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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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Life of a Changed ThuggAbout the BookLife of a Changed Thugg is the turbulent true story of Yusuf Hanif Salaam and his struggles growing up in a dangerous neighborhood. Through many ups and downs, Salaam eventually finds peace and truth in Islam which sees him through all his...
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León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando IA corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled the...
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Leaders of the Civil Rights MovementThe illustrated approaches to history included in this book are sure to draw in readers, even the most reluctant ones. The approachable text guides readers through comprehensive and thought-provoking biographies, helping them to grasp the real-world reverberations that resulted from the lives and actions...
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Latah CountyIts name derived from the Nez Perce language, Latah County is the only county in the United States to have been created by an Act of Congress. The abundance of its natural resources--from blue fields of camas to deep veins of gold, from great...
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Laguna Beach and the Greenbelt: Celebrating a Treasured Historical American LandscapeAuthor: Ronald ChilcotePublisher: iUniversePublished: 02/03/2017Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.27dISBN: 9781532015076This title is not returnable
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Kaleidoscope Japan: A nation through the lens of literatureAuthor: Richard NathanPublisher: Circle EditionsPublished: 08/24/2024Pages: 396Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88dISBN: 9781912864140This title is not returnable
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Julius Caesar and the Roman PeopleReinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.Author: Robert Morstein-MarxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 702Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.41dISBN: 9781108932080This title is not returnable
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST - 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER - 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL - 10...
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Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in HeliopolisAuthor: Gideon BohakPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9781589834378This title is not returnable
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Titus and PhilemonIn her latest volume on John Chrysostom, Pauline Allen translates into English nine homilies on two of Paul's letters. Included in this collection are six homilies on Titus that deal with Chrysostom's attitudes toward episcopal accountability. AThree homilies on Philemon shed light on Chrysostom's...
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Jerusalem Diaries II: What's Really Happening in IsraelEver read the news from the Middle East and want to know more about what's really happening inside the countries that make up this fascinating and troubling region? In Jerusalem Diaries II you'll learn from an insider about the captivating people, places and events...
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James Bond Route 9 and MeFrieda Toth is an internationally recognized James Bond scholar, and arguably the world's expert on Ian Fleming's nine James Bond novel, The Spy who Loved Me. Like Bond, she's an international traveler and a certified SCUBA diver. Frieda also has danced the Rat King...
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It Started with the Hats: The Life Experiences of Boston's Founding Street Gang MembersIn the late 1980s, the introduction of crack cocaine and easy access to guns led to the emergence of the street gang culture and an explosion of gun violence in Boston. Black and Latino youth were both perpetrators and victims of firearm violence as...
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Italo-Americans of Rhode Island; an Historical and Biographical Survey of the Origin, Rise and Progress of Rhode Islanders of Italian Birth or DescentThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Interasian Intimacies Across Race, Religion, and ColonialismIn InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective violence. Over the course of the twentieth century relations between Burmese...
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In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the WorldExplore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste. The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African American history and culture--with 150 powerful illustrations of people and objects. This powerful collection...
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Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of RevillaRich in period analysis, here is fascinating historical perspective covering 250 years of existence primarily of a 1750 Spanish settlement originally called "Villa del Se or San Ignacio de Loyola de Revilla" and now known as "Guerrero Viejo." Although many books cover the genealogical...
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Infinite Ascent: A Short History of MathematicsIn Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton's Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure. Berlinski focuses on the...
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Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer"The chronicle of [Broman's] Cold War CIA career bounces around the globe with his own recollections of running agents and other espionage derring-do, as well as stories told to him by friends and colleagues. There's also a good deal about his off-duty travels throughout...
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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth CenturySay "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as...
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