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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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U-2 'Dragon Lady' Units 1955-90An illustrated account of the early service of the Lockheed U-2, one of the most important and longest-serving intelligence gathering platforms fielded by the US air force. The U-2 is one of the most recognizable aircraft of the Cold War; nicknamed the 'Dragon Lady'...
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Tácticas de combate: Un manual ilustradoEl libro m?s popular sobre t?cticas de infanter?a. M?s de 10.000 libros vendidos!Las t?cticas de combate son el arte de utilizar escuadras y pelotones de soldados en el combate. Estas t?cticas priorizan moverse detr?s de l?neas enemigas dejando pocas o ninguna huella mientras se...
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Turning Points: Forgotten Conflicts That Molded AmericaThis book, the third in a series on forgotten battles, challenges some of the most sacred myths taught in American schools. One is the concept that the US Constitution was conceived by idealists for the public good. New research, however, shows that most of...
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Trees and Other PoemsCONTENTS To My Mother TREES AND OTHER POEMS The Twelve-Forty-Five Pennies Trees Stars Old Poets .Author: Joyce KilmerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/09/2017Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11dISBN: 9781976246043This title is not returnable
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Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals...
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Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite StoriesFifty-four rabbis from all branches of Judaism tell their favorite stories.Author: Katz BeckerPublisher: Behrman House PublishingPublished: 07/16/2007Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9781681151700
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The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." --Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW--its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission--told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary...
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The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear ProgramTim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly--he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor...
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The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch MastersArriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting--casually at first, and then more and more obsessively--the country's great museums. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt--who harbored a startling darkness--and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was...
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full BiographyA full description of this book will be provided by the publisher when the publication date nears.Author: John Swanson JacobsPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 05/21/2024Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9780226832807About the AuthorA full author bio will be provided by...
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The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising InterviewsHow is an oral historian to react when the unexpected emerges, whether in field research or interview analysis? Answers tend to be scattered throughout the scholarly literature or confined to backstage conversations. This book brings the unexpected to the center of the scene and...
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The Swastika, The Earliest Known Symbol and Its Migrations: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in PrehistoricThis collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Thomas WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 03/24/2016Pages:...
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The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: The Battle of the Wabash, the United States' Greatest Defeat in the Wars Against Indigenous PeoplesAlong the Wabash River near present-day Fort Recovery, Ohio, on November 4, 1791, the Maumee Confederation of Indigenous tribes destroyed a superior American army led by Revolutionary War veteran General Arthur St. Clair. The victory was so complete, that the Shawnee recalled that the...
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The Six Systems of Indian PhilosophyThe Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Max Muller is a comprehensive exploration of the six major philosophical systems of India, offering readers a deep insight into the diverse and profound philosophical traditions that have shaped Indian thought for centuries. The Six Systems of...
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The Shaolin Temple Story: Explore Shaolin History, Culture, Kung Fu and Chán TraditionFull-Color Hardcover Edition - 448 pagesThe Shaolin Temple Story is an in-depth, well-written tour of the Monastery by someone who has lived, worked, and studied there for forty years. For those interested in Shaolin Kung Fu, the book introduces the secrets of its beginnings.Explore...
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The Secrets of Ordinary Heroes: The Multi-Generational Odyssey of an Iranian-Jewish Family and Their Escape from Khomeini's Revolution to Israel and RWhat will a family endure to ensure its survival?What will parents risk to save their children? And how will those children cope with unimaginable hardships?In The Secrets of Ordinary Heroes, Dr. Ray Tabibiazar answers these hard questions. Born a Jew in Iran, Tabibiazar and...
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The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial HighwayA history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina LowcountryCompleted in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of Charleston and...
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The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the WestDenver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred--in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880--it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who...
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The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted StoriesThe Realms of Oblivion explores the complexities involved in reconciling competing versions of history, channeled through Davies Manor, a historic site near Memphis that once centered a wealthy slave-owning family's sprawling cotton plantation. Interrogating the forces of memorialization that often go unquestioned in the...
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The Real LincolnThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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