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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Alberto Abate: Catalogue Raisonn?A rare figurative painter amid the 20th-century Italian avant-garde sceneThe catalogue raisonn? of Alberto Abate (1946-2012) constitutes a new overview of his entire career. It analyzes the mythological themes that distinguish his 1980s paintings, his symbolic works of the 1990s and beyond, creating a...
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Airpower for Strategic EffectIn this magisterial tour d'horizon of the air weapon's steady rise in effectiveness since its fledgling days, Colin Gray, a prolific strate gist of long-standing scholarly achievement and international repute, has rightly taken a long view of today's pattern of regional conflict by appraising...
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A History of Disinformation in the U.S.This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American history. It examines several of the lurid hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have inspired press coverage, as well as some of the political lies promoted by partisan gladiators, whether of the eighteenth century or today.Author:...
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A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail: For Families and History BuffsHit the road with journalist Mark DiIonno as he takes you on a tour of New Jersey's extraordinary Revolutionary War history. Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, DiIonno has compiled the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the...
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Africa and the West: A Documentary History: Volume 1: From the Slave Trade to Conquest, 1441-1905Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume...
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A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us OccupationA poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"--a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for forty years. New mother Chŏn...
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A Day in Ancient MayaIn this title, early fluent readers will wake up in ancient Maya and follow characters as they go about their day. Read along as stonecutters help build pyramids, athletes face off in a ball game, and priests study the night sky to create a...
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A Day in Ancient GreeceIn this title, early fluent readers will wake up in ancient Greece and follow characters as they go about their day. Read along as people honor the Greek gods, citizens participate in democracy by voting, and people gather to watch a chariot race. Vibrant...
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A Day in Ancient ChinaIn this title, early fluent readers will wake up in the Tang Dynasty of ancient China and follow characters as they go about their day. Read along as farmers tend their crops, as empress Wu Zetian listens to poetry, and as everyone enjoys the...
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A Closer Look: Still LifeWhat is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of painting. She discusses its evolution...
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5 Facts a Day Science: A Little Bit of Learning Every DayAre you ready to have your mind blown? Wow all your friends and family with 5 jaw-dropping facts about science each day. Discover 5 facts a day, 5 days a week with this exciting science book for children aged 8-12. With five facts a...
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201 Maths Activity Book: Fun Activities and Math ExercisesMath is fun if the concepts are learnt in an engaging manner. 201 Maths Activity Book does just that and keeps the young mathematicians engrossed with over 200 activities. Covering various concepts of maths, the learners are sure to sharpen their reasoning skills. Gorgeous...
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10564 shriishailamalleishvarastootramuluPrayer and hymns dedicated to the deity Shriishailamalleishvara, a form of Lord Shiva, composed in the Telugu language.This 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...
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Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium BceThe epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the...
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Writing Home: Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. FiedlerThe letters in Writing Home offer a glimpse into a crucially formative period in the life of Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the greatest literary critics and American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Written to his wife and two sons between May 1944...
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Writing Against Hitler: Hermann Budzislawski and the Making of Twentieth-Century SocialismIn Writing Against Hitler, Daniel Siemens reconstructs the history of the struggles of socialist intellectuals in Germany from the 1920s through the post-World War II era by focusing on the life of one influential member of that group, Hermann Budzislawski (1901-78). In the 1930s,...
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Wrecked: A Deep Dive Into the World's Most Famous ShipwrecksThere are over 3 million shipwrecks on Earth. They are many things at once: memorials to lives lost, science experiments, treasure chests, works of art, and home to millions of living creatures. They are time machines, allowing modern explorers a glimpse into the past....
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Women's Representation in African Politics: Beyond NumbersDoes the election of more and more women into political offices mean that women's interests will be better protected? This question forms the background upon which this book is written as it forms a timely intervention concerning the clamour for increased women's representation in...
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Women Architects at Work: Making American ModernismA comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories...
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Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern CultureA particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with...
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