers True tales of our world's greatest 15th century explorers, from Bartholomew Diaz and Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa,...
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Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?Newbery Honor author Jean Fritz takes us on a historic tour of Christopher Colubus In a simple, short biography of Columbus she has been extraordinarily successful in extracting the essence of the man.--The Horn Book Christopher Columbus thought he knew where he was going....
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The Moral Basis of a Backward SocietyLooking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good, Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty. Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955, Moral Basis of a Backward...
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in AmericaIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946--the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first...
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The Mapmakers: Revised EditionIn his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where...
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Greek and Roman Philosophy After AristotleIn Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle eminent scholar Jason Saunders shows how philosophers from the Hellenistic Age greatly influenced early Christian teachings. A concise selection from the standard philosophical works written after the death of Aristotle to the close of the third century,...
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Falling Felines and Fundamental PhysicsHow do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye-opening history,...
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The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission ImpossibleHailed as "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) and a "monumental achievement" (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible WWII mission. In December of 1943,...
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Heisenberg's WarFull of fascinating characters, deeds of heroic daring . . . [a] powerful book. -- New York Times One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics;...
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Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War IIFrom the national bestselling coauthor of Dragon's Jaw, here is the incredible true story of the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history, World War II's Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. "Superb... the greatest naval air battle of all time finally receives the meticulous and...
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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change UsFrom the director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory--"a stimulating book written by one of the major players in the field--perhaps the major player.... Offers surprisingly deep glimpses into what it is to be human" (The New York Times Book Review). Are we really...
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His TimesFrom the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on...
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Russia Under the Bolshevik RegimeFrom the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution--the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924 "Offers a penetrating analysis of the making...
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American IndependenceFrom New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls. Thomas Paine's words were...
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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last TycoonFascinating...A richly detailed portrait. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a...
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Down Second AvenueEs'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue...
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for MeaningDo all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's...
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On the Court With...Kevin DurantDiscover the amazing achievements of beloved basketball superstar Kevin Durant in this exciting and comprehensive new biography! From his days as the skinny kid on youth teams to his MVP season with the Oklahoma City Thunder to his first NBA Championship with the Golden...
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Practicing History: Selected EssaysCelebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian's craft in these perceptive, essential essays. From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role...
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the WorldAn incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times - "There is more insight here into the Age of...
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