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The Jews of Iran: Chapters in Their History and Cultural Heritage
David Yeroushalmi · Mazda Pub
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
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The present work provides a historical overview of Jews living on Iranian soil and offers studies dealing with specific facets of their centuries old cultural heritage. Divided into two separate but closely related parts, the book consists of eight chapters. Part one, History and Community,... |
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Hamilton: An American Biography
Tony Williams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR · Ballantine Books
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHURPH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebecca Erbelding · Doubleday
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the War Refugee Board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the war to save... |
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The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine
Bernard Regan · Verso
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of a national home... |
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On Grand Strategy
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill... |
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