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Reza ShahThere are broadly two leading schools of thoughts on Reza Shah in Iran. The first belongs to the period before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, while the second has compiled since the revolution. The first which was propagated mainly by the state and contained...
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Rethinking Japanese History: Volume 74In this fascinating journey across centuries, Amino Yoshihiko, the premier historian of medieval Japan, invites us to rethink everything we thought we knew about Japanese history. From reconsidering the roles of outcastes and outlaws, to the provenance of "Japan (Nihon)," to the very meaning...
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Resisting Russia: Insights Into Ukraine's Civilian-Based Actions During the First Four Months of the War in 2022The authors examine Ukrainian civilians' contributions to support Ukraine's defense against Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Civilian-based resistance is integral to Ukraine's territorial defense efforts and has potential value in helping ensure victory by regaining territorial integrity and maintaining political sovereignty. The war in...
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Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth CenturyResistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected or suppressed by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries. Formidably erudite without...
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Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon HistoryConflict between matters of faith and historical truth has been a conundrum at the heart of doing and telling the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). Some of the best essays on that topic...
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Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler - Revised EditionFor years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start, choosing to stay in...
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Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights EraPure Fire is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations, Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for many African...
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Prophets and KingsBeginning with the glory days of Israel, "Prophets and Kings" recounts the stories of great men and women of the Bible who lived between King Solomon's reign and the First Advent of Christ. The stories of Elijah, Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hezekiah, the captivity of...
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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of RoyaltyAlexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion.When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the...
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Portland Renaissance: When Creativity Redefined a CityAuthor: Barry LockePublisher: Alden Corner PublishingPublished: 11/15/2023Pages: 292Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9798988938507
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Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945: Beyond the limits of solidarityThe following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that...
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Palaces of Reason: The Royal Residences of Bourbon NaplesPalaces of Reason traces the fascinating history of three royal residences built outside of Naples in the eighteenth century at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta. Commissioned by King Charles of Bourbon and Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony, who reigned over the Kingdom of the Two...
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Out of the Shadows: A Memoir, Survival in Nazi-Occupied France and Making a Life in AmericaAuthor: Michel JeruchimPublisher: Tree of Life BooksPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 268Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dISBN: 9798986618869
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Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century DonegalHugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland's Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the...
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One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the RipperBringing a completely new analytical approach to the identity of the most notorious murderer in history, Sarah Bax Horton presents compelling evidence and names the real Jack the Ripper This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling...
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Old Believers in Modern RussiaThe schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church in 1667 alienated thousands of devout men and women. These traditional worshippers, who came to be known as the Old Believers, practiced their faith as outsiders for more than two centuries. Denied the Russian Orthodox Church's...
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Obsession: A Chess Biography of Vsevolod RauzerVsevolod Rauzer, born in Kiev in 1908, was one of the world's leading chess opening theoreticians and thinkers in the 1930s. As a player, he was an uncompromising attacker, trying to avoid draws as well as to prove that 1.e4 wins by force. According...
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Nikolai Bukharin: Selected WorksNikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian Marxist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. He was a member of the Politburo (1924-1929) and Central Committee (1917-1937), general secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern, 1926-1929), and the editor in chief of Pravda (1918-1929),...
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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His EmpireNapoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man who, from modest beginnings on the small island of Corsica, became Emperor of France and its vast empire. It examines the battles that made him a...
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier PoetsWith Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and...
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