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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call NarrativesProphecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the biblical and African American traditions, this person receives a "call" to prophetic...
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Professionals Talk Logistics: Sustaining Strategy and OperationsProfessionals talk logistics. It is an adage offered around many a military conference room, a time-honored piece of wisdom that serves as a cautionary reminder that logistics both enables and constrains military strategy and to ignore one imperils the other. Few book-length works have...
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Pre-Conquest History and Its Medieval Reception: Writing England's PastOffers insights into the political, social and cultural interests that informed the shaping of England's pre-Conquest history. The Norman Conquest brought about great change in England: new customs, a new language, and new political and ecclesiastical hierarchies. It also saw the emergence of an...
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Postmarked Akron: Lost Stories of Places and People Discovered in Vintage PostcardsUncovers the forgotten stories of a city through the lens of early 20th-century postcards, capturing people, places, and lost landmarks.In the early 1900s, nearly a million postcards were sent from Akron and the surrounding areas to recipients across the world. Hidden in these postcards...
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Post-Impressionism: Beyond AppearancesAuthor: Jean-Remi TouzetPublisher: Skira ParisPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.90dISBN: 9782370742568
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Portland Queer: Stories of LGBTQ+ Life in Portland, OregonAuthor: Ariel GorePublisher: Microcosm PublishingPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781648414435About the AuthorAriel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the author of 10 books, including F*ck Happiness, and the creator of the zine Hip Mama, a winner of the...
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Politically Incorrect History of the Nz Wars"...never dare to set down what is false... never dare to conceal the truth... be no suspicion of either favouritism or prejudice..." Cicero (106 BC to 43 BC) The New Zealand Wars started when the second canoe landed and continued without break until 1840,...
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Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite ChildhoodExamining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhouses and Privilege explores children's playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s and the mid-1930s. Different from the prefabricated buildings that later populated...
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Plato's ApologyPlato's Apology - A Riveting Defense of Philosophy and the Pursuit of Truth Step into the courtroom of ancient Athens and witness a moment that forever shaped the course of Western thought. Plato's "Apology" is not an apology in the modern sense but a...
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic MasterpiecePlato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens. Yet the image we...
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Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power CompetitionHow have navies contemplated possible enemies? How did they learn, or fail to learn, once operations began? How does this analysis inform today's planning for future conflict? These questions guide the noted historians and naval strategists who contributed to Planning for War at Sea....
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Picture the Past(tm) Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution: Historical Coloring BookColor 42 legendary American Revolution heroes and heroines. These dramatic illustrations include Nathan Hale, an American spy captured and executed by the British; Margaret Cochran Corbin, who followed her husband to the battlefront and took his place as a gunner when he was killed;...
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Philo of Alexandria: Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleatPhilo's Quod deterius is a discussion of the Cain and Abel episode in the Bible. Philo follows the Greek translation of the Septuagint, not the Hebrew text, although he may have known traditions that relied on the Hebrew. His treatment of the text is...
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Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great DepressionA history of America's most infamous tariff The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with--and sometimes blamed for--the onset of the Great Depression, the...
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'BrienThe first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews. "Vietnam made me a writer." --Tim O'Brien Featuring over one hundred interviews...
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Paula Rego: Power GamesAn exploration of Paula Rego's complex heroines and modern fairy-tale pictures. The female protagonists of the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego either come from real life or derive from the world's great legends, fairy tales, and myths. As complicated heroines of our time, they have...
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Pau and the PyreneesGet ready to explore the breathtaking beauty of the Pyrenees with this thrilling travelogue from Henry Russell. Join Russell as he treks through the majestic mountains and delves into the rich history of the region. With stunning photographs and vivid descriptions, this book is...
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Paradox at Play: Metaphor in Meister Eckhart's Sermons: with Previously Unpublished SermonsFresh translations of Meister Eckhart's sermons are made available in this volume: three for the first time in English and sixteen others for the first time since C. de B. Evans translated them in 1924 and 1931, long before the critical editions of the...
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Parable, Parables - PeshaṭThe projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism...
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Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on WarA reporter and novelist who is also a soldier in the Ukrainian army reconsiders his pacifism and the choices one makes when war is waged against you. "Chapeye represents a modern-day Ukrainian counterpart to classic American writers like Mark Twain or O. Henry, capturing...
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