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  • George Washington and the Irish

    Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers Who Helped Free America

    by Niall O'Dowd ...
    Discover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of Independence. The Irish role in the American Revolution, the war for the ages, has never been correctly reported. Because many of the Irish who fought were poor and illiterate and left no memoirs, their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Templar Meridians

    The Secret Mapping of the New World

    Reveals the true nature of the secret science the Templars discovered in the Holy Land that was the key to their power• Shows the cartographic knowledge that allowed the Templars to cross the Atlantic and establish settlements in the New World• Explains the connection of the Templar meridians to the journey of Lewis and Clark• Shows the role played by secret societies in the establishment of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • America

    Series series History Examined
    Discover the stories that shaped our nationSure, you know that America's colonists won our independence from Great Britain, that Washington became our first president, and that Lincoln freed the slaves. But these key events merely scratch the surface of our nation's history and the moments that helped shape the United States into the rich, diverse, and complex country it is today.America: History ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Bubble in the Sun

    The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression

    Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Stratford & South Warwickshire

    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area. Behind the famous tourist industry of Shakespears everyday life on farms and factories carried on just like anywhere else. Ancient superstitions and curious legends provided inspriation for the great bard and other authors but real life was punctuated by sudden death, jealousy ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary and Analysis of Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story By: Pablo Vierci

    The date was October 13, 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a group of young rugby players, families, and friends, took off for the final time. A fatal error caused the F571 to crash directly into the Andean mountains, with disastrous consequences: the plane's fuselage shattered into two pieces, its floor ripped to shreds, and seats flew out of the air, dragging people with them. In ... Read more

    $3.93 USD

  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Paramount Studios

    1940-2000

    Series series Images of America
    The fascinating tale of Hollywood powerhouse Paramount Pictures--beginning with its birth in the 1910s through the turbulent decade of the 1930s--was told in Early Paramount Studios by Marc Wanamaker, Michael Christaldi, and E.J. Stephens. Now the same authors are back to tell the next 60 years of the studio saga in Paramount Studios: 1940-2000, with a foreword by former Paramount head of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le Québec sous l'occupation britannique (1759-1871)

    by Ludovic MARIN ...
    Entre 1759 et 1871, le Québec est occupé militairement par l’Angleterre. Invasion britannique. Conquête. Des évènements qui vont sceller pour longtemps le sort des habitants francophones et autochtones de la Nouvelle-France. L’Amérique francophone entre dans une période de grande noirceur. Convaincus par l’idée d’une prétendue supériorité des anglo-saxons sur tous les autres peuples de la planète, ... Read more

    $11.08 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wretched Atom

    America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology

    A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War

    "Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War" is a book of Raphael Semmes' Civil War recollections. In this work Semmes defended both his actions at sea and the political actions of the southern states. The book is viewed as one of the most cogent but bitter defenses written about the South's "Lost Cause." ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nation Must Awake

    My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

    Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Indian Scout Craft and Lore

    Series series Native American
    The life of the Indian boy — living close to nature, learning the ways of the wild animals, playing games and learning stories that developed the strength of body and spirit — has long been noted for its ability to develop character. In this book Charles Eastman ("Ohiyesa"), a full-blooded Sioux Indian raised as a young warrior in the 1870's and 80's, describes that life — the lessons he learned, ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Casa da Vovó

    Uma biografia do DOI-Codi (1969-1991), o centro de sequestro, tortura e morte da ditadura militar

    by Marcelo Godoy ...
    Este é um trabalho único, daqueles livros obrigatórios que de tempos em tempos ajudam a entender melhor as agruras do país em que vivemos. O jornalista Marcelo Godoy, que construiu nos últimos 25 anos uma respeitadíssima reputação nas redações de grandes publicações, dedicou-se por uma década à mais ingrata das tarefas da profissão: fazer falar quem passou a vida se escondendo. Godoy ouviu alguns ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pensamento Diplomático Brasileiro - Coleção

    Formuladores e Agentes da Política Externa

    Os três volumes aqui reunidos tratam, sucessivamente, das concepções fundadoras do pensamento diplomático da política internacional da Primeira República e, por fim, da reforma do Estado e da modernização da diplomacia. vinte e seis autores, acadêmicos e diplomatas analisam a contribuição ao longo desses três períodos, de vinte e seis notáveis personagens da história diplomática do Brasil, numa ... Read more

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  • Alexandre de Gusmão (1695-1753)

    O estadista que desenhou o mapa do Brasil

    Neste primoroso ensaio biográfico, Synesio Sampaio Goes Filho apresenta ao leitor, de forma acessível e atraente, a trajetória de Alexandre de Gusmão e da mais importante negociação territorial da história do Brasil.No século XVIII, a situação territorial do Brasil era complicada: minas de ouro foram descobertas no oeste; a Colônia do Sacramento havia sido fundada no rio da Prata, bem em frente a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • American Saturday

    by Clark Howard ...
    A “vividly written” account of the bloody 1971 San Quentin riot by the Edgar Award–winning author of Zebra and Six Against the Rock (Kirkus Reviews).American Saturday traces one man’s path from the slums of Chicago to the California state prison where he embraced radicalism, was charged for the murder of a corrections officer, and eventually, was gunned down during the violent chaos following a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Plots

    Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

    by Sarah Carter ...
    Sarah Carter’s Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own.Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the “spade-work” of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its "surplus" ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • THE PIRATES OWN BOOK (Illustrated)

    Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers

    by Charles Ellms ...
    This book contains the authentic narratives of the lives, exploits and executions of the world's most infamous buccaneers including contemporary eyewitness accounts, documents, trial transcripts and letters. Charles Ellms was a reclusive author of many popular nautical books on pirates and shipwrecks. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship

    Arctic Ghost Ship

    No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian civil war and made dangerous annual voyages around Alaska to Canada's western Arctic coast, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Brooklyn

    The Once and Future City

    An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Concise Survey of Western Civilization

    Supremacies and Diversities throughout History

    This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities” develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. “Supremacies” centers on the use of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Banderas olvidadas

    El Ejército español en las guerras de Emancipación

    Series Book 6 - Historia de España
    Reeditamos con orgullo Banderas olvidadas. El Ejército español en las guerras de Emancipación, uno de los escasos estudios dedicados a los ejércitos que combatieron en pro de la Monarquía española durante los procesos de emancipación en la América española a comienzos del siglo XIX. Julio Albi de la Cuesta, autor de éxitos como De Pavía a Rocroi, describe con pasión, pero ecuanimidad, un ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jesús Reyes Heroles

    A través de sus aforismos, sentencias y máximas políticas

    Don Jesús Reyes Heroles (1921-1985) dejó una obra política. Ambos legados periódicamente se revisan, estudian y revaloran, por su trascendencia e importancia histórica. Precisamente en sus estudios históricos, discursos políticos, ensayos, declaraciones públicas y entrevistas periodísticas encontramos varios cientos de aforismos, sentencias y máximas políticas, lo que nos muestra y demuestra que ... Read more

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