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Aleister Crowley: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Cult Leader and Novelist*Includes pictures*Includes quotes*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like...
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The Bronze Age in Europe: The History and Legacy of Civilizations Across Europe from 3200-600 Bce*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingWhile the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history's most important phases, it's been hard for historians to precisely date. The idea of the Bronze Age comes from a three-age system developed in the...
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The Bronze Age in Europe: The History and Legacy of Civilizations Across Europe from 3200-600 Bce*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingWhile the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history's most important phases, it's been hard for historians to precisely date. The idea of the Bronze Age comes from a three-age system developed in the...
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Aleister Crowley: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Cult Leader and Novelist*Includes pictures*Includes quotes*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like...
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Suleiman, O Magnífico: A Vida E O Legado Do Sultão Mais Famoso Do Império OtomanoEm termos de geopol tica, talvez o evento mais importante da Idade M dia tenha sido o cerco otomano de Constantinopla em 1453.A cidade tinha sido uma capital imperial desde o s culo 4, quando Constantino, o Grande, mudou o centro de poder do...
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The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingDeep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south...
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The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingDeep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south...
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Hathor: The History of the Ancient Egyptian Sky Goddess and Symbolic Mother of the Pharaohs*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingAfrica may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later....
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Bugs Moran: The Notorious Life and Legacy of the Chicago Gangster Who Became Al Capone's Biggest Rival*Includes picturesIncludes a bibliography for further reading "I hope, when my time comes, that I die decently in bed. I don't want to be murdered beside the garbage cans in some Chicago alley." - Bugs MoranSprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club....
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Jackie Robinson: The Life and Legacy of the Star Who Broke Major League Baseball's Color Barrier*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." - Jackie RobinsonIn his introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader, sports historian Jules Tygiel...
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The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThere is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, "a most brutish and...
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The Union Pacific: The History of America's Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United...
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The Union Pacific: The History of America's Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United...
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Osman I: The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire's First Sultan*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIn terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as...
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Osman I: The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire's First Sultan*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIn terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as...
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Marshal Tito and Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Lives and Legacies of the Eastern Bloc's Most Notorious Non-Soviet Leaders*Includes pictures*Includes quotes*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe World War II era produced many leaders of titanic determination, men whose strengths and weaknesses left an extraordinary imprint on historical affairs. The struggle between massively divergent ideologies, exacerbated by huge social changes...
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Israel's Most Legendary Operations: The History and Legacy of the Capture of Adolf Eichmann, Operation Wrath of God, and Operation Entebbe*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingHistorians once portrayed Eichmann mostly as a colorless, unimaginative bureaucrat who carried out the Holocaust simply because he lacked the imagination to reject the crime. Essentially "banal," this version of Eichmann turned him into a...
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The Punjab: The History of the Punjabis and the Contested Region on the Border Between India and Pakistan*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBritish India ultimately covered some 54 percent of the landmass and 77 percent of the population. By the time the British began to contemplate a withdrawal from India, 565 princely states were officially...
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Yugoslavia: The History of the Eastern European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingYugoslavia was arguably one of the most unusual geopolitical creations of the 20th century. The Yugoslav state had never existed in any historical sense, and the ties that bound together its constituent peoples were tenuous...
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The Boy Scouts: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Popular Youth Organization*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The purposes of the corporation are to promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to...
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