History
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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Camp Cooking, New EditionThe 20th anniversary edition of this bestselling cookbook celebrating camp cooking, the Forest Service, and public lands preservation in the US.The National Museum of Forest Service History presents a charming cookbook that celebrates decades of camp cooking by countless Forest Service agents in the...
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Bushido: Code of the Samurai (Pocket Edition)Beautifully produced in a handy pocket-size format and with a timeless design, Bushido: Code of the Samurai includes the classic Inazo Nitobe text with a new introduction and colorful illustrations throughout. Bushido is the chivalric code of moral principles that the Samurai followed: rectitude,...
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Burden of Truth: A Path to Justice for My Family & CommunityIn the heart of rural Louisiana, a courageous woman takes a stand against injustice, corruption, and the weight of history to recover her family's property and dignity.As a child, Robby Carrier Bethel knew there were secrets about her family's farmland, but she would work...
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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car BombThe brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs--the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's...
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Bruce Lee: A Comprehensive Biography of Bruce Lee (Isometric Exercise Routines for a Bruce Lee Body)In addition to chronicling his professional achievements, bruce lee: the legend lives on delves into his personal life-his role as a husband to linda lee cadwell and father to brandon lee and shannon lee-and how they coped with their loss while continuing his legacy...
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Britain's L42A1: King of the Enfield Sniper RiflesBritain's L42A1 was the last and best of the Enfield sniper rifles. These legendarily reliable and accurate rifles were built on arguably the best of all the WW II sniper rifles fielded in the No. 4 Mk I (T) .303 and converted to 7.62x51mm...
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Blue Devils in Italy: A History of the 88th Infantry Division in World War II""Blue Devils In Italy: A History Of The 88th Infantry Division In World War II"" is a comprehensive account of the 88th Infantry Division's involvement in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Written by John P. Delaney, a veteran of the division, the...
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Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A HistoryMartha's Vineyard has always been a unique island and vacation destination, made even more diverse with the arrival of Black homeowners in the 19 th century. Early landowners included the formerly enslaved Charles Shearer, who along with his wife Henrietta, founded Shearer Cottage. However,...
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Bizarre Medical Ideas: ... and the Strange Men Who Invented ThemThis book focuses on the individuals who invented specific forms of alternative medicine. Examples are Hahnemann (homeopathy), Still (osteopathy), Schulz (autogenic training). In total, about 40 such personalities are included in the book. They have all led unusual lives, and the book explores their...
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive SkyscrapersA "thrilling" (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row--from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal "Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively...
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Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of BuddhismBeyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism is an accessible collection of multidisciplinary essays, which offer a genuinely new appraisal of the great Zen scholar-practitioner, D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966). Suzuki's writings and lectures continue to exert a profound influence on...
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of HairdressingFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women's hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact...
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Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and RomeThis volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyze how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome. The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat...
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Beginning Biblical HebrewAchieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its...
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Beacon HillBeacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s. In colonial days, the area served as a strategic look-out point; in the early years of the 1800s it quickly developed into a home...
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Baseball: An Astrological SightlineThe Magic of Baseball Made ClearMany of us recognize that ineffable quality within baseball. Movies such as Field of Dreams and Damn Yankees speculate into metaphysical elements of the game. But so far, nothing has been written that makes lucid the spiritual aspect of...
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BacktrackingThis memoir is the quintessential account of Fred Gray-sheepherder, soldier, husband and father, surveyor, and businessman-growing up and living in the Western frontier town of Buffalo, Wyoming, during the century following his birth in 1924. The reader will find him backtracking through his 90-plus-year-life...
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A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72 is the period study that investigates the origins of the Cold War, three of the key Cold War Crises and the attempts to ease the tensions of the Cold War. You will study the role key individuals played...
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A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam's Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded AgeCharles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One...
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A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider WithinThe U.S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all men were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with "certain unalienable Rights." Yet, U.S.-born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with "equal protections under the law" until the...
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