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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Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 13In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga's alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power--including the shogun's seat! In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to...
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The Warfare Between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't DieWhy is the idea of conflict between science and religion so popular in the public imagination?The "conflict thesis"--the idea that an inevitable and irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion--has long been part of the popular imagination. In The Warfare between Science and Religion,...
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The Problem with Pilots: How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined FlightAn illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology.As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, inefficient, and dangerous. They asphyxiated or got the bends at high altitudes; they fainted...
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Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in AmericaThe unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and...
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Medicine and Religion: A Historical IntroductionMedicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in...
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On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern WorldLasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic life--which includes despair.In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program...
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Lacrosse: A History of the GameNorth America's Indian peoples have always viewed competitive sport as something more than a pastime. The northeastern Indians' ball-and-stick game that would become lacrosse served both symbolic and practical functions-preparing young men for war, providing an arena for tribes to strengthen alliances or settle...
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Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker"Edgar Huntly", an early American novel by Charles Brockden Brown, is the story of its title character, who upon learning of the death of the brother of his friend and love interest, Mary Waldegrave, visits the place of her brother's death. There he discovers...
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A Beginner's Handbook to Traditional Native American BeadworkThis book is designed to help the beginning or novice beadworker explore the art of traditional Native American beadwork and guide them through their initial projects. While many beadwork craft books stress more contemporary beading applications, this volume emphasizes the techniques and materials necessary...
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American Food: A Not-So-Serious HistoryA clever and whimsical illustrated history of 26 iconic American foods, from Ambrosia to Zucchini Bread This captivating and surprising tour of America's culinary canon celebrates the variety, charm, and occasionally dubious lore of the foods we love to eat, as well as the...
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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of LibertyPublished on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers readers a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources, archival images,...
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Kava in the Blood: A Personal & Political Memoir from the Heart of Fiji"The literary device of juxtaposing the story of the Fiji coup against autobiographical reminiscences of a Fiji background works very well. This is an excellent story, beautifully written and skillfully mixing the personal with the political .. The EH McCormick Award for the Best...
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The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001A definitive history of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement and an intriguing reference for persons outside the movement, The Century of the Holy Spirit details the miraculous story of Pentecostal/Charismatic growth--in the U.S. and around the world. This book features five chapters by the...
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The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of PigsA "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961. At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F....
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The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient CeltsEarly in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to...
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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern DiseaseAm I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets--doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent...
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGBThe assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Sasha Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim...
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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk about the Game They LovedFormer Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. Whitey Ford, Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, Bill Rigney, and Ralph Branca tell stories about baseball in New...
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Seeking the CureA timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow's Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works,...
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Selling Your Father's Bones: America's 140-Year War Against the Nez Perce TribePart historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys in the history of the American West. The year 1877 bore witness to a broken promise. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Perce band...
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