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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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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers EditionFrom the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it...
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Europe: A HistoryHere is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West. Norman Davies captures it all--the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla,...
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Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.Author: Renia KukielkaPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 11/01/2023Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438494784This title is not returnable
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Epic True Tales And Crazy StoriesEPIC TRUE TALES AND CRAZY STORIES is packed with a series of fantastic true events that will entertain and astound you all at once. It is a carefully curated compendium of famous flops, curious crusades, criminal catastrophes, and baffling historical events to really spice...
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Epic of GilgameshGilgamesh, the King of Uruk, and his friend Enkidu are the only heroes from ancient Babylonian stories that have survived. They are the main characters in an old poem from around 3000 years ago. In the poem, they go on adventures together, like defeating...
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar AdventureThe legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs....
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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil WarThis book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. Chapters tell the...
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Elements of Yacht Design: The Original Edition of the Classic Book on Yacht DesignOne of the most famous books on yacht design ever written, this reprint includes the last revisions made Skene himself.Author: Norman L. SkenePublisher: Sheridan HousePublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 266Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.77h x 6.07w x 0.57dISBN: 9781493076017About the AuthorNorman L. Skene was one of America's...
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Eagle RockAuthor: Eric H. WarrenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 130Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38dISBN: 9781531645946This title is not returnable
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Don't Know Much about the 50 StatesThirteen stripes-Fifty stars-And hundreds of AMAZING facts about the U.S.A.!Can you guess the names of the ten states below? 1. I have the highest waterfalls in North America. 2. I am the smallest state. 3. I am the largest state. 4. I have produced...
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Doing Business in America: A Jewish HistoryAmerican and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning...
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Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime FrontierA pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this...
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Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the WorldA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph "Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen's] delight is infectious." --Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history...
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Devil in the Stack: Searching for the Soul of the New MachineFrom internationally-bestselling author and journalistAndrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre worldof computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt tobecome a coder himselfThroughout history, technological revolutions have beendriven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of...
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Detroit's Michigan Central StationIn 1913, the Michigan Central Station opened its majestic entrances to the people of Detroit. Designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the firms also noted as the architects of the Grand Central Station in New York City, the depot was a...
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Detroit Food: Coney Dogs to Farmers MarketsThe infamous images of Detroit's crumbling buildings, abandoned homes and weed-choked parks are known worldwide. Seldom shown are the city's thriving food ways, quietly rebuilding neighborhoods block by block with urban farms, locally made fare, new restaurants and an innovative, homegrown spirit that is...
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Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical MemoryMost of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster. In this timely book, the Americanist and New Orleans...
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Democracy and Human Rights in Nigeria's Fourth RepublicOne of the challenges Nigeria has faced since independence in 1960 has been its human rights record. Under military rule, the problem was attributed to the undemocratic nature of military regimes. When the military handed over power to civilians after an election in 1999,...
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Defending Israel: Against Hamas and Its Radical Left EnablersAlan Dershowitz--the #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most influential legal scholars--advocates for the Jewish homeland. Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client"―the state of Israel--and has been a staunch supporter both in public and in private,...
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Death Valley in '49: An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California DesertA survivor's true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long...
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