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The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
AgustÃn Fuentes · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond s million-copy-selling classic "Guns, Germs, and Steel, " a bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question:... |
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Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris
John Merriman · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Paris, 1911. Picasso, Debussy, and Proust were revolutionizing art, music, and literature. Electricity had transformed the City of Lights. And the Parisian elites were mad about their fancy new cars. The Belle ?poque was well underway, yet it was not without incident. That year, Paris was gripped... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime
James B Conroy · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant... |
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On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time
CARL CANNON · Twelve
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Forget what you were taught in seventh grade - Carl Cannon's ON THIS DATE takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}... |
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Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
Hugh Bicheno · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a dynamic two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses.England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos.The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent... |
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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
RICHARD H WILKINSON · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A fully illustrated survey of Egypt's temples, covering the secret rites and architectural wonders of these powerful and mysterious monuments from early pharaonic times to the Roman periodThe temples of ancient Egypt include the largest and perhaps most impressive religious monuments... |
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Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome
Paul N. Pearson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor. Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman "of frightening appearance and colossal size" who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor Severus who enlisted... |
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
Lynne Kelly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals... |
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua Levine · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
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THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY, AND MARK RYLANCEThe Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten... |
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