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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Gaudí. the Complete Works. 45th Ed.Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a Modernista aesthetic that made Barcelona a mecca for architecture fans. With new photography, plans, Gaudí's drawings, and a complete appendix of his works including unfinished projects, this book takes us into the proud...
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Garden: Exploring the Horticultural WorldWinner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series As seen in The New York Times, NPR.org, Gardens Illustrated, and AD ProA richly illustrated survey celebrating humankind's enduring relationship with the garden, explored throughout art, science, history, and...
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Frommer's Paris 2025Frommer's books aren't written by committee, by AI, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We employ the best local experts to author our guides, like longtime Paris resident Anna E. Brooke. In...
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's WrathFollowing his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of millions of dollars and kill...
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Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal PowerWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An "important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom...
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For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaThe remarkable story of how confession became a defining rite for American Catholics--and then, beginning in the 1970s, all but disappeared. For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting through him God's forgiveness. The sacrament served...
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Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's ReligionsThis classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditionsAuthor: Huston SmithPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 10/09/1992Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.47dISBN: 9780062507877About the AuthorSmith, Huston: - Huston Smith is internationally known and revered as the...
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America ModernFlapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More...
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Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of BrothersFans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty...
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Fate Is the HunterErnest K. Gann's classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. "Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr. Gann is truly...
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Fantastic Failures: True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down FirstEven the most well-known people have struggled to succeed! Find out what they learned and how they turned their failures into triumphs with this engaging and youthful guide on how to succeed long term. There is a lot of pressure in today's society to...
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi EuropeSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl, spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials recruit for the Hitler Youth. Simone's family refuses to heil Hitler as Germany's savior. They are Jehovah's...
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet GenerationSoviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet...
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways...
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Elvis PresleyIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Elvis, the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Elvis was born into poverty in North Mississippi, a place where opportunities were a rare thing to see. Still,...
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Elizabeth Seton: American SaintFrom socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O'Donnell's richly textured new biography.... A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.― Wall Street JournalIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton,...
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W....
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Dorothea Lange: Seeing PeopleAn expansive look at portraiture, identity, and inequality as seen in Dorothea Lange's iconic photographs Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, "important and useful." Her decades-long investigation of how photography could articulate people's core values and sense of...
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Divination: Elements of WisdomHow did the Oracle of Delphi obtain her prophecies? Can you access information just by holding an object? Are itches actually messages? Is it really possible to read the future in the bottom of a teacup? In this condensed book, experienced seer Jewels Rocka...
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