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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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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer MulhollandJoan Trumpauer Mulholland was a white teenager in the South during Segregation who put herself on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle. This is the first biography about her experiences, published simultaneously in picture book and middle grade editions, detailing the many...
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Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic - Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central GreeShaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic-Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) sheds some necessary light on local economies from the (late) Hellenistic to the Late Roman period. The concepts of regions and regionality are...
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Shane Comes HomeOn March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history, award-winning writer Rinker Buck chronicles Shane's death and his life, exploring its meaning...
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra;A powerful and haunting tragedy of love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of ancient Rome. Antony and Cleopatra's love affair is one of the most iconic in all of literature, and Shakespeare's treatment of their story is both beautiful and devastating.This work has...
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Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi BrandHitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, an instrument of government, but also as the...
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Sedulius, Carmen Paschale, Buch IIIDer christliche Dichter Sedulius steht mit seinem Ostergedicht (Carmen paschale) auf der Hohe spatantiker Sprachkunst und ist zugleich eines der Hauptvorbilder fur die ganze lateinische Poesie des Mittelalters (M. Manitius). Das dritte Buch des Werks, das hier erstmals grundlich kommentiert wird, entwickelt in loser...
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Sebastian Castellio: Ein Leben Fur Gewaltlosigkeit Und ToleranzDieser Comic zeichnet das Leben des Humanisten und religiosen Nonkonformisten Sebastian Castellio nach und zeigt, wie aus dem Sohn armer Bauern ein Gelehrter wurde, der sich gegen den ubermachtigen Genfer Reformator Johannes Calvin stellt. Sebastian Castellio steht fur die vielen, die machtlos gegen die...
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Sebastian Castellio: Ein Leben Fur Gewaltlosigkeit Und ToleranzDieser Comic zeichnet das Leben des Humanisten und religiosen Nonkonformisten Sebastian Castellio nach und zeigt, wie aus dem Sohn armer Bauern ein Gelehrter wurde, der sich gegen den ubermachtigen Genfer Reformator Johannes Calvin stellt. Sebastian Castellio steht fur die vielen, die machtlos gegen die...
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Scottish Chiefs: A RomanceFirst published in 1809, Scottish Chiefs is a historical novel set during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th century. The book tells the story of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and other Scottish patriots as they battle against the English forces...
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Schizophrenogen: Eine Wissensgeschichte Des Verhaltnisses Zwischen Schizophrenie, Familie Und Gesellschaft (1948-1980)Wie die angloamerikanischen Psychowissenschaften wahrend des Kalten Kriegs die Familie als schizophrenogene Umgebung konzeptualisierten, ist Gegenstand dieses Buchs. Familienbeziehungen galten als besonders storungsanfallige Systeme, deren Fehlfunktion schlimmstenfalls zu Anpassungsstorungen wie der Schizophrenie fuhren konne. Je nach Perspektive war es die ubermassige oder die ungenugende...
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Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of VietnamBest First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha ThetaScars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers who denied American citizenship to the Amerasians of Vietnam--the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War....
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Say AnarchaA critically acclaimed reckoning with the birth of women's healthcare that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now. For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the "father of...
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Saving Stuart, Florida: Rebuilding America's Happiest Seaside TownIt was a common story in the 1980s: downtowns were dying. Stuart was right there with the ill-fated. Businesses had largely abandoned Stuart's historic buildings, leaving the streets deserted. The St. Lucie River, which should have been an asset, was more of a liability,...
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Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never EndIs Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else...
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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern ZooNow completely revised! A history of the modern zoo.In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck, the most successful dealer in exotic animals in the nineteenth...
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Sasanian Archaeology: Settlements, Environment and Material CultureThe Sasanian empire was one of the great powers of Late Antiquity, and for four centuries ruled the vast region stretching from Syria and the Caucasus to Central Asia. Classical, Armenian, Jewish and Arab written sources throw light on its history, and studies of...
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Sacred Texts & Sacred Figures: The Reception and Use of Inherited Traditions in Early Christian Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Edmondo F. LupieIn tribute to the scholarly legacy of Edmondo F. Lupieri, in Sacred Texts, Sacred Figures an international group of esteemed biblical scholars offer essays on the ways religious traditions, texts, and even the legacies of notable figures were received, re-interpreted, and used by the...
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Sacrament an Alter / The Sacrament of the Altar: A Critical Edition with Translation'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No complete critical edition of...
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Rwanda, Un Deuil Impossible: Effacement Et TracesIn 1994, when Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali was twelve years old, the worst possible thing happened to him. During the Tutsi genocide, thousands of tortured victims, thrown into the rivers of Rwanda, were pulled from Lake Victoria. The author follows their invisible trace on...
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Rwanda, Un Deuil Impossible: Effacement Et TracesIn 1994, when Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali was twelve years old, the worst possible thing happened to him. During the Tutsi genocide, thousands of tortured victims, thrown into the rivers of Rwanda, were pulled from Lake Victoria. The author follows their invisible trace on...
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