History and Archaeology

How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time?

Strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations, and quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britain’s capital.

"e;A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account"e; of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News).

In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson's life.

A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi.

Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled his country's history with his dictatorship for almost four decades.

Most of us have heard the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and WHAT they did?

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First English language assessment and discussion of the ebb and flow in development and decline of pre-industrial urban sites in western Thessaly from the 4th century BCE to the middle Ages.

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In Grano e Non Zizzania si potrà vedere che, nonostante i progressi della scienza e della tecnologia, e nonostante tutte le esperienze riportate, l'umanità si sta muovendo verso la ripetizione di vecchi errori.

This is not just one love story.

This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier.

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For the first time since his two-year imprisonment in North Korea, Kenneth Bae recounts his dramatic ordeal in vivid detail.

Rediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial RiverWoven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal-it encapsulates a pivotal era in United States history, especially the monumental strides in engineering, commerce, and socio-cultural shifts between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

First English translation of the best German account of retreat between August and September 1944.

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En Cholula Mexico, la ciudad rodeada por los volcanes del Iztaccihuatl, el Popocatepetl y la Malinche, la ciudad que se niega a dejar atras su magia prehispanica, y que es sede de la piramide de Quetzalcoatl, la mas grande del mundo; en el ano 1914, cuando no solo estalla la gran guerra mundial, sino que Mexico es el corazon sangriento de la revolucion Mexicana, abanderada por Zapata y Carranza; y que habia sido contenida por el sangriento y escalofriante cuartelazo de Victoriano Huerta y el embajador Lane Wilson, en la decena tragica de 1913, que resulto con la muerte Madero y Pino Suarez.

Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries.

La question des conditions de travail, pourtant ancienne, est loin d'être maîtrisée et n'est pas prête de disparaître.

Della Lambert, an ingenue on the brink of womanhood, is a member of an 1850 wagon train heading west with her widowed father when she was captured by an Indian raiding party.

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What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages?

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