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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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New York City Crossword PuzzlesFrom its subways to its skyline, New York City is America's busiest, noisiest, and most exciting city. These 12 puzzles are designed to take you from Hell's Kitchen to Harlem, from Brooklyn to the Bronx--and everywhere in between. Grab a pencil, open this book,...
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Anatolian Days & Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey: Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and SaintsWhen Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love...
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A Quaker Prayer LifeA Quaker prayer life arises from a life of continuing daily attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies....
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The Legislative Process: How Our Laws Are Made, Volume 1This book is intended to provide a basic outline of the numerous steps of our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislative proposal through its publication as a statute. The legislative process is a matter about which every person...
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The Cochise County Cowboys - Who Were These Men?Heretofore, the "Tombstone Cowboys" have been portrayed as gun-slinging, snaggle-toothed bad guys bent on destruction with no family history, morals, or redeeming qualities. This book gives us a better understanding of the Earp enemies who have been written off as little more than scoundrels...
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A Thousand Miles up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second EditionAs enthralling as any work of fiction, A Thousand Miles up the Nile is the quintessential Victorian travel book.In 1873, Amelia B. Edwards, a Victorian gentlewoman, spent the winter visiting the then largely unspoiled splendors of ancient Egypt. An accurate and sympathetic observer, she...
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The Pasdaran: Inside Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsThe Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami) is more commonly known as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), or the Pasadran. Sworn by an oath of loyalty to Iran's Supreme Leader, the IRGC is the regime's Praetorian Guard,...
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Time Capsule: The Book of RecordThe world's first Time Capsule, filled with artifacts and documents that tell the story of 1930s America, was buried at the site of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Time Capsule II was buried ten feet away at the 1964-1965 Fair. Together, the two...
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Art of War: Sun Tzu's Original Art of War Pocket EditionTOP 5 ART OF WAR QUOTES 1. "Know your enemy and know yourself, win without danger." 2. "Knowing when to do battle and when not to do battle brings victory." 3. "Those skilled at making war subdue another's army without battle, overcome another's walled...
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Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960Mining Childhood offers a fresh perspective on Montana history. Drawing from a broad range of archival materials and oral histories, the book offers a child's-eye view of key events in Butte's history and considers how social, political, and economic forces shaping life in Butte...
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For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus Jr.In 2007 a file of letters between University of Heidelberg roommates and lifelong friends, Otto Frank and Nathan Straus Jr., was found in the archives of YIVO: The Institute for Jewish Research. The letters revealed for the first time that Otto Frank, diarist Anne's...
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Brice MardenThroughout his career, American artist Brice Marden (born 1938) has explored various modes of painterly abstraction, producing monochrome canvases in nuanced, muted hues as well as calligraphic compositions on a grand scale. This book marks the long-term exhibition of Moss Sutra with the Seasons...
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The Gospel According to Acharya SThe Gospel According to Acharya S provides intriguing insight into important, probing questions about God while defining humanity in as enlightened and evolved a manner as possible.Author: D. M. Murdock, Acharya SPublisher: Stellar House Publishing, LLCPublished: 07/31/2009Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w...
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The 9/11 Mystery Plane: And the Vanishing of AmericaUnlike other accounts of the historic attacks on 9/11, this discussion surveys the role of the world's most advanced military command and control plane, the E-4B, in the day's events and proposes that the horrific incidents were the work of a covert operation staged...
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The Oneonta RoundhouseThe Oneonta Roundhouse provides the definitive account of the birth, life, and death of the world's largest railroad roundhouse, built in the early 1900s in Oneonta, New York. Jim Loudon, a founding member of the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, describes in detail the earlier...
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Dad's Railroad: The Mountain GoatA children's story about the short line railroad that climbed the mountain from Cowan and stretched to Palmer, as told by 10-year-old Fritz, who lives in Tracy City, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Take a ride with Fritz as he heads down to Cowan for...
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Why You're Already A Leader: Gettysburg stories that prove leadership is in your DNACan reading about the Battle of Gettysburg improve your day? Your life? If you enjoy fast-paced story-telling that inspires self-discovery, here are over 200 life-lessons from 88 stories that are stimulating takeaways that reveal how character is defined, how your success can be achieved,...
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The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century ReaderTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land heirship, the damming of the Missouri River, and shifting federal politices are among the topics discussed.Author: Richmond L. ClowPublisher: South Dakota State...
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Open Secrets: The Letters of Reb Yerachmiel Ben YisraelAn extraordinary exchange, encompassing the essence of both esoteric Judaism and Zen Buddhism.Author: Rabbi Rami M. ShapiroPublisher: Monkfish Book PublishingPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.69h x 5.21w x 0.41dISBN: 9780974935928About the AuthorRabbi Rami Shapiro is an award winning poet and essayist, whose liturgical...
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Escaping Alcatraz: The Untold Story of the Greatest Prison Break in American HistoryNOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night on June 11, 1962, using only crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way...
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