Category: Misc. History

This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.

Bill Sloan, "a master of the combat narrative" (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers--and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrende...
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Creators A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By: Boorstein, Daniel J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Jul-11

Seller ID: 474442

ISBN: 394543955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Feb-14

Seller ID: 50577

ISBN: 394726251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

By: Bruce Pascoe

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Scribe US: May-18

Seller ID: 487092

ISBN: 1947534084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.

In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer ta...
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Crowds and Power

By: Canetti, Elias

Price: $7.50

Publisher: September 2013

Seller ID: 494618

ISBN: 0374518203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.

Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

By: Carrell, Jennifer Lee

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Aug-11

Seller ID: 153723

ISBN: 452285070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

By: Catherine E. McKinley

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: Jun-12

Seller ID: 466095

ISBN: 1608195880

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish "rag traders"; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and African slaves-her ancestors were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase human life. McKinley's journey in search of beauty and her own history leads her to the West African women who dye, trade, and wear indigo-women who unwittingly teach her that buried deep in...
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Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires

By: Chamberlain, M.E.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 388696

ISBN: 631216022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization

By: Chanda, Nayan

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 407606

ISBN: 300112017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

By: Charles Freeman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage: Feb-05

Seller ID: 195624

ISBN: 1400033802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.

When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the ...
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Category: Misc. History