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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Navajo Long Walk: Tragic Story of a Proud Peoples Forced March from HomelandPowerfully written from the perspective of the Navajos and illustrated with deeply personal interpretations of historic events, this book sheds fresh light on a shameful episode of American history.Author: Joseph BruchacPublisher: National Geographic KidsPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 11.20h x 9.42w x 0.41dISBN:...
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New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian PhilosophyThis is the first book to thoroughly explore Confucian and Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics, building upon the creativity and temporality of human existence and human nature as well as their extension into human culture. Fundamental essays deal cogently with the relationship between Chinese language...
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DK Readers L4: Days of the KnightsSlashing swords, shining armor, knights locked in deadly battle--the mighty castle is under siege Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge....
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XS: Small Structures, Green ArchitectureA follow-up to the highly successful XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings, this book features contemporary solutions to two of today's most challenging problems-how to conserve space and help save the environment. The design goals of the 40 houses included here are to build as...
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Mykonos: Portrait of a Vanished EraThere are hundreds of Greek islands. Why did Mykonos become, in just a few decades, one of the world's top vacation spots? Part of the answer can be found in these remarkable images, which show the natural beauty and traditional island culture that initially...
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The Civil War: 1861-1865The Civil War takes readers on a chronological journey of the most important events of the conflict with action-packed illustrations by Mort K nstler?the most collected Civil War artist in the world?and inquiry-based text award winning historian and author James I. Robertson, Jr. With...
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The Mystery of the Vanishing SlavesAuthor: Pat Perrin, Wim ColemanPublisher: Perfection LearningPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9780789158741Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.4Point Value: 2Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 82884 / Mystery of the Vanishing SlavesThis title is only available via back order
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The Great Book of French Impressionism: (Tiny Folio)The Great Book of French Impressionism celebrates the richness and exuberance of the Impressionists' world--a world of light and color, of sunlit fields and shimmering waterscapes, of bustling city views and intimate domestic scenes. This handsomely designed Tiny Folio packs over 200 full-color illustrations,...
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Smyth County, Virginia History and TraditionsThis work begins in the 1700s, prior to the county's establishment, and records interesting incidents and major historic events of the day, as well as the names and character of many early settlers. There are also rare documents such as Colonel John Buchanan's journal,...
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Bravery Knows No BoundsDuring the Vietnam War the New Zealand Defence Force deployed a number of individuals, a number of small military elements, an artillery battery (on a rotational basis) and nine infantry rifle companies in support of the Australian Task Force role.This is the story about...
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FirehouseOne of America's most distinguished reporters and historians offers the deeply moving personal story of Engine 40, Ladder 35 -- located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center -- and the absolute sacrifice its firefighters made on September 11, 2001. On the...
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female ConvictsA seafaring story with a twist -- the incredible voyage of a shipload of disorderly girls and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them. This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female...
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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer PamirIn 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape...
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Soviet Chess 1917-1991This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess...
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Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel IslandsTheir names bespeak a rich past. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important Neolithic sites are at Skara Brae and Maes Howe in the Orkneys. Holy Iona,...
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Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward BondThese were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives...
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Architect of Soviet Victory in World War II: The Life and Theories of G.S. IssersonThe Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the deep operation--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest file in...
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Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War IIAfter the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign...
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KJV, Thinline Reference Bible, Leather-Look, Burgundy, Red Letter EditionThe King James Bible with classic center-column cross references that's just the right size to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at...
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Sicily: An Illustrated HistorySicily was the jewel of the Mediterranean, and Sicilians were the first civilized people of the Western World-here is their rich and diverse history in crisp prose and lively illustration. This concise history relates how Sicily rose to become the first independent, civilized nation...
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