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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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Where Is California?Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of California with Who HQ! Learn about everything from the stars of Hollywood to the miles of coastal views in this illustrated book for young readers. From the creators of the #1 New York...
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When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?The Definitive Introduction ToThe Relationship BetweenReligion And Science∗ In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur?∗ Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality?∗ Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God′s Way of Creating?∗ Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes?∗ God...
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What Now, Lieutenant?: Leadership Forged from Events in Vietnam, Desert Storm and BeyondWars fought on a grand scale with global consequences are made up of countless smaller battles and events. For the men who fought, bled and died in them they are not small-those little pieces of war-and the personal aftermath and their effect is beyond...
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What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic ExileLarry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High...
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We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate GiantAuthor: Julia FlintPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10dISBN: 9781985903067About the AuthorFlint, Julia: - Julia Flint is a writer from the Appalachian Rust Belt. She has worked as a researcher and program coordinator for education, community...
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We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a MovementWe've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of aMovement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, tracing themovement that propelled her back to the 1988 presidential campaign of...
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Weird But True! Know-It-All U.S. PresidentsWhat's so weird about U.S. presidents? Plenty! Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a great wrestler? That Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket riding his horse - twice! Or that Benjamin Harrison was afraid of electricity? And let's not forget that President...
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Warriors in WashingtonHow did the US Army emerge as one of the most powerful political organizations in the United States following World War II? In this book, Grant H. Golub asserts that this remarkable shift was the result of the Army's political masters consciously transforming the...
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Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American WestThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West "A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of colonialism at its center."--Ned Blackhawk,...
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Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the RestA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress "An innovative and exhilarating read."--Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the...
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Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American WestAmerican Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of...
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the WorldThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into...
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Unveiled: Inside Iran's #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt"Unveiled takes us inside the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement, sparked by the slaying of a young woman for wearing a loose hijab, in what became the most serious challenge the regime has faced in forty-six years. Harounoff has given us a nonfiction drama replete...
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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and WonderDiscover the wonders and perils of the earth's precious metals--what they have offered us as humans, and how they've forever changed our relationship with the world around us The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to...
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Trace Your German Roots OnlineExplore your ethnic German heritage from the comfort of your own computer! This revised 2nd edition highlights important German resources on popular genealogy websites including Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, as well as lesser-known resources such as Archion.de, Matricula.eu and the massive Germany-based site Compgen.de. With...
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TombstoneTombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America's Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, and with that strike, Tombstone was created. It soon grew...
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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical nerds, The Map Men!Hello, we're the Map Men and in the following pages, we've selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some...
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They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil WarThey Should Have Been Hanged is a collection of essays presenting a stimulating revisionist view of the U.S. Civil War. Gary Brecher aka John Dolan rejects both the Lost Cause myth and insipid mainstream histories. Instead, he relies on the testimony of contemporary figures...
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The Year 1000: When Globalization Began*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a "vivid" and "astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected...
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the ForecastFrom the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planetThe weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple...
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