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There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university stud...

Introduction -- Area 1 Killarney To Strawberry Island -- Area 2 Manitoulin Island's North Shore -- Area 3 Bay Of Islands To Blind River -- Area 4 Western No...

Now in paperback, updated with a new final chapter!Lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed, impeccably researched, and wonderfully written, Hockey: A Peo...

For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an as...

Saul, John RalstonCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Political ScienceHistory & Theory International & World Po...

Arno Press/Simon & Schuster, 1940. Glossy pictorial covers. Superb advertisments etc. Printed on newsprint. Reprinted 1976. Large Format Softcover. Illu...

The Author Of Reclaiming The Gods And The Isle Of Avalon Now Details The Fascinating Significance Of The Design Of The U.s. Capital. Nicholas R. Mann. Inclu...

Hardcover book with dust jacket, edited by Regine Schulz and Matias Seidel, Publication by Konemann, first English language edition. It has 540 pages fully ...

As Knowledge Of Exotic Languages Became Important For Colonial Power, Linguistic Scholarship Became A Crucial Contributing Element To Colonial Regimes. Ling...

The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education Is A Must Read For Anyone Looking For A Guide To Both The Theory And Practice Of What It Means To Teach Histor...

Collection Of Essays By ... Experts On What The New Global Elite Needs To Know About Modern India-- Reimagining -- Politics & Policy -- Business & T...

Prepared by Carol Berkin of Baruch College, City University of New York and Betty Anderson of Boston University. This book teaches students both basic and h...

SACRED SITES OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR examines a number of sacred megalithic sites such as Stonehenge and Rennes-le-Chateau, revealing the astronomical signi...

Light On Stone Offers A Visit To The New Greek Galleries At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Since 1999 The Museum's Collection Of Classical Marble Sculpture...

A Concise Edition with clear connections, comparisons, and sources in every chapter. The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, World...

The Founder Of Washington Monthly Describes The Drastic And Negative Changes Occurring In Washington, D.c., That Are Driving The Economic Divide And Culture...

Certain conjunctions of time and place exert a special fascination--Paris in the twenties, turn-of-the-century Vienna, Weimar Berlin. Tokyo in the years bet...

With the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for commerce and trade, overtaking its older rival, St. Louis. The first t...

Examines the role of the air force in World War II, including the nonstop bombing over Germany and the slow island by island battles in the Pacific.Categori...

Every year hundreds of human skeletal remains are brought to the surface by engineering works, quarrying or planned archaeological exploration. These remain...

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China...

Peter Laslett. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 204-209.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGerontology

Ben Dunkelman grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in Toronto. Kicked out of several schools for being a hell-raiser, he was sent off to Europe and the Middle...

A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strau...

Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified position the German army had yet thrown into the Al...

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the ...

This concise and comprehensive text presents a balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors i...

It may be that the developers, residents, and corporate owners of the new American village have gotten exactly what they want. Like all such rare complete ...

Road to Valouris the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatestcomeback in Tour de France history and, between his...

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth ...

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From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.In this captivating c...

The Naval War of 1812 Chatham Pictorial Histories Hardcover Caxton EditionsCategories: History EuropeGreat Britain

A historical atlas about people and ideas. Its themes range from exploration, colonization, wars, and political movements to issues such as family and gende...

A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaher...

The stirring true story of a girl who survived the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia retraces her steps from the forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in...

In Thomas Dixon's Novel That Became The Film The Birth Of A Nation, The Scalawag - A White Southerner Who Supported Congressional Reconstruction And The Rep...

Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throu...

With a poet’s clear eye and a journalist’s curiosity about how a city works, Dan Barry shows us New York as no other writer has seen it.Evocative, intimate,...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of S...

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of...

Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, ...

This is the story of Canada's greatest destroyer, the aggressive and hard-hitting Haida. She is Canada's most decorated warship, winning honours in the Arct...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

Book by Whitaker, Denis; Whitaker, Shelagh D.Categories: History MilitaryWorld War II

First Hand Accounts From Early To Mid-eighties Canadian Headbanger And Rocker Bands Of Their Lifestyles And Struggles To Obtain Record Deals. Sean Kelly. In...

A Book About The Remarkable Life Of Elsie Macgill Who Achieved Many Firsts In Science And Engineering At A Time When Women Were Considered To Be Inferior In...