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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Lightning Through the Clouds: ?Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle EastLightning through the Clouds is the first English-language life-and-times biography of 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the region. A Syrian-born, Egyptian-educated cleric, he went from the battlefields of World War I to join...
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Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern IranHonorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century,...
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A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human SystemHumanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social...
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Blood, Booze and Whores: The History of Salida, ColoradoThe 'Salida Sam' Historical Book Series focuses almost exclusively on happenings inside the city limits of Salida, Colorado. Volume 1 covers the town's beginnings in May 1880 through the end of 1881. Although shared through the journal of a fictional character, the stories are...
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Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People: The Folk Stories, Myths and Ballads of the Basque CountryThe myths and legends of the Basque peoples are lively adventures which shed insight on the ancient culture and spiritual traditions unique to the Basque country.Historically, the legends of the Basque region were treated as insignificant by scholars of literature and readers. Yet Mariana...
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Indian Fights and Fighters: An Illustrated History of the Wars with the Native Americans - the Rough Riders, Little Big Horn, General Custer's CamThis history concerns the wars with the Native Americans, as the United States expanded westward and sought to exert its control over greater portions of North America.The hostilities narrated include some of the most famous actions such as the campaign of Little Big Horn,...
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Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World; its Mythology and Hieroglyphs - Both Volumes in OneGerald Massey's masterwork is presented to readers anew in this splendid new edition, which combines all twelve books plus the appendix into a single volume.A voracious student of Ancient Egypt, Massey's enquiries deepened and widened as years went by. This work, standing at over...
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Definite Medication: Containing Therapeutic Facts Gleaned from Forty Years Practice - Homeopathic Medicine and Herbal RemediesEli G. Jones, a doctor who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, describes a variety of remedies he claims work to cure ailments both minor and serious.Most of the methods described by Eli G. Jones generally involve herbal remedies or homoeopathy,...
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Gustav Klimt Set of 3 Mini NotebooksThe Gustav Klimt Set of 3 Mini Notebooks features a collection of three mini, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: The Kiss, Fulfilment and Adele Bloch-Bauer I. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they...
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Reinhold NiebuhrThe Modern Christian Revolutionaries series from James Clarke & Co. LTD. is designed for laymen to easily learn about important modern historical figures in Christianity.Author: D. R. DaviesPublisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersPublished: 09/19/2019Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781532693571
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Gearhead at Large: A Backroad Tour of Automotive History and the Old Car HobbyA popular feature in Antique Automobile magazine, Steven Rossi's columns open up the world of old cars, transporting readers to earlier times from the age of horseless carriages through the evolution of cars and car culture. This compilation from a decade's writings draws on...
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Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in VietnamAs a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance in OH-6 aircraft (a.k.a. Light Observation Helicopter or Loach) near the Cambodian border....
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Nkjv, Thinline Bible, Leathersoft, Black, Thumb Indexed, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James VersionA perfectly-sized NKJV Bible that's easy to read and lightweight to take with you wherever you go.With a variety of unique and traditional cover designs available, this Bible is beautiful inside and out. Fitting most purses, laptop bags, and glove boxes, the NKJV Value...
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The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of SustainabilityA wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first proposed by Paul Crutzen...
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Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection (Volume I)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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Cuentos Para Niños Que Se Atreven a Ser Diferentes 2 / Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2 = Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2El fenómeno bestseller internacional está de vuelta con más historias reales, brillantes e inspiradoras de niños que demuestran que ser vulnerables no es debilidad, que ser de mente abierta es genial, y que realmente está bien ser diferente. Qué tienen en común el escritor...
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of PaperworkSince the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds -- radical and reactionary, professional and amateur -- have been complaining about "bureaucracy." But what, exactly, is all this complaining about? The Demon of Writing is a critical history and theory of...
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Strike!Jeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks,...
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Geología Física Y Geología Histórica De SudaméricaEste libro tiene el objetivo de dar una introducci n a los principios y conceptos b sicos de la geolog a, para todos aquellos que est n interesados en aprender sobre todos los procesos que formaron y dieron forma a la Tierra, desde su...
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In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers PartyA collection of letters and essays from 1939 through 1940 by a central leader of the Russian Revolution, responding to bourgeois public opinion during the period before US entry into WWII. First published in 1942, two years after he was murdered, this fourth edition...
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