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Asian American Histories of the United States - Paperback

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by Catherine Ceniza Choy (Author)An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history...

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by Chester Nez (Author), Judith Schiess Avila (Author)The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn't Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn't stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo h...

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Paperback

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by Erik Larson (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."--Entertainment Weekly"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful."--NPR"Thoroughly engrossing."--George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a rec...

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Paperback

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by Dan Jones (Author)"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-'new' present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . The vision takes in whole imperial landscapes but also makes room for intimate portraits of key individuals, and even some poems."--Wall Street Journal "A lively history . . . [Jones] has managed to touch every major topic. As each piece of the ...

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 - Hardcover

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by Vivien Greene (Editor), Gurminder K. Bhogal (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), David Max Horowitz (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th centuryOrphism emerged among a cosmopolitan group of artists active in Paris in the early 1910s, as the innovations of modern life radically altered conceptions of time and space. Engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions...

What Is the Story of the Headless Horseman? - Paperback

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by Sheila Keenan (Author), Who Hq (Author), Andrew Thomson (Illustrator)Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most well-known characters of our time. Discover the haunting story of the Headless Horseman, his chilling adventures in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and his historical backstory in this addition to the What Is the Story Of? series. Washington Irving published The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, introducing the eerie Headless Horseman character to readers worldwide. Readers were both ...

Revival and Revivalism - Library Binding

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by Iain H. Murray (Author)Marrying careful historical research to popular and relevant presentation, Revival and Revivalism traces the spiritually epoch-making events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the eyes of those who lived at their centre. Fundamental to the book's thesis is a rejection of the frequent identification of 'revival' with 'revivalism'. The author demonstrates that a common understanding of the New Testament idea of revival was prevalent in most denomination...

The King James Study Bible, Imitation Leather, Burgundy, Full-Color Edition - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study Bibles on the market, The King James Study Bible, Full Color Edition is the only Bible featuring over half-a-million words of commentary, doctrinal notes, archaeological insights, and time-tested study aids developed ex...

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez - Hardcover

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by Kathleen Krull (Author), Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)In this Pura Belpre award-winning picture book, illustrated by Caldecott Honree Yuyi Morales, acclaimed author Kathleen Krull celebrates Latinx civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. An inspirational book about resistance and hope.When Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers.But Cesar wasn't always a leader. As a boy, he was shy and teas...

Boys, Just Boys: Biography of a WWII Infantry Regiment - Paperback

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by Brian Welke (Author) Number of Pages: 682 Dimensions: 1.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Hardcover

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by Paul Strathern (Author)The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. **One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations** In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world. Framing this histor...

The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior - Paperback

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by Robert Silbernagel (Author)Author BiographyRobert Silbernagel studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and spent his newspaper career in Colorado. He writes a bimonthly column for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and has published on Aldo Leopold and Colorado history. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2023

The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180 - Hardcover

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by Chris Wickham (Author)A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, do...

Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont - Paperback

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by Yvonne Daley (Author)How the counterculture movement changed Vermont--and AmericaGoing Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spaw...

Wavell in the Middle East, 1939-1941: A Study in Generalship - Paperback

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by Harold E. Raugh (Author)This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories, and one--the campaign in Greece in 1941--as a source of endless controversy.Harold E. Raugh, Jr., has drawn upon previously unavailable official documents and interviewed ...

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began - Paperback

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by Art Spiegelman (Author)The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read"A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's ...

Graffiti Alphabets: Street Fonts from Around the World - Paperback

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by Claudia Walde (Author)Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete alphabets.Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from thirty countries to show the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cult...

Orthodox Christianity: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by A. Edward Siecienski (Author)To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great Schism of 1054 that split the Christian world into two camps--Catholic and Orthodox. However, as the second largest Christian denomination, Orthodox Christianity is anything but foreign to the nearly 300 million worshippers who practice it. For them, Orthodoxy is a living, breathing reality; a way of being Christian ultimately...

Little House 4-Book Box Set: Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, on the Banks of Plum Creek - Boxed Set

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by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author), Garth Williams (Illustrator)Read Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House series from the very beginning This paperback box set includes the first 4 titles in the series and features Garth Williams's classic black-and-white illustrations. Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the award-winning Little House books have charmed generations of readers, and now this collectible box set brings together the first 4 books in the series: Littl...

Art History: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Dana Arnold (Author)Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artefacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what art history is, she explains what makes the subject distinctive from other fields of study, and also explores the emergence of social histories of art (such as Feminist Art History and Q...

.... and Called the Folks Together: A Manual on the Use of Fife and Drum in the American Continental Army - Paperback

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by Jim Daniel (Author)The duty of Fifes and drums in the armies of the American Revolution was far more important and extensive than merely playing parade music. The beginning and end of most facets of camp life and formations were communicated across the camps by "beats" and "signals," played as needed or when ordered. "Wood Call" signaled the formation of forage parties to find and bring in wood for the fires. The rattle of "To Arms" sent the troops in a rush to take up their arms and form ...

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - Paperback

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by C. L. R. James (Author)This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history. "One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. . . . Provocative and empowering." -The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in Franc...

History: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by John H. Arnold (Author)There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is a stimulating essay about how people study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and then explores the ways in which these questi...

Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNew York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behin...

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by Matthew Josephson (Author)Prize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age's giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever.The definitive book on the rise and power of early American capitalists, The Robber Barons examines the careers of such masters of finance and industry as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould...

Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition): What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Steven E. Koonin (Author)In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin's groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change--with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland's ice loss is accelerating.""Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.""Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact...

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by John Efron (Author), Steven Weitzman (Author), Matthias Lehmann (Author)The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to the modern day. It examines Jewish history across a range of settings, including the ancient Near East, the age of Greek and Roma...

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Paperback

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by Isabel Wilkerson (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions--now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFI...

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle - Paperback

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by Thomas Sankara (Author)"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2007

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition - Paperback

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by Andrew Hodges (Author), Andrew Hodges (Preface by), Douglas Hofstadter (Foreword by)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age fort...

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - Paperback

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by John Drury Clark (Author), Isaac Asimov (Foreword by)A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This sear...

Africa's `Agitators': Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 - Paperback

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by Jonathan Derrick (Author)The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and Europe as well. In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised bo...