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Writings from Ancient Egypt
Toby A H Wilkinson · Penguin Books Pages: 337 Format: Print book
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A collection of rare texts from Ancient Egypt, newly translated for this essential edition The fascination that Ancient Egypt holds in our minds has many sources, but at the heart of it lie hieroglyphics. This extraordinary writing system was for many years seen as the ultimate puzzle,... |
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The Age of the Vikings
Anders Winroth · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network. They traveled far from their homelands in swift... |
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
E R Mayhew · Oxford University Press Pages: 275 Format: Hardcover
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The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep... |
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Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
Cate Malek · McSweeney's; First Edition edition Format: Book
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The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestineincluding a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon... |
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes · Holt & Company, Henry Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · Harper Pages: 449 Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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The Amazing Crawfish Boat
John Laudun · University Press of Mississippi Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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In any given year, the Louisiana crawfish harvest tops 50,000 tons. The Amazing Crawfish Boat chronicles the development of an amphibious boat that transformed the Louisiana prairies into alternating fields of aquaculture and agriculture. In seeking to understand how such a machine came... |
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
A C Grayling · Bloomsbury Pages: 351 Format: Print book
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy... |
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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus · NAL; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible
Chanan Tigay · Ecco Press Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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A gripping account of one man's quest to find the oldest Bible in the world and solve the riddle of the brilliant, doomed antiquities dealer accused of forging it. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira--archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem's... |
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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf · New York Univ. Press Pages: 403 Format: Hardcover
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Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves... |
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