History
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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Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives"A must-read."--Publishers Weekly From weird history expert J. W. Ocker, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history.Everything you've ever wanted to know about history's most notorious cults--and the psychology of the people who join them--is packed into...
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Conservative at the Core: A New History of American ConservatismConservative at the Core unpacks the history, rhetoric, and policies of the American conservative movement and probes the truth about what conservatism actually represents.Allan J. Lichtman investigates the foundations and history of conservative thought to identify and reveal the central crisis that lies at...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedIn Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices...
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of AuschwitzNational Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time--from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the...
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Clodia of Rome: Champion of the RepublicOne of Rome's most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot--thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero's most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own property and...
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Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and PlacesA beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythology. Written by Annette...
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Cinema SpeculationInstant New York Times bestsellerThe long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to...
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Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full SelfA provocative interactive workbook that leads us to reclaim our true selves so we can find the peace and well-being we deserve With the publication of her electrifying New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior, Elise Loehnen--often deemed "our culture's therapist"--offered a groundbreaking...
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Cats and Us: A Ten-Thousand-Year FascinationCats have always fascinated us! When human beings first encountered wild cats, they could see things in the dark that our eyes couldn't, and their hunting helped keep pests away. Eventually, they became our companions, and joined us on journeys across the sea to...
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Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith (Second Edition)What is Catholicism? A two-thousand-year-old living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart, and mind of the Catholic faith.Starting from the essential foundation...
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Cape Dreams: A Season with the Brewster WhitecapsCAPE DREAMS-A SEASON WITH THE BREWSTER WHITECAPS FOREWORD BY PETER GAMMONSTucked away on the shores of Cape Cod Bay there lies one of the greatest amateur athletic organizations in American sport's history. Welcome to the 101-year-old tradition of the Cape Cod Baseball League. This...
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Build Your Own Dragons Sticker BookBuild 11 of the biggest, fiercest, most powerful dragons from the land of Ravenhold in this exciting activity book. Fantasy lovers will have hours of fun adding stickers of claws, teeth and armor to dragons including Stalagar the ice dragon and Magaloki the three-headed...
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Buildings That Changed HistoryExplore the world's most fascinating historical and contemporary buildings, from ancient pyramids to high-tech skyscrapers, in this essential guide to architecture. Buildings That Changed History gives you an overview of the history of architecture from the ancient world to the present day. It takes...
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BrooklynColm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel--also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of...
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the WorldWhich countries don't have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the "wrong" side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California's? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You'll learn answers to these questions...
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Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of TranscendentalismA group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do?...
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Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across AmericaSoar into the gripping and uplifting true story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies--and beyond, from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin. Nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group...
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World WarTraditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others...
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named one...
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Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 HoustonThe first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in TexasOn the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events...
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