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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Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool ChildBlending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining...
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Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool ChildBlending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining...
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Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf IslandLocated in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island is the first serious, book-length study of the island's history. From the fourteenth century onward, the island was an important dependency...
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love ThemA rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up the rigor of actual...
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Progress and Poverty - The Complete Works of Henry George"Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it." - Emma Lazarus In this landmark text, Henry George lays out his study...
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Programming Language Cultures: Automating AutomationIn this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code comments, metasyntactic variables, the very...
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Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on WikipediaIn 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was...
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Preparing the Yamaha YZ and IT for Competition: includes Riding with the HurricaneFirst published in 1979 as the "Moto-X Fox Guide to Preparing the Yamaha YZ and IT for Competition", this 64-page book was written and photographed by famed 1970's Cycle News editor, racer and motocross journalist Jim "Jimmy the Greek" Gianatsis. It covers the development...
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Praetorian Kingdom: A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand"This is one of the most comprehensive studies of contemporary Thai politics seen through the careers of Thai military leaders since 1932 up until now. It is of vital importance if one is to understand present-day Thai politics."-Kullada Kesboonchoo-Mead, Chulalongkorn University (retired), author of...
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Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian PrinceEmbark on a new exploration of power dynamics through the book. The book challenges traditional notions of power, introducing a contemporary model that empowers ordinary individuals to wield power. Delving into the intricacies of human behavior, it presents a compelling contrast to the Machiavellian...
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Pop Forever - Tom Wesselman- The most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to Tom Wesselmann- Published to accompany Fondation Louis Vuitton's exhibition, which will be held from October 2024 to February 2024At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition...
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Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass MurderA chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the...
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Politics Unseen: Group F.64 Photography and the Problem of PurityIn Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members' and their prints' alliances across commercial, political, and artistic domains, the book...
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Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth ReconstructionPoles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-depth interviews with scholars, community leaders, and laity in Poland and the U.S., Stark-Blumenthal dispels myths,...
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Plato's Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, DialecticianThis book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally,...
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Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House: Psychologists Assess the PresidentsPersonality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present truly scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work dramatically improves the state-of-the-art in classifying presidents and predicting performance in the White House. Dr. Steven Rubenzer and...
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Paul Rotterdam: Nightbow and Other EventsAn exaltation of the sublime artist, Paul Rotterdam. Painter, illustrator, and graphic artist Paul Rotterdam (b. 1939) is the Austrian member of the New York School, a group of artists whose radical approaches pushed pure abstraction to its very limits. In the late 1960s,...
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Patton's Shadow: The Making of a Hero in Modern MemoryAn engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American culture and hero worshipPatton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the...
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ParisParis grew from a fishing village on an island to become a city known for art, fashion, and education. In this beginning title, curious readers can follow the city's transformation with narrative text and colorful illustrations. Mission goals prepare readers for what's ahead, while...
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Pagan Portals - Maman Brigitte: Dark Goddess of Africa and IrelandMaman Brigitte takes a close look at the unique persona of Brigitte, who is a blend of the goddesses Brigid of Ireland and Oya of Western Africa. This book engages with Vodou as a religion and outlines the circumstances surrounding Brigitte's emergence in Haiti...
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