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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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Crisis in the West: The Attempt to Destroy Christian CivilizationDivine Providence has made western civilization preeminent in the world. By making western civilization preeminent in the world God has provided for the dissemination of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the four corners of the globe. Western civilization grew out of the achievements...
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Scarab Symbolism of the Ancient WorldA scarabaeus symbol embodied an elevated religious idea in ancient Egypt, encompassing the Soul's future life, its resurrection from the grave, and most likely its reward or punishment in the next life, depending on its conduct.From the earliest historical knowledge about Ancient Egypt, scarabaeus...
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Portrait of MyselfThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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From Beaver Creek to HanoiFrom Beaver Creek to Hanoi: A Mother's Quest to Rescue Her Son is a story of a resolute woman who over the course of three years worked zealously to get her son, a fighter pilot shot down during a bombing raid, out of a...
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What Was World War I?This compelling addition to the What Was? series covers what was supposed to be "the war to end all wars" but tragically wasn't. In 1914, the assassination of an Austrian archduke set off a disastrous four-year-long conflict involving dozens of countries with battles taking...
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The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime ReligionThe Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites...
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Volpone: Revised EditionThe sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's satire....
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A Bachelors Cupboard; Containing Crumbs Culled From The Cupboards Of The Great UnweddedThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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The Hexagon of HeresyHave you ever wondered how we got here? Have you ever wondered how Western civilization arrived at the brink of suicide? How did a thoroughly Christian culture give rise to the very ideas that seek to kill it? Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman...
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Murphy's Mission: Colin Murphy - Football Adventures from Sincil Bank to SaigonMurphy's Mission. Colin Murphy - Football Adventures from Sincil Bank to Saigon is a rollercoaster ride through the life story of a journeyman, football manager, legend, and self-styled bard of the beautiful game.From a career with 15 different football clubs from the 1970s to...
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The Metamorphoses of Power: Violence, Warlords, Aḳıncıs and the Early Ottomans (1300-1450)Controversial scholarly debates around the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire in the last century are not only rooted in the scarcity or heterogeneity of sources, but also in the mentalities and ideologies that canonised thought paradigms. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach at the...
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Heróis da Igreja - Vol. 4 - A Era Moderna: Grandes nomes da história do cristianismoA Heróis da Igreja - A Era Moderna apresenta um período singular da história da Igreja, fruto dos desafios e das oportunidades deixados pela modernidade. Os escritos buscam responder a questões sobre como conciliar ou questionar o pensamento moderno à luz da tradição cristã,...
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's EnduranceThe extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, the ship that gave its name to the world's most famous survival epic, told by the man who led the search.On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway...
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What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's DinnerFor readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled...
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Dick Bong: Ace of AcesDuring World War II, Major Richard "Dick" Ira Bong's legendary exploits at the helm of his P-38 Lightning made him a household name. Bong received the Medal of Honor for his exploits of downing 40 enemy Japanese planes in the Southwestern Pacific. His tally...
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The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover CountryAs a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places...
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Nursing and Midwifery in the Poor-Law Unions of Borrisokane & Nenagh, 1882-1922This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh in Co. Tipperary between 1882 and 1922. It differentiates between trained and untrained nurses and midwives, examines how...
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Coral Sea Calling: Pioneer Tales of Australia's Northern WatersThe treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted...
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They Said No to WarThe decision to go to war is the most momentous action an American president can take. Sending young men and women into combat weighs heavily on the Commander in Chief, as it does on the Congress, which must authorize war. This book is about...
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Les Avions de CombatText in FrenchVitrine de la puissance d'un État, l'avion de combat constitue un des outils les plus redoutables de l'arsenal militaire moderne. Système d'armes ultra-performant, il se présente comme une plateforme flexible, réactive et autonome capable de tenir un rythme opérationnel élevé dans une...
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