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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Tai Chi Sword: The 32 Simplified FormsTai Chi Sword is a weaponry form of Tai Chi practice, in which the sword is viewed as an extension of body. With the balance of body and sword, you will achieve a greater level of Tai Chi spirit, integrating your body movements with...
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Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper"Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper" is a collection of essays about that famous unidentified serial killer and related topics. Tom Wescott's "Jack and the Grapestalk" starts things out by examining claims that victim Elizabeth Stride was holding grapes when her body...
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Uncle Ed SaidOntonagon Michigan was a community of immigrants in Michigan's upper peninsula.Like many families there, our Finnish family lived a humble life. The Great Depression put even more strain on the local economy, but families worked hard, survived and even prospers. Uncle Ed has recounted...
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The Text Book of Boxing: The Deluxe Edition"The Text Book of Boxing" is one of the most important boxing books of all time. First published in 1914 and written by England's finest fighter, "The Text Book of Boxing" is a master class in the manly art of pugilism. This boxing manual...
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Ty Cobb Unleashed: The Definitive Counter-Biography of the Chastened RacistHoward W. Rosenberg's Ty Cobb Unleashed: The Definitive Counter-Biography of the Chastened Racist (Tile Books) seeks to be the go-to first source on Cobb's persona, including racially. Transparency about "what's new" is the organizing theme.While the historiography of Babe Ruth, the player closest to...
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The British Army in Germany: An Organizational History 1947-2004The BAOR of 1945 - like its largely forgotten 1919 namesake-began as an army of occupation in a defeated Germany. However, with the Cold War and NATO it evolved into something quite different: a major military force permanently stationed on the continent. This work...
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Shoeless Summer: The summer of 1923 when Shoeless Joe Jackson played baseball in Americus, GeorgiaIn the summer of 1923, Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was banned from organized baseball in 1921 for his alleged participation in the 1919 Chicago Black Sox World Series scandal, was signed on to play baseball for the Americus, Georgia semi-pro team of the independent...
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Karaites Through the Travelers' EyesSetting: The Crimean peninsula, the borderland between Europe and Asia, where East meets West. Become a guest of one of the Crimea's most enigmatic inhabitants: the Crimean Karaites. The Karaites are Jews who rely solely on the Hebrew Bible. Their enigmatic past still engenders...
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Diamond Clear Friendly Beer: The Grain Belt Story -- an illustrated historyA history of Minnesota-made Grain Belt Beer from its 1890s origins to the present, with color photos and reprints of vintage advertising.Author: Jeff R. LontoPublisher: BlurbPublished: 07/10/2019Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.29dISBN: 9780966021370
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The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western CultureThe Awakening of the West is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western culture. As anyone familiar with the work of Stephen Batchelor (best-selling author of Buddhism Without Beliefs) would expect, The Awakening of the West is...
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Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame IndustrySince its debut in 1994 as the first serious book about videogame history, Phoenix has been regarded worldwide as the Bible of videogame history by professionals and fans alike. Now in its fourth edition, the text of this deluxe hardcover volume has been completely...
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Fairhaven: A HistoryThe complete history of that most southerly community on Bellingham Bay, one of the four original towns that were consolidated in 1904 to become the present City of Bellingham. Fairhaven, Washington-from the glaciers to today-the places, the participants, and the grand possibilities. A new...
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Where has the Body been for 2000 years?: Church History for beginnersThis is an intensely readable look at the Christian Church down the ages, providing powerful messages for our own times. Many church members know little or nothing about the story of Christianity between the New Testament period and today. They therefore may not realise...
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Kaspar Hauser: Where Did He Come From?The mysterious circumstances surrounding the life and death of Kaspar Hauser still raise questions today. Born into the aristocratic house of Baden, then imprisoned and cut off from all human contact as a child, in 1828 Kaspar appeared on the streets of Nuremberg at...
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Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsDuring the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created one of the most anomalous bodies of work of his career: graphite drawings on undercoats of blue or ocher painted over a titanium white ground. For an artist known for his love of color and impasto,...
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Grumman F11F TigerThe full story of the Grumman Tiger and Super Tiger has only been told in part by non-Grumman aviation buffs and historians who wrote from second or third-hand information.Although it is over forty years later, this compendium has been written and documented by the...
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Grumman F11f-1f Super TigerThe J79 powered Mach 2 Supertiger derivative of the F-11F was developed into a world class performer and was marketed as such. It impressed the foreign aviators so that it became their first choice. That is until the political-financial giant known as Lockheed wielded...
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Convair XP5Y-1 & R3Y-1/2 TradewindThe Tradewind was one of the largest operational flying boats ever built. The 124,000 lb. XP5Y-1 was ordered in August 1946 and was to be powered by four Allison XT-40 six-bladed, counter-rotating turbo-prop engines. The aircraft utilized the latest hull design concepts which produced...
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Vought's F-8 Crusader - Part 2The photos in this edition are black and white. First published in 1988, the RF-8 book is one of four volumes on the famous F-8 Crusader series. The Supersonic PhotoSader first appeared in December 1956. Ultimately 144 aircraft were produced and were operated by...
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Douglas XSB2D-1 & BTD-1 DestroyerBob Kowalski continues the saga of the bomber Torpedo (BT) program and the similar Scout Bomber (SB) program with the obscure story of the Douglas XSB2D-1 and BTD-1 "Destroyer".The United States was still at peace when the Navy issued a requirement for a design...
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