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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A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the WorldWritten with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events--and the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a compelling, surprising, disturbing, and...
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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape2021 Southwest Books of the Year In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to...
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Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and BeyondWoven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as...
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Analytical Fleet Maintenance Management, 3rd EditionThis edition of Analytical Fleet Maintenance Management, the first update in more than a decade, details technologies that can benefit fleet managers, and reviews the best practices in fleet maintenance management. This third edition contains chapters on fleet management leadership, and facility design and...
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Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of LibertyHere is the story of how the Statue of Liberty got its pedestal when Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant and famous newsman, created one of the first American crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for it. When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's...
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Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the WorldThis global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to Make China Great Again. We in the West routinely ask: What does China want? The answer is quite simple:...
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Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a LifewayWestern Heritage Award, Best Western Nonfiction Book, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have never been fully...
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Tantra: Enlightenment to RevolutionThe Tantras, a set of sacred manuscripts that emerged in India from around the sixth century CE, detail rituals for attracting spiritual, worldly, and supernatural power. These rituals, which focus on the power of fierce gods and goddesses and center around yoga, self-deification, sexual...
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Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual CultureOn two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of these cataclysmic bombings draws near, American and Japanese citizens are seeking new ways to memorialize these events for...
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Impressionist CatsCats playing a quiet game of cards, cats at the ballet, cats having a leisurely lunch on the grass, cats boating on the river...These are the quintessential Impressionist cats, painted with vivid, joyous colors in their favorite haunts, at their ease in various ordinary...
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The Story of Scottish ArtThis is the fascinating story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5,000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow's position as a center of artistic innovation today. BBC TV...
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Van EyckFlemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge, and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unknown heights and helped determine the course of Western art.In 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts...
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams"America's first power couple," John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters -- from their 1762 courtship to the end of John's political career in 1801 -- covers topics ranging from politics and...
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The Theory of Lie Derivatives and Its ApplicationsDifferential geometry has become one of the most active areas of math publishing, yet a small list of older, unofficial classics continues to interest the contemporary generation of mathematicians and students. This advanced treatment of topics in differential geometry, first published in 1957, was...
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Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia del EspionajeDid you know that espionage is the oldest profession in the world? Are you aware that there has been no victory in history without prior espionage? Was Francisco de Quevedo a spy? These and other questions are answered in this book that reveals numerous...
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The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 is a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls for peace and justice. Fifty years after the National Guard killed...
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Creative License: From Leeds College of Art to Leeds Polytechnic, 1963-1973'Creative License' describes what happened next and the continuum leading up to this moment. In this ground-breaking study, James Charnley reveals the personalities and events that ignited an explosion of radical creativity such that a contemporary observer, Patrick Heron, could describe Leeds College of...
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Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance CollectorFerdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private libraries assembled during the Renaissance and the most important early collection of prints. Although...
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Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion And The Supernatural In England, 1500-1700How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences? Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers' assaults on established beliefs about the afterlife. He shows...
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War Stories From the Forgotten SoldiersThey suffer physical injury and moral trauma as they fight in wars to protect us -- while most of us are unaware of their efforts. If we send our soldiers to war, we also are responsible for welcoming them home and helping them heal....
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