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Report copyright infringementby Moses (Ancient Jewish Tradition) (Author), Tim Zengerink (Translator)What if there was a text that illuminated the mysteries of sacred history, divine law, and God's covenant with humanity?The Book of Jubilees: A Timeless Chronicle of Sacred History and Divine Law presents a modern translation of one of the most fascinating works of ancient Jewish tradition. Attributed to Moses, this text is said to have been revealed by angels, chronicling the events of the wo...

Thor: An Illustrated Guide to the Thunder God

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Report copyright infringementby L. Dean Lee (Author), The Saxon Storyteller (Illustrator)Learn more about Thor, the revered God of Thunder, and explore the wyrd world of Norse mythology with this beautifully illustrated guide as your companion. This is a culturally informed introduction to Thor, the hammer-wielding, storm-shaking, fiery-haired son of Odin, and one of the most prominent figures in all of Norse mythology and Nordic folklore. Discover who Thor is, what his origins as a deity ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mimi Pond (Author)Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on their family's well-documented upper class eccentricities: a ne'er do well would-be entrepreneur father; a stern, stiff-upper-lipped mother; a revolving door of gov...

When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

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Report copyright infringementby Ilise S. Carter (Author)Ghosts spoke. Women listened. Everything changed.It began with whispers in a dimly lit room. In the 1840s, the Fox Sisters--and the legions of mediums they inspired--ignited the Spiritualist movement that swept through Victorian parlors and presidential campaigns alike. Contacting the dead wasn't merely a parlor trick: It was a political statement, a declaration of self that still echoes. Séances attracted suffragists and scientists, ske...

Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society Volume 3

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Lewis (Author), Bryan Bonner (Author)For nearly three decades, the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society has investigated ghosts, demons, aliens, cryptids, and all manner of bizarre claims and happenings in Colorado and beyond. Combining historic and scientific research with a love of the weird and scary, they've researched and documented some of the best paranormal stories in the world. Now, Colorado's first and only forensic paranormal investigati...

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Report copyright infringementby Travis McHenry (Author)This is the ultimate guide to uncovering the hidden wisdom of the tarot, crafted by one of the foremost occultists of the modern era. Printed with special black and intense red ink, it features deluxe finishes and full-colour interiors showcasing over 300 illustrations. This book is not only a practical resource but also a stunning piece of art, making it the perfect coffee table book for anyone interested in exploring the mysteries of th...

The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter

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Report copyright infringementby George Bores (Author)In 1589, the German town of Bedburg witnessed one of history's most shocking trials. Peter Stump-accused of sorcery, murder, cannibalism, incest, and a 25-year reign of terror-confessed under torture to being a werewolf in league with the Devil. His chilling account, recorded in the 1590 pamphlet The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter, describes a magical girdle that transformed him into a ravenous wolf and a string of crimes steeped ...

A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Joyce P. Kaufman (Author)Now in a fully updated edition that considers the Trump administration and the election and formative period of the Biden administration, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the country to the present. Author BiographyJoyce P. Kaufman is professor emerita of political science at Whittier College. Her books include Introduction to International Relations: Theory and Pra...

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by St Augustine (Author), Marcus Dods (Translator)16 centuries ago, the greatest empire the world had ever seen, The Roman Empire, symbolically, with the sack of its capitol, the eternal city of Rome, died. It was the end of 1,000 years of civilization by the hands of barbarian hordes from Germania. Many Romans argued at the time that the Empire was crumbling because the ancient gods had been displaced by the now official-and dominant-Christian faith. The City of God is a rebuttal of this bel...

Stowe's Bible Astrology: The Bible Founded on Astrology

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Report copyright infringementby Lyman E. Stowe (Author)Stowe's Bible Astrology is a book written by Lyman E. Stowe that delves into the relationship between astrology and the Bible. The author argues that the Bible is founded on astrological principles, and provides evidence to support this claim. The book is divided into several sections, each of which explores a different aspect of this relationship.The first section provides an overview of astrology and its history, and explains how it was...

The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Klaassen (Author), Sharon Hubbs Wright (Author)In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop's Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William's older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The ...

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Report copyright infringementby Al-Biruni (Author), R. Ramsay Wright (Translator)The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology is a comprehensive guide to the practice of astrology, written by the renowned Persian scholar Al-Biruni. Originally composed in the 11th century, this influential work covers a wide range of topics related to the study of celestial bodies and their influence on human affairs.The book begins with an introduction to the basic principles of astrology, ...

Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought - Hardcover

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by Christopher Star (Author)How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world?What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of nature play in bringing about the end of the world? In Apocalypse and Golden Age, Christopher Star reveals the answers that Greek and Roman authors gave to these questions. The first large-scale investigation of the ...

21 Months a Captive: Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre (Annotated) - Paperback

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by James W. Parker (Author), Rachel Plummer (Author)This 2020 edition contains newly unearthed information about the participants. On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner.Among those captured was eleven year old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with h...

FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon - Hardcover

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by Sara Polak (Author)How was FDR's image constructed--by himself and others--as such a powerful icon in American memory?In polls of historians and political scientists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the top three American presidents. Roosevelt enjoyed an enormous political and cultural reach, one that stretched past his presidency and across the world. A grand narrative of Roosevelt's crucial role in the twentieth century persists: the notion that American ideology, embo...

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by Piers Bizony (Author)On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic roc...

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 - Paperback

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by William L. Shirer (Author), Gordon A. Craig (Foreword by)By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition.CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s--specifically those sections dealing with t...

Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Belanger (Author), Frank C. Grace (Photographer)Go legend hunting with explorer of the unexplained Jeff Belanger, visiting haunted places, where monsters lurk, and other roadside oddities. "Legends have always run deep in New England--thankfully, Jeff Belanger is here to uncover them and bring them to life. This collection of mysteries, secrets, and folklore from America's birthplace is as illuminating as it is fascinating." --Josh Gates, explorer, host o...

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Ball (Author)Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures are known to have experimented with chemical transformations: from dyes, glazes, and cosmetics in Bronze Age Egypt to life-extending elixirs pursued by scholars in ancient China and India. Many have also attem...

Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Roberts (Author)A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading gui...

Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970s

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Report copyright infringementby John Redhouse (Author), Melanie K. Yazzie (Editor), Jennifer Denetdale (Foreword by)A one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Red Power activists put everything on the line to organize mass movements and direct actions for Native liberation. It was an extraordinary time defi...

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Report copyright infringementby Elie Wiesel (Author), Marion Wiesel (Translator), Barack Obama (Contribution by)A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience of the world." The whole of the president's eloquent tribute serves as a foreword to this memorial edition o...

Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur J. Magida (Author)The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundred of lives--all while retaining his infectious zeal for life. Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and resourcefulness eventually made him an unlikely hero and bon vivant. As a young adult staying one step ahead of the S.S., Cioma would dine in swanky restaurants and fre...

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Report copyright infringementby John Foxe (Author)In 1563, John Foxe published an account of the life of Christian martyrs, beginning with Stephen, the first to die for the cause of Christ, and ending with the most recent martyrs of his day--Protestants killed during Bloody Mary's reign. He knew that dangers lay in forgetting the martyrs--in being insensitive to their struggles. They faced torture and death in their fight of faith, willing to stand for their beliefs and the Word of God regard...

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Guinn (Author)2018 Edgar Award Finalist--Best Fact Crime "A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blen...

The Christian Tradition: A Historical and Theological Introduction - Paperback

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by Peter Feldmeier (Author)Featuring an exceptionally lucid writing style and a holistic, integrated approach, The Christian Tradition: A Historical and Theological Introduction traces the history of Christianity across the world from its earliest origins up to the present. By connecting theological practices to historical developments, it helps students understand and appreciate how theological values and perspectives have grounded major figures and movements. Revealing the many ways that tr...

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination - Paperback

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by Stuart A. Reid (Author)The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times "This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twists." --Fareed Zakaria, CNN host It was supposed...

The Age of Exploration: Totally Getting Lost (Epic Fails #4) - Paperback

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by Ben Thompson (Author)In the fourth installment of the Epic Fails series from authors Erik Slader and Ben Thompson and illustrator Tim Foley, The Age of Exploration: Totally Getting Lost introduces readers to an international cast of trailblazers and details every mutiny, wrong turn, and undiscovered city of gold. Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road o...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography - Paperback

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by Alicia Spencer-Hall (Author), Blake Gutt (Author), Alicia Spencer-Hall (Other)Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such li...

Dr. Winchell's Preadamites (1881) - Paperback

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by Jabez Thomas Sunderland (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 11...

The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events - Paperback

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by Bernard Grun (Author), Eva Simpson (Author)The world-famous reference that tells who did what when from 4500 BC to the present day--now updated for the 21st century. "A unique, encyclopedic book--rewarding, informative, entertaining." --The Wall Street Journal A vast and absorbing resource, the fourth edition of The Timetables of (TM)History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by ma...

Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa's First Imperial Venture - Paperback

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by Julia Flynn Siler (Author)"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." --Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians paddled thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descen...