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The Amish: The History and Legacy of One of America's Oldest and Most Unique Communities
*Includes pictures *Includes Amish proverbs and descriptions of Amish life *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “We live simply so others may simply live.” – Amish Proverb Back in the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe...
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The Amistad: The Slave Revolt and Legal Case that Changed the World
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts written about the revolt on the ship*Includes excerpts from the legal cases and arguments*Includes a bibliography for further reading “25,000 slaves were brought into Cuba every year – with the wrongful compliance of, and personal profit...
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The Ancient Agora of Classical Athens: The History and Legacy of the Athenian City Center and Assembly Gathering Space
The center of political and commercial interaction in the Ancient Greek polis was the agora. The word essentially means a gathering place or an open space, and in all Greek city states, the agora was central to all aspects of...
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The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece's Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity
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The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece's Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Forward, sons of the Greeks,Liberate the fatherland,Liberate your children, your women,The altars of the gods of your fathers,And the graves of your ancestors:Now is the...
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The Ancient Bosnian Pyramids: The History and Mystery Over the Controversial Pyramids in Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Includes pictures*Includes theories and explanations regarding the structures*Includes online resources for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Ten years from now nobody will remember my critics, and a million people will come to see what we have done.” - Semir OsmanagichThere...
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The Ancient Canaanites: The History of the Civilizations That Lived in Canaan Before the Israelites
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The Ancient Canaanites: The History of the Civilizations That Lived in Canaan Before the Israelites
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts of the Canaanites*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and...
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The Ancient Egyptian City of Thebes: The History and Legacy of the Capital that Became Luxor
*Includes pictures*Describes the history of the city and the layout of its famous temple complexes*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Let [Agamemnon] offer me the wealth…of Egyptian Thebes, the richest city in the...
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The Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts
Publisher: Sema Institute The Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts are a genre of writings created by several individual Sages of Ancient Egypt, from that have survived to the present and provide a vibrant record of the practice of spiritual evolution otherwise...
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The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's Biggest Cities: The History and Legacy of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsWhen one thinks of the world’s first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some of the first to come to mind, but if the focus then...
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The Ancient Israelites and Egypt: The History of the Egyptian Enslavement of the Jews, the Exodus, and Relations With Israel
The story of the ancient Israelites in Egypt is one of the most famous stories in the world, and one of the most contentious from a historical standpoint. Today, most people know about the relationship between the ancient Israelites and...
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The Ancient Kingdoms of Africa: The History and Legacy of the African Continent's Most Prominent Kingdoms in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsAfrica may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern...
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The Ancient Libyans and Nubians: The History and Legacy of Ancient Egypt's Most Prominent Neighbors in Africa
*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsDuring the several centuries that ancient Egypt stood as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, civilizations of the ancient world, conflicts with its neighbors...
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The Ancient Libyans: The Mysterious History of Egypt's Neighbors to the West during Antiquity
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary Egyptian accounts of the Libyans and the wars against them *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The ancient Egyptians are well known today for the enemies they kept. In their texts, the Egyptians...
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The Ancient Lydians: The History and Legacy of the Iron Age Kingdom of Lydia
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Lydians from ancient historians and contemporary records *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “When all these nations had been added to the Lydian empire, and...
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The Ancient Olympic Games: The History and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Most Famous Sports Event
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The Ancient Olympic Games: The History and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Most Famous Sports Event
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well." (Epictetus) "Many are the sights to be seen in Greece, and many are the wonders...
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The Ancient Roman Sieges of Jerusalem and Masada: The History of the First Jewish-Roman War's Most Famous Battles
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of the battles *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE is arguably the most important event in Jewish history. First, it was the central battle in the First Jewish-Roman...
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The Ancient World's Most Influential Philosophers: The Lives and Works of Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero
*Includes pictures*Includes a table of contentsMany people argue that Confucius is the most influential person of all time, and if having a significant effect on the greatest number of people is the criterion, he may very well be. China is...
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The Ancient World's Most Mysterious Religious Cults: The History of the Cult of the Apis Bull, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Mysteries of Mithras
Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria...
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The Angela Y. Davis Reader
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles....
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Publisher : Akashic Books (January 5, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781617753732
ISBN-13 : 9781617753732
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The Anglo-Zulu War: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Conflict with the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa
“He is Shaka the unshakeable, Thunderer-while-sitting, son of Menzi He is the bird that preys on other birds, The battle-axe that excels over other battle-axes in sharpness, He is the long-strided pursuer, son of Ndaba, Who pursued the sun and...
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The Annotated African American Folktales
* Winner of the 2018 NAACP award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction* Recipient of the 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice AwardThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing...
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The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device
*Includes pictures *Chronicles the discovery and theories over the mechanism's origins and capabilities *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading. *Includes a table of contents "It multiplies, divides and subtracts, but you can't program it." - Michael...
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The Antonine Plague: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire's Worst Pandemic
“[A]s the reign of Marcus Aurelius forms a turning point in so many things, and above all in literature and art, I have no doubt that this crisis was brought about by that plague...The ancient world never recovered from the...
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The ANZAC: The History and Legacy of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the 20th Century
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingA land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge...
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The Apache and Comanche: The History and Legacy of the Southwest's Most Famous Warrior Tribes
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The Apache and Comanche: The History and Legacy of the Southwest's Most Famous Warrior Tribes
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tribes written by whites and tribesmen *Includes a bibliography for further reading From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of...
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The Apache Scouts: The History and Legacy of the Native Scouts Used During the Indian Wars
“Even if we should be able to dislodge them from the rough mountain ridges and impenetrable woods which cover the immense territories of these frontiers, they would seek better asylum in the vastness of the Sierra Madre... [They] know how...
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The Apache Wars: The History and Legacy of the U.S. Army's Campaigns against the Apaches
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fighting described by American soldiers*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Even if we should be able to dislodge them from the rough mountain ridges and impenetrable woods which cover...
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The Apocrypha of the Bible: The History of the Ancient Apocryphal Texts Left Out of the Old Testament and New Testament
The study of the apocryphal gospels, documents about the life or sayings of Jesus that did not become part of the New Testament, is a popular discipline among scholars that now fills several shelves of any respectable library. Despite the...
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