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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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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and RomeIn this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life under the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. All the historical and archaelogical evidence has been seamlessly pieced together to reconstruct the architectural wonders of these mightycivilizations. Re...
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Ken Burns's the Civil War: Historians RespondKen Burns's documentary The Civil War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. Indeed, forty million people saw it, more than the populations of the Union and the Confederacy combined. Newsweek praised it as "a stunning television documentary." For a...
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Trees in the Mist: Discovering a family tree and a story hidden in the mist of time.Trees in the Mist is a five-part novel about a family line that begins with the young man, John Dowling, coming to America in the mid-1700s bringing his father's flintlock musket. He finds himself along the northern coast of Maine where he meets up...
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On the IncarnationGreek text of Athanasius' On the Incarnation along with notes and introduction in English.Author: Athanasius Archbishop of AlexandriaPublisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersPublished: 01/05/2022Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9781666735710
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Becoming a University: The Story of UpikePicking up where Pikeville College Looks to the Hills by Alice Kinder left off, Becoming a University - The Story of UPIKE tracks UPIKE's history from 1989 to 2021. From starting a medical school to becoming a university and establishing Kentucky's only optometry school,...
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Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireCandid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three floors housed the Triangle Waist Company, a...
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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810, Volume 6Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown's non-novelistic writings-letters, political pamphlets,...
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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin DadaGrotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals...
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Reporting the Siege of SarajevoThe Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad. Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo provides the first detailed account of the reporting...
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Origen of Alexandria: Master Theologian of the Early ChurchOrigen of Alexandria is the most influential thinker and writer of the Christian church after John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. This book charts his momentous impact on the structures, mindset, and doctrines of Christianity, from the third century when he wrote to...
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The Vatican and Permanent NeutralityThe essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely...
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How Christianity Built Western CivilizationToday, the voices from the secular left are hard at work removing any trace of religion from government and the law. Meanwhile, secular historians have successfully limited Christianity's contribution in history to the Crusades and Inquisitions; as if that is all Christians have to...
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The Blizzard of '78New England was knocked to its knees on February 6th and 7th, 1978, by the incredible snow and wind referred to locally as the worst storm of the century, and this history combines stunning photographs with riveting text to reawaken memories of the "Blizzard...
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Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & WorkFew twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920-1998) was among them. The first book on Reid by an Indigenous scholar details his incredible journey to becoming one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our...
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Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond & BeyondEdgar Allan Poe has had a busy afterlife.The author of The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart might have died back in 1849, but some claim that did not stop him from composing poetry for another four decades. Others say he still makes appearances in...
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A Brief Commentary on the ApocalypseA Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse is a classic religious text by Sylvester Bliss that deals with the subjectsof bible interpretation and and bible criticism and revelation. This great old book features this passage: "The Apocalypse should be regarded as a peculiarly interesting portion...
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The Gospel of BuddhaThe Gospel of Buddha is a classic religious studies text by Paul Carus that focuses on the life and teachings of the Gautama Buddha and contains this passage: "Lest the fundamental idea of the Buddha's doctrines be misunderstood, the reader is warned to take...
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Burden-sharing in NATOThis book, first published in 1983, analyses the debate around burden-sharing in NATO, where the main issue is the distribution amongst the allies of the burden of maintaining the security arrangement. This raises problems of defining, measuring and comparing the defence efforts of the...
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New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese AmericaStrong, bold, and vivacious--Japanese American young women were leaders and heroines of the Roaring Twenties. Controversial to the male immigrant elite for their rebellion against gender norms, these women made indelible changes in the community, including expanding sexual freedoms, redefining women's roles in public...
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The Geography of Religious and Confessional Structures in the Crown of the Polish Kingdom in the Second Half of the Eighteenth CenturyThe book minutely depicts the territorial organization of religions and confessions in the Crown part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the spatial range and variety of the communities in the region, which was a...
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