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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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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of ScienceThe gripping, entertaining, and vividly-told narrative of a radical discovery that sent shockwaves through the scientific community and forever changed the way we understand the world. Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and...
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern WorldThomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and...
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKThe assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner...
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Paris in Mind: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes, from Saul Bellow to David Sedaris: Three Centuries of Americans Writing about Thei"Paris is a moveable feast," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy of the Can-Can. Sylvia Beach recalls the excitement of...
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The Good Women of China: Hidden VoicesWhen Deng Xiaoping s efforts to open up China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of AfricaIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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The Translation of Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Baqarah English EditionThe Translation also The Meaning of Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Baqarah from The Holy Quran In English Languange Color Version. Sarat al-Fatiḥah is the first chapter (surah) of the Quran. Its seven verses (ayat) are a prayer for the guidance, lordship and mercy of...
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US Constitution: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and AmendmentsThis book contains the three most pivotal documents in American history, in easy-to-read large print: The United States Declaration of Independence, adopted at the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia in July 1776. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the collective term...
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Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor - a Classic Treatise of Spiritual and Philosophical Self-Reflection, dating to 1642 (HardcoveReligio Medici, the timeless book of personal contemplations by renowned polymath Sir Thomas Browne, is presented here complete. Written by Browne during the 1640s as a means of profiling his psyche in a spiritual testament to the divine, Religio Medici - in English, Religion...
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Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt RaidMartin Caidin's Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid tells of the United States Air Force's massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany's industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses -...
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Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the PacificSink 'Em All by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the U.S. Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War 2, is the exhaustive and definitive account of submarine warfare between the US and Japanese 1942-45. Lockwood's intricate narrative is the breathless story...
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L'avareThis 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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Histoire de la Ville de Poissy Depuis ses Origines Jusqu'a nos JoursThis 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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Philosophy of Education: Thinking and Learning Through History and PracticeAssuming no background knowledge of philosophy, John Ryder's introductory text surveys canonical writings and contemporary applications to inform future teachers' practice of systematic philosophy of education. Exposing readers to the philosophies that built Western education, the book welcomes the development of alternate approaches through...
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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American LifeBeginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life tells a...
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The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of ScotsThe Walsingham Gambit provides the reader with a new and unique insight into the hidden history associated with the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots. This hidden history is revealed in great detail by R. Kent Tiernan, who describes how the English deception planners...
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On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were ThereThe first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes in modern Irish history *** In January 1972, a peaceful civil rights march in Northern Ireland ended in bloodshed. Troops from Britain's 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on marchers, leaving 13...
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Luther, Barth, and Movements of Theological Renewal (1918-1933)The essays contained in this book originated as lectures at an international conference held in Princeton organized by Christine Helmer (Northwestern) and the editors of this book. This book itself illuminates in a fresh way the formation, cross-fertilization, break-up, and re-organization of movements of...
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The TalmudAuthor: Arsène DarmesteterPublisher: Fv EditionsPublished: 03/04/2021Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9791029911958This title is not returnable
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The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of Us PowerTwo of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan.Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy--not only of authority, but also of explanations of what...
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