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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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Free Exercise: Religion, the First Amendment, and the Making of America"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Those sixteen words, scratched on parchment in 1789, open the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. From this spare expression, numberless interpretations have been drawn. The Supreme Court has been...
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Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United StatesThe first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom's Currency follows enslaved people's efforts to buy themselves out of slavery...
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Foundations on the Science of WarThis classic work on military strategy examines the tactical innovations and advancements that have shaped the way wars are fought and won. Fuller's insights into the role of technology, mobility, and ideology in warfare remain relevant today, making this a must-read for anyone interested...
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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume IIIAuthor: David C. KrakauerPublisher: Santa Fe Institute of SciencePublished: 05/31/2024Pages: 776Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.89lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 1.63dISBN: 9781947864542This title is not returnable
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Follow the Trail, Win the WestLegends shape what we think about how the West was won, and so many movies, along with subsequent media portrayals, tend to solidify those legends in our minds. The West was won by cowboys battling Indians, by John Wayne heroes saving helpless wagon trains,...
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Following the Front: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. OlsonFollowing the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, 1944-1945.Olson, who joined Time Inc. in 1939 and served as a senior editor there, asked to be assigned overseas as a war correspondent. In mid-December,...
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Folklore in the Nordic WorldIn seven concise chapters that document both the history of Nordic folkloristics and the ongoing vivacity of Nordic folklore today, Thomas A. DuBois demonstrates how the informal, traditional elements of a culture or subculture are an integral and vibrant part of the Nordic world....
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First Responders on 9/11Showcases stories from first responders who heroically rushed to the scene of the attacks. This book describes the experiences of the firefighters, police officers, and EMTs who put themselves in danger to come to the aid of victims and survivors. Additional features include a...
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Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade ProhibitionGuaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments. In the popular imagination, the story of...
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Father and Son: A MemoirA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award....
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Far Out!: The Untold Story of the '60s-Inspired "Back-to-the-Land" Migration that Changed Nova ScotiaThe 1960s was a period of radical social change. Many young people rejected the politics and values of the day and decided to "drop out" and migrate to the country. The desire for an independent rural life on the land took many of them...
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Famous False AccusationsFind out how the blame game worked in these famous tales of innocence. Don't trust anyone in the Lies and Liars Throughout History series. Each high interest title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the...
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Everyday Life in the Maya CivilizationOriginating in the Yucatán around 2,600 B.C., the Mayan Civilization is one of the best-known of the cultures of early Mesoamerica. From games they'll recognize to clothing they won't, readers will enjoy finding out more about this civilization's culture, government, and education. Students will...
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Ending the Troubles: Religion, Nationalism, and the Search for Peace and Democracy in Northern Ireland, 1997-1998In June 1996, the British government convened multiparty talks trying to establish peace within Northern Ireland, after thirty years of bloody civil war based on religious, cultural, political, and economic tensions, known as "The Troubles." The talks included political parties from the two factions...
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking AgeIn the time-stopping soils, waters, and ice of the North, a lost world is preserved. Remnants of wooden gaming boards scored into grids and counters made from colored glass, amber, and bone. Elegant antler combs that speak of a Viking love of grooming and...
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El Diario de Ana Frank (Tapa Dura) / The Diary of Anne Frank«No quiero haber vivido para nada, como la mayor?a de las personas. Quiero ser de utilidad y alegr?a para los que viven a mi alrededor, a?n sin conocerme. Quiero seguir viviendo, aun despu?s de muerta! . Ana Frank Este es el relato de una...
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Echoes of Vietnam A Soldier's Voice is HeardEchoes of Vietnam captures an American soldier's memories of the journey from the comforts of home, to the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the grim realities of war. A retrospective five decades in the making, Echoes includes a first-person assessment of our nation's leaders...
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Early Beginnings of Anthroposophically Extended Medicine and Therapeutic Education in North AmericaHow can healthcare providers strive to treat not just illness or disability, but the whole human being? Bertram von Zabern, MD, explores this question as he follows the historical thread of anthroposophically extended medicine in North America and weaves it into a tapestry illuminating...
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Driving Marilyn: The Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman BrokawNorman Brokaw was CEO and Chairman of the William Morris Agency from 1989 to 1997, but his legacy may lie in his ascent from mail room clerk to Marilyn Monroe's personal driver to agent for some of Hollywood's most iconic figures of the late...
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Division Street: AmericaA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."--The New York Times When New Press founder Andr? Schiffrin...
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