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Macmillan Illustrates How Dangerous History Can Be In The Hands Of Nationalistic Or Religious Or Ethnic Leaders Who Use It To Foster A Sense Of Grievance An...

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Do you want to know how Canada became one of the richest nations on Earth? Read about the 50 most important events in Canadian History, from the first Settl...

The Shocking True Story Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Prolific Female Serial Killers.--book Jacket. Belle Gunness Engaged In Wholesale Slaughter, P...

The Business Of L'oreal Is Beauty. It Is The World's Largest Cosmetics Firm. This Startling Book Shows The Other Face Of Beauty. It Is The Story Of How This...

Introduction: Kossovo Day -- History: War By Other Means -- Slobodan. Milosevic@gov.yu -- Phantom State -- Homeland Calling -- Friends From The Woods -- Quo...

the Tragedies Of Bosnia And Kosovo Are Often Explained Away As The Unchangeable Legacy Of Centuries-old Hatreds. In This Richly Detailed, Expertly Balance...

Covering A Vast Area, From The Home Front To Nazi Europe And Japan, Lyn Smith Has Compiled A Richly Diverse And Moving Collection Of Testimonies, Which Reve...

National Geographic The Covers is the definitive cover collection from the world's most beloved magazine. The magazine with the famous yellow border has be...

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illumin...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

Discusses The Works Of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, And Emily Dickinson. Pt. 1. Toward A Feminist Poetics: The Q...

Now completely revised and updated, this new edition of the essential consumer guide to wine features all the most current information for today’s wine la...

Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman - and indeed one of the most famous people - ever to have lived. In this biography, Adrian Goldsworthy tel...

In This Book Arthur Manuel And Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Challenge Virtually Everything That Non-indigenous Canadians Believe About Their Relationship W...

David Plowden.Categories: History United StatesGeneral

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…m...

A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective. In March of 1943, Scott Chantle...

The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that i...

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the sta...

A visual and informative guide to one of the longest and most controversial wars in American history, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitne...

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial Congo With contributions from celebrated authors...

from An Award-winning Historian, A Stirring (and Timely) Narrative History Of American Labor From The Dawn Of The Industrial Age To The Present Day. From...

Paris, 1933. Three Contemporaries Meet Over Apricot Cocktails At The Bec-de-gaz Bar On The Rue Montparnasse-- And Ignite A Movement, Creating An Entirely Ne...

segal, Who Wrote This To Supplement His the Black Diaspora, Is A Cultural Historian, Not A Specialist In Islamic History. He Is An Authority On The Subject...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.â...

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great histori...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the ep...

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular me...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

How One Of Canada's Greatest Natural Disasters Has Been Remembered And Forgotten.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

One of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process o...

Provides An Account Of One Of The Greatest National Disasters The United States Has Ever Experienced And Its ConsequencesCategories: Science & Math Natu...

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the...

Susan Pryke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95) And Index.Categories: Travel Canada ProvincesOntario

Amin MaaloufCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

Fosco Maraini Visited Tibet In 1937 And Again In 1948. In 1951 He Published Secret Tibet, An Account That Was A Synthesis Of The Two Journeys. After An Inte...

Discusses The Conspiracy Of Religious Extremists In The Holy Land And Their Efforts To Bring About The End Of The World In Our Time. Taking The Temple -- Th...

Tom Standage. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [214]-217) And Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering ReferenceHistory

Along the way, Kate Colquhoun asks and answers a fascinating range of questions from the weighty to the lighthearted. Did the Romans use pepper? How did the...

This stimulating book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the sec...

A Modern Mystic Speaks Christina Gallagher, a humble County Mayo housewife, is a prophetic figure for one times. She speaks about the warnings she has rec...

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. ...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beg...

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...