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  • The German Colonial Experience

    Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884-1914

    Edited by Arthur J. Knoll, Hermann J. Hiery ...
    The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I. Knoll and Hiery show how Africans, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders reacted to German rule, how the Germans ran the daily affairs of government, their vision for the colonized peoples, and how the colonizers and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    by Iain McGilchrist ...
    Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Consider the Fork

    A History of How We Cook and Eat

    by Bee Wilson ...
    **Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies—from the fork to the microwave and beyond—have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat“Like having a long dinner table discussion with a fascinating friend…. A pure joy to read.”—Los Angeles Times**Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Lessons of History

    by Will Durant, Ariel Durant ...
    A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Tales of the Alhambra

    by Washington Irving ...
    Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington IrvingThe book combines description, myth and narrations of the Spanish palace's towers and history up its destruction by the French in 1812, and the further damage caused by an earthquake in 1821. ... Read more

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  • Heroes of History

    A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age

    by Will Durant ...
    In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.Heroes of History is a book of life-enhancing wisdom and optimism, complete with Durant's wit, knowledge, and unique ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Tall Ships and Tall Tales

    a life of dancing with history

    by Jonathan King ...
    Over the last 40 years, Jonathan King has brought history to life, re-enacting events such as the First Fleet’s voyage across the high seas to Botany Bay, the mutiny against ship’s captain William Bligh on the Bounty, Matthew Flinders’ troubled circumnavigation of Terra Australis, Ernest Shackleton’s death-defying dash across the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean, and Marco Polo’s passage from ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Story of Assyria

    by James Baikie ...
    At the beginning of all things, when the world was new, and men were finding out bit by bit what they could do and how to do it, there were two countries that were more important than any others. They were both the valleys of great rivers, and it was the rivers that made them what they were. The one country was Egypt-that wonderful land where the Nile comes rolling down from the Great Lake Basin ... Read more

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  • Love Child

    A Genealogist's Guide to the Social History of Barbados

    by L.E. Salazar ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with  thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a glimpse of early colonial life.  If you like to think for yourself this book will be your compass as you uncover the secret connection  of the people known as 'Red Legs' or Red Shanks in North America; and ... Read more

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  • Adapa And The Food Of Life

    by R.W. Rogers ...
    Adapa And The Food Of Lifeby R.W. RogersAdapa, or perhaps Adamu, son of Ea, had recieved from his father, the god Ea, wisdom, but not eternal life. He was a semi-divine being and was the wise man and priest of the temple of Ea at Eridu, which he provided with the ritual bread and water. In the exercise of this duty he carried on fishing upon the Persian Gulf. When Adapa was fishing one day on a ... Read more

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  • Visions of Empire

    How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

    by Krishan Kumar ...
    What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks ... Read more

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  • Portraits in Plaster

    by Laurence Hutton ...
    The story of the beginning of my collection of masks is curious and perhaps interesting. The half-dozen casts upon which it is based were found, early in the Sixties, in a dust-bin in one of the old-fashioned streets which run towards the East River, in the neighborhood of Tompkins Square, New York. Their owner had lately died; his unsympathetic and unappreciative heirs had thrown away what they ... Read more

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