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Deirdre Jackson Offers An Original And Engaging Look At Medieval Spirituality, Whilst Demonstrating That Miracle Tales Are By No Means The Preserve Of The P...

With over 300 full-color photographs, this is the first fully illustrated book devoted to Christian houses of worship in Egypt. The text incorporates the la...

Nature Noir is the intensely original story—part Edward Abbey, part James Ellroy—of Jordan Fisher Smith's fourteen years as a park ranger on forty-eight...

National Bestseller Throughout Her Groundbreaking Career In Business And Politics, Hurricane Hazel Mccallion Saw It All. In 1978, She Defeated A Popular Inc...

Stories of the evolution of Willowdale from its earliest acquisition of land to today’s urban environment. In 1855, Willowdale’s post office opened in Jac...

Robin W. Winks, John E. Talbott. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 148-161) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and p...

Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached abo...

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance is guide to a colorful and significant era in African-American history. The book includes an introduction; A-to-Z ent...

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordi...

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of th...

Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book...

From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today’s Africa From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African cou...

The summer of 1967 turned out to be one of the most exciting – and improbable – seasons in the history of baseball. Dubbed “The Impossible Dream,” t...

“This is a book of passion, a combination of personal philosophy, recent sociological studies, and history to produce a sweeping answer to ‘the German ...

"The worship of the Christian community, properly understood and done, leads worshipers to act out in their lives the love of God, which is at the heart of ...

This lavishly illustrated historical guide to Westminster Abbey is a highly readable account of this great institution, which is central to the long history...

modern City-dwellers Suffer Their Share Of Unpleasant Experiences—traffic Jams, Noisy Neighbors, Pollution, Food Scares—but Urban Nuisances Of The Past Ex...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

The decade of the 1850s brought the United states exceptional growth and prosperity. the population increased by 35 per cent, to more than 31 million. Railr...

Sunnyside Yard was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of its massive New York Extension, the centerpiece of which was Pennsylvania Station in the he...

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of ur...

All Nations Make Themselves Up As They Go Along, But Not All Make Themselves Up In The Same Way. In This Study, Alon Confino Explores How Germans Turned Nat...

Chronicles How America's Progressive Era War On Smallpox Sparked One Of The Twentieth Century's Leading Civil Liberties Battles, Describing The Views And Ta...

A History Of Spaces Provides An Essential Insight Into The Practices And Ideas Of Maps And Map-making. It Draws On A Wide Range Of Social Theorists And Theo...

Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to in...

This Is The Second In The Comprehensive Ten-volume Germany And The Second World War. The Five Volumes So Far Published In German Take The Story To The End O...

This collection of essays details the author's mother's experiences during her 1904 trek to North Dakota, and her life as a landowner, wife, and motherCateg...

Leadership in Unknown Waters invites organizational leaders and their teams to engage powerful questions amidst ambiguity and uncertainty as they move from ...

The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Dollinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed...

The most learner-centered and assessment-driven text available. Ciccarelli/White, Psychology, 3/e is praised for a very engaging writing style, comprehensiv...

From the author of the #1 bestselling Paris 1919, a revealing portrait of Englishwomen in colonial IndiaDuring Britain's rule of India, the "Raj women" wer...

In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond A...

A powerful true story of love, loss and a family torn apart\A vivid, heart-warming story of survivalAnnie Austin’s childhood ends at the age of twelve, wh...

This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through dur...

The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era,...

What Was History? -- What Is History? -- Problems Of Historical Knowledge; Historicism, Presentism, And The Writing Of History -- Cross-pollination -- Varie...

Review"The simple, unadorned narrative is gripping and makes its point all the more forcefully because of its lack of pretension." -- Karen Armstrong, autho...

In this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great...

John Vanvorden--the Flying Dutchman--is a Vietnam pilot and one of the rugged few who know the danger and thrill of combat while piloting the U.S. Army's UH...

Right Next To The Colosseum In Rome Stands The Arch Of Constantine. Completed Ad 312-315, It Was Built To Celebrate Ten Years Of The Emperor Constantine's R...

"You can't let people be treated in an inhuman way around you. . . . Otherwise you start to become inhuman." So speaks rescuer Hetty Voûte in The Heart H...

Beautifully bound book with gilded design on front cover and matching slip case. Civilization by Kenneth Clark, published by the prestigious Folio Society, ...

Tells the stories of Deborah, Joshua, Samson, David Ben-Gurion, and the Israeli Defence Forces's raid on Entebbe.Categories: History Middle EastIsrael &...

In this deeply engaging oral history, Doug Williams, Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, recounts the history of the Michi...

David Johnston.Categories: Science & MathEvolution

Desert Storm was a war like no other. Fought with weapons of a sophistication beyond anything previously displayed in battle against a ruthless dictator who...

A Uniquely Personal Yet Deeply Informed Exploration Of The Hidden History Of Class In American Life From The Decks Of The Mayflower Straight Through To Dona...