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This Royal Descents supplement is an outgrowth of the author's multi-volume family history of the "e;Presidential Branch"e; of the Washingtons.

Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability.

Angkor: The Sacred Empire of the Khmers invites readers on an extraordinary journey through one of the world's greatest civilizations — the Khmer Empire.

This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions – Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian – to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes and states we think of as emotion.

This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions – Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian – to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes and states we think of as emotion.

Queens, Gods, and Revolution explores one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of ancient Egyptian history, when imperial wealth, powerful queens, religious experimentation, and dynastic crisis transformed the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Some loves change what ordinary words mean.

'A book full of wit, wisdom and surprises.

In 1920 America staggered out of a world war and a plague, exhausted and grieving.

"e;Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England.

Martial law is an authoritarian form of government rule based on English law that has been used infrequently in the United States, but it is always a threat to contemporary Americans.

This book recounts the true story of Shawn Hornbeck, an eleven-year-old boy who disappeared while biking in Missouri.

Inferno is a gripping history of the world wars told through twelve battles that shaped the fate of the 20th century.

In June 1941, a seventy-one-year-old Russian general sitting in a Berlin apartment issued a proclamation calling on Cossacks everywhere to join the German Wehrmacht — framing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union as a crusade against communism and Jewry.

Welcome to The Black Cat Inn and its famous fareThe Black Cat Inn is renowned for two very different things—its fine food and its ghosts.

This book presents a critical rethinking of Philippine textiles, foregrounding the richness and complexity of indigenous weaving practices as they intersect with social structures, political histories, and debates around authenticity.

What happens when political satire meets Dante, Donald Trump, and the Republican Party?

This book presents a critical rethinking of Philippine textiles, foregrounding the richness and complexity of indigenous weaving practices as they intersect with social structures, political histories, and debates around authenticity.

In November 1920, Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel stood on the bridge of the cruiser General Kornilov as the last ship departed Sevastopol harbour, watching the Crimean coast disappear into the darkness.

Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain local order during both war and peacetime.

The Maghreb the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world.

This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of Turkey, Europes awkward neighbour and the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Battle of Tom's Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was "e;the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war.

Through the voices of the men who experienced it, Boys, Just Boys relates the story of the 423rd regiment of the 106th Infantry Division during and after the Battle of the Bulge.

Between 1918 and 1921, a wave of mass violence swept through the Jewish communities of Ukraine that the world has largely forgotten.

 From his rebellious Parisian youth to the blood-soaked battlefields of the Algerian War, Jacques Mesrine forged an uncompromising path defined by anti-authority rage and tactical military precision.

Collapse and Rebirth follows Egypt through one of the most dramatic turning points in its ancient history: the fall of the Old Kingdom, the turmoil of the First Intermediate Period, and the extraordinary recovery that gave birth to the Middle Kingdom.

Discover the Philosophy of Self-Sovereignty, Personal Autonomy, and Modern Satanic PracticeAre you ready to look beyond the myths, misinterpretations, and sensationalism surrounding modern Satanism?

In November 1847, Switzerland fought a civil war.

For more than six centuries, no one has been able to read the Voynich Manuscript.

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus.

Every twenty years for over a millennium, the Ise shrines have been rebuilt from the ground up, and hundreds of shrine treasures replaced.

"e;Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians' long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theater survived the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages, and contributed to the dramatic triumphs of the Renaissance.

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus.

This collective volume represents a significant contribution to the critical and historiographical debate on the three major religious and cultural traditions of the Mediterranean-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism-analyzed through the lens of judicial practices rooted in peace-making.

Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14.