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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Who Discovered America?Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas--offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America?...
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What Went Wrong?The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a tumultuous period for Russia and Ukraine. The Soviet Union broke apart, Communism was exposed as morally bankrupt, and Russian leaders turned to the West for help. In an astonishing development, Mikhail Gorbachev and...
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What Was the Renaissance?Discover all there is to know about the Renaissance, the period in history that took Europe from the Middle Ages to modern times! Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance was a cultural movement that spread throughout Europe and affected art, science, technology, politics, and thought....
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What is Sukkot?: Your guide to the unique traditions of the Jewish Festival of HutsDiscover the traditions, laws, and foods of the Sukkot holiday in this fact-filled, non-fiction book for kids aged 4-10. Learn what Jewish people do on Sukkot. Find out why they build small huts in their gardens. Discover what the Four Species are and why...
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What If Higgins Had Given Up?: The Story of the WWII D-Day Boats"It's always too early to quit." That could have been the motto of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the man who never gave up in his quest to design and provide the perfect boats needed for important missions during World War II. It was his determination...
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What Happened to Catholicism: The Heresy Behind the Current CrisisIt is clear that since the Second Vatican Council the Church has been plagued with a terrible doctrinal and liturgical confusion that has contributed to the worst crisis in the Church since the Arian crisis.Most Catholics of good will with orthodox faith can 'sense'...
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Waste Land: A World in Permanent CrisisAn urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography We are entering a new...
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became DespotismKevin Slack sounds the alarm on how America's failed neoliberal regime has given way to a woke oligarchy that has deployed a radical toolkit to rapidly strip away the rights of citizens.Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably...
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War on GazaAuthor: Joe SaccoPublisher: Fantagraphics BooksPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9798875000904
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War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth CenturyWar and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that's grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It's a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to...
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Waneella: PixelscapesThis stunning volume documents Waneella's unique journey from novice pixel pusher to world-renowned artist, indisputably the leading name in this reinvention of the once retro pixel-art aesthetic. The book will take us from her early experiments with the pixel-art form creating pseudovideogame visuals, through...
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Wagner Group: Private Military Company: Establishment, Profile and Operations 2013-2023 Volume 1Examines the predecessors to the Wagner Group, its activities in a number of conflicts around the world, and its armed mutiny against the top leadership of the Russian Federation.The Wagner Group is symbolic of Russia's deployment of private military companies (PMCs) to exercise influence...
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Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American SuburbsIn Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and California in 2010. The...
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Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits- The essential book of Hidden Portraits by thought-provoking artist Volker Hermes- Beautiful collection of contemporary art gone global through social media- Featuring commentary by leading academics Till-Holger Borchert and Professor Francesca Raimondi- A must-have reinterpretation of historical privilege through a very modern lens-...
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Vital Signs: Artists and the BodyAn impressive and wide-ranging showcase of mostly women and gender-expansive artists whose work intertwines fluid ideas of embodiment with capacious models of abstractionThis stunningly illustrated exhibition catalog looks closely at how abstraction in art is often intimately tied with shifting ideas of the bodily....
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Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of EnglandAn intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state" The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam...
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Van Gogh: The Bigger PictureVan Gogh's sublime artistry comes alive in this luxuriously packaged volume that features a canvas cover, impeccable reproductions of all the major works, and 48 extra pages on 6 fold-out spreads. From the iconic Starry Night to sunflowers and irises that radiate with vibrant...
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USS Princeton: The Life and Loss of Sweet PAn in-depth history of the US Navy's light aircraft carrier the USS Princeton and its operational exploits in the Pacific Theater of World War II. This new history of the life and loss of the USS Princeton tells the story of one of the...
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Unsung Figures in Rensselaer, New YorkThe Unsung Figures in Rensselaer New York is about the light on the often-overlooked figures who have quietly shaped the city's rich tapestry of history. Nestled along the Hudson River, Rensselaer has been a silent witness to centuries of change, from its Dutch colonial...
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Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet UncannyToday's Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of the Great Patriotic War and a society that provided for all its citizens or in an alternative future in which the USSR never collapsed. Eliot Borenstein examines...
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