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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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Socrates in Love: The Making of a PhilosopherAn innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers.Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the foundations of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end...
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Chronicles of Avonlea, in Which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea Plays Some Part ..Chronicles of Avonlea' - A collection of short stories set in the sweet and beautiful town of Avonlea, where a certain 'Anne of Green Gables' grew up. In these twelve magical tales we find new characters to get aquainted with and new adventures to...
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La Necropoli di Capestrano, I: Scavi d'Ercole 2003-2009La necropoli di Capestrano (AQ), celebre per la famosa statua di guerriero, rappresenta il sito archeologico pi noto dell'et preromana dell'Italia medio-adriatica. Fin dal 1934 gli scavi archeologici hanno scoperto una complessa area funeraria databile al periodo tra VIII sec. a.C. e gli inizi...
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History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)The Historia Brittonum, or the History of the Britons, is a historical work that was first written sometime shortly after AD 833, and exists in several recensions of varying difference. It purports to relate the history of the Brythonic inhabitants of Britain from earliest...
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The AztecsThe Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs. A thorough examination of Aztec origins and civilization including religion, science, and thought Incorporates the latest archaeological excavations and research into...
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African American Voices 4eA succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by...
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Ancient Greece from Homer to AWith fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great. New translations of original sources are contextualized by insightful introductions and annotations Includes a range of literary, artistic...
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Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern EuropeFew scholars have provided as much insight into the struggle of leaders, ideas, and policies as Paul W. Schroeder. Constantly challenging conventional views, and drawing upon a masterly command of the sources and literature, Schroeder provides new answers to old questions about international history...
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The History of Central AmericaCentral America is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, with sweeping panoramic vistas of tropical vegetation, towering mountains, and striking ethnic and racial diversity. This tropical paradise has a history as diverse as its people and cultures. Pearcy begins with the Maya in...
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Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf HitlerDID HITLER--CODE NAME "GREY WOLF"--REALLY DIE IN 1945? In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führers escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with...
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Truth about Forgiveness"The greatest measuring rod of love in the life of a Christian may be forgiveness, because God showed His love to us in terms of forgiveness." ?John MacArthurDoes anyone really want to forgive? Or admit that we need forgiveness? Whether we're giving or receiving,...
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Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on TerrorRobert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked on a globe-spanning odyssey to penetrate and...
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My Father's Country: The Story of a German FamilyIn this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century. On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was...
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Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan ShepardThe definitive biography of Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, with a new Foreword by Chris Kraft "One of the finest books ever written about the space program."--Homer Hickan, author of Rocket Boys "A wonderful and gripping biography . . . meticulously reported...
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American EnlightenmentsIn an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its...
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Defining the WindDefining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man's crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator, Sir Francis Beaufort. It's as much about the language we use...
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Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth CenturyJohn Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice's...
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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-QaedaIn this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the...
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The art of Boxing. By Daniel Mendoza, P.PThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Looking Unto Jesus, a View of the Everlasting Gospel: Or, the Soul's Eying of Jesus, as Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation From First to LaThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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