Category: History

Surfaces: A History

By: Amato, A., Joseph

Price: $39.95

Publisher: University of California Press : May 2013

Seller ID: 104401

ISBN-13: 9780520272774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on Dust and On Foot, he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of surfaces has b...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 1998

Seller ID: 209908

ISBN-13: 9780684848013

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual character...
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Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 2000-05-01

Seller ID: 20070913122606

ISBN-13: 9780393320107

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Would the Cold War have assumed a direction more favorable to the West? In a narrative of steady fascination, Stephen E. Ambrose describes both the political and the military aspects of the situation, ske...
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Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2001

Seller ID: 145468

ISBN-13: 9780743203173

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The U.S. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific...
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 1998

Seller ID: 177717

ISBN-13: 9780684856285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

As-new binding and interior with light shelfwear/scuffing to jacket.
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Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : June 1997

Seller ID: 216214

ISBN-13: 9780684826974

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Firm binding; ink/fingerprints to covers and textblock; interior (surprisingly) free of marks. Overall a very good copy with daunting exterior.
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Das Berchtesgadener Land

By: AMMON, LEOPOLD

Price: $12.50

Publisher: von L. und H. Ammon : April 1972

Seller ID: 20080402137849

ISBN: B000TVJH86

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good. Attractive, tightly bound copy with brilliant color plates. Dustjacket very good with light edgewear at top. 76 pp. In German and English.
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum

By: Anbinder, Tyler

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Free Press : September 2010

Seller ID: 195623

ISBN-13: 9781439141557

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. While it comprised only a handful of streets, many of America's most impoverished African Americans and Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian immigrants sweated out their existence there. Located in today's Chinatown, Five Points witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font o...
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A Warrior, a Patriot, a Hero, and a Mentor: The Life and Times of John W. Monk 1916-2018

By: Anderson, Eugene

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. : September 2021

Seller ID: 202388

ISBN-13: 9781649133441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

By: Anderson, M.T.

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Candlewick : February 2017

Seller ID: 221133

ISBN-13: 9780763691004

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"This ambitious and gripping work is narrative nonfiction at its best. . . . The book has all the intrigue of a spy thriller. . . . A must-have title with broad crossover appeal." -- School Library Journal (starred review) In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history--almost three years of bombardment and starvation. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, writing a symphony to rouse, rally, eulogize, and commemorate his ...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Anderson, Scott

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Doubleday : August 2013

Seller ID: 219148

ISBN-13: 9780385532921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNew York Times - Christian Science Monitor - NPR - Seattle Times - St. Louis DispatchNational Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game" to control the Middle East The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to t...
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The Generals (Vintage Civil War Library)

By: ANDERSON,NANCY SCOTT , ANDERSON,DWIGHT

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vintage Civil War Library : February 1989

Seller ID: 20070928123995

ISBN-13: 9780394759852

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Capture of Constantinople : The Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Gunther of Pairis

By: ANDREA, ALFRED J.

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Pace Univ Pr : 1997-04-01

Seller ID: 214726

ISBN-13: 9780812215861

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular writers; their perspective is balanced by a document written from a monastic point of view and now available for the first time in English.The Hystoria Constantinopolitana relates the adventures of Martin of Pairis, an abbot of the Cistercian Order who participated in the plunder...
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Seven Myths of the Crusades (Myths of History: A Hackett Series)

By: Andrea, Alfred J.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. : September 2015

Seller ID: 208750

ISBN-13: 9781624664038

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present Islamic-Christian relations proves, once and for all, that real history is far more fascinating than conspiracy theories, pseudo-history and myth-mongering. This book is a powerful witness to the dangers of the misappropriation and misinterpretation of the past and the false parallels so often drawn between the crusades and later historical events...
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Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History (Critical Themes in World History)

By: Andrea, Alfred J.,Holt, Andrew

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. : March 2021

Seller ID: 208736

ISBN-13: 9781624669606

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London

By: Andrew, Donna T.,McGowen, Randall

Price: $12.50

Publisher: University of California Press : October 2001

Seller ID: 170591

ISBN-13: 9790520220620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Book in New condition, with pristine text. Jacket would be Like New but for a clean, closed tear, neatly repaired, along the spine.
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Tweeting Da Vinci

By: Ann C Pizzorusso

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Da Vinci Press : January 2014

Seller ID: 153158

ISBN-13: 9781940613000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics)

By: ANONYMOUS,

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : January 1984

Seller ID: 192740

ISBN-13: 9780140444094

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This comprehensive collection includes Asser's Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred's own writings, laws, and will. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by aw...
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Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language

By: Anonymous,

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. : September 2016

Seller ID: 223730

ISBN-13: 9781624665233

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The saga of the Three Kingdoms--which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states--remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional operas and ballads, but also, in more recent years, of movies, television dramas, and video games. Translated into English for the first time here, the Sanguozhi pinghua (thirteenth century CE) provides a complete and fast-paced narrative account of the events of the period, from the beginning of the civil wars to the demise of the Three Kingd...
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Gulag

By: APPLEBAUM, ANNE

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Random House Inc : April 2004

Seller ID: 176272

ISBN-13: 9781400034093

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Imm...
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Category: History