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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Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus (Foiled Pocket Journal)New title in the Flame Tree Pocket Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production and featuring a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. Perfect for personal use, handbags and make a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE...
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Sanctified by the Spirit: John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical CounselingBiblical counselor Colin R. McCulloch retrieves John Owen's theology of Trinitarian sanctification to address modern concerns in counseling methodology. McCulloch examines two divergent approaches to sanctification within the biblical counseling movement, suggesting that Owen's emphasis on Spirit-infused habitual grace provides a more holistic vision...
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Sailing on the Mayflower: A This or That DebateIn September 1620, 102 brave travelers and their crew stepped upon a ship called the Mayflower in England. Most were members of a religious group now known as the Pilgrims. They were bound for North America to start a new life. They endured many...
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Saddam: His Rise and FallInsightful, penetrating, and shocking, the defining biography of Iraq's deposed tyrant Drawing on an unparalleled network of sources, contacts, and firsthand testimonies, Con Coughlin takes us to the center of Saddam Hussein's complex, bewildering regime -- and beyond. Fully updated and revised, Saddam: His...
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Sage Spirit - Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic ExperienceSalvia divinorum is a unique and profoundly powerful visionary herb from the Mazatec region of Mexico. Now widely available in the western world via the internet, but still little understood, this legal entheogen is becoming ever more popular among those who follow the shamanic...
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Rural Education in America: What Works for Our Students, Teachers, and CommunitiesRural Education in America provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families. Written by educators who grew up...
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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating OrganThe fascinating--and often secret--history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut. The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy, often overzealous organ, deliberating on the...
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Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last KingBeginning its narrative in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile, this book tells the colourful story of this Balkan country's first and only monarch. The road to becoming Europe's youngest president in 1925 and...
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Robert RymanA comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work This remarkable volume, featuring new photography and original essays by a formidable array of scholars and curators, is the most expansive and thorough investigation of the work of American painter...
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Rewilding the Urban Frontier: River Conservation in the AnthropoceneMore so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature. Once a necessity for the development of civilization, by the twentieth century America's rivers became neglected and abused, channelized, dammed, and filled with sewage and toxic waste. While acknowledging the profound...
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Revisiting Ethnicity and Culture in US HistoryIn this introduction to Ethnic Studies for teens, parents, and teachers, readers will learn about the counternarratives that are generally excluded from most American History books. Where's the critical hope? Most textbooks that cover U.S. History from the perspective of Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian...
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[Relation of the Voyages, Discoveries, and Death, of Father James Marquette, and the Subsequent Voyages of Father Claudius AllouezThis 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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Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final FrontierSpace Race 2.0 has started, and the winner-America or Communist China-will define the future of humanity.The space race was a critical determining factor in the Cold War. After its Sputnik miracle, the Soviets' loss of the race to the Moon undermined the international mystique...
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Reading MapsA map is an easy way to discover where things are, no matter where somebody may be in the world! A map is a drawing of all or part of Earth's surface, and it may show visible features, such as rivers, forests, buildings, and...
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Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of BritianDouglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime. After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, he fought his way back into the cockpit of a Spitfire to become one of...
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Rachel's War: The Story of an Australian Wwi NurseGrowing up on a farm in country Victoria, all Rachel wants is to help people. When war comes, she travels to distant Europe and the Middle East, working tirelessly to care for wounded and sick soldiers from the battlefields of Gallipoli and the Western...
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Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to NowSubverting its former role as a primarily preparatory medium, drawing is enjoying a resurgence among contemporary artists and students. Pushing paper examines why drawing has not only endured, but continues to thrive as an artistic expression.56 works, produced between the 1970s and the present...
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Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book ImperialismWinner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular--and most unfiltered--entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of...
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Pug, ' 'Fireball, ' and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, IowaBaseball fans in general and Chicago Cub fans in particular will enjoy author Steve Dunn's account of the 116-year history of professional baseball in Des Moines, Iowa. 'Pug, ' 'Fireball, ' and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa, describes the...
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Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga ReservationPricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of the...
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