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Asia Minor's Most Prominent Ancient Cities: The History and Legacy of the Influential Cities that Dominated the Region in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe pages of world history textbooks contain a litany of “lost” empires and civilizations, but usually, upon further review, it is revealed that these so called lost empires are...
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A Ascensão e Queda do Império Otomano: A História da Criação do Império Turco e Sua Destruição Mais de 600 Anos Depois
Em termos de geopolítica, talvez o evento mais marcante da Idade Média tenha sido o cerco otomano de Constantinopla em 1453. A cidade tinha sido uma capital imperial já no século IV, quando Constantino, o Grande, mudou o centro de...
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich: The History of the Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator and the Blond Beast
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts detailing various attempts to kill Hitler and the assassination of Heydrich*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsLike other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power...
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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: The History and Legacy of the Event That Triggered World War I
Although a couple of wars were fought on the European continent during the 19th century, an uneasy peace was mostly maintained across the continent for most of the 19th century after Napoleon. Despite this ostensible peace, the Europeans were steadily...
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler: The History of the Failed Conspiracies and Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the various plots and the ways they were foiled*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsLike other totalitarian leaders, Adolf Hitler kept an iron grip on power in part by making...
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The Assassination of President James Garfield: The History and Legacy of the President's Death
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The Assassination of President James Garfield: The History and Legacy of the President's Death
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the assassination and trial *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "This is not murder. It is a political necessity. It will make my friend Arthur president, and...
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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: The Czech Resistance's Killing of the Top Nazi Official during World War II
"Since it is opportunity which makes not only the thief but also the assassin, such heroic gestures as driving in an open, unarmoured vehicle or walking about the streets unguarded are just damned stupidity, which serves the Fatherland not one...
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The Assassination of President William McKinley: The History and Legacy of the President's Death
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The Assassination of President William McKinley: The History and Legacy of the President's Death
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the assassination*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“It was in my heart, there was no escape for me. I could not have conquered it had my life been at stake....
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Assur: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Assyrian Empire's Capital City
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts describing Assur and the Assyrians*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“All who hear the news of your destruction clap their hands for joy. Did no one escape your endless cruelty?” - Nahum 3:19In...
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The Assyrians: The History of the Most Prominent Empire of the Ancient Near East
Discusses Assyrian military tactics, religious practices, and more Includes ancient Assyrian accounts documenting their military campaigns and more "I fought daily, without interruption, against Taharqa, king of Egypt and Ethiopia, the one accursed by all the great gods. Five times...
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The Assyrian Empire's Capitals: The History and Legacy of Nineveh, Assur, and Nimrud
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accountsWhen scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal consequences (at least by modern standards) often stand out. Forced removal of entire populations, sieges that decimated entire cities,...
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Athena: The Origins and History of the Greek Goddess
*Includes pictures of important places and historic art depicting Athena and other Greek gods and goddesses.*Explains the historical origins of the goddess and the mythological tales about her.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.“I begin to sing of Pallas Athene, the...
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The Astors: The History and Legacy of One of the World's Wealthiest Families
The Astor surname, one of New York’s most important family names for over a century, is synonymous with American aristocracy, a term that defies simple definition. Unlike Britain, where the term aristocrat had a definite meaning, the New York aristocracy...
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The Athenian Agora and Roman Forum: The Beating Hearts of the Ancient World's Most Famous Cities
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The Athenian Agora and Roman Forum: The Beating Hearts of the Ancient World's Most Famous Cities
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe 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...
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The Athenian Navy and Spartan Army: The History and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Most Famous Military Forces
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading“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 fight for everything.” – The Greek...
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Athenian Democracy: The History of the World's First Democracy in Ancient Athens
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts of Athenian democracy by Aristotle, Plutarch, and others*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIn today’s modern world every political regime, even the most authoritarian or repressive, describes itself as...
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Athens & Sparta: Ancient Greece's Famous City-States
For 2500 years, the Ancient Greeks have fascinated the West, who look to Greece as the creators of Western culture. Indeed, the Greeks revolutionized warfare, art, architecture, government, philosophy, and more. Of all the Greeks' accomplishments, many can be credited...
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The Attica Prison Riot: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Prison Uprising
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the riot by inmates, hostages, and state officials*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"If we can't live as men, we sure as hell can die as men.” – A prisoner...
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Atlantis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient World's Fabled Lost Island and Modern Searches for It
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts describing Atlantis and the search for it*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“And the island of Atalantes, which was greater than Africa and Asia, as Plato says in the Timaeus, in one day and...
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Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn: Hollywood's Most Iconic Starlets
*Includes pictures of the actresses and important people, places, and scenes.*Includes the actresses' own quotes about their lives and careers. .*Includes a Bibliography of each actress for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.Early in her career, there was no actress...
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Attica: The History and Legacy of the Most Important Region in Ancient Greece
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient descriptions of Attica and Athens*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsAccording to Herodotus, the Persians offered the Athenians an alliance in 480 BCE. The other Greek city-states (polei) were understandably concerned...
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Augusto Pinochet: The Life and Legacy of Chile's Controversial Dictator
For much of the 20th century, South American governments in large part lived under a system of military junta governments. The mixture of indigenous peoples, foreign settlers and European colonial superpowers produced cultural and social imbalances into which military forces...
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The Austro-Prussian War: The History and Legacy of the Conflict that Resulted in Prussian Dominance over Germany
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingThe most famous battle of the 19th century was undoubtedly Waterloo, and the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars was Leipzig, but neither one of those legendary battles was the biggest...
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The Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War: The History of the Wars that Led to Prussia's Unification of Germany
Locked in a balance of power since the 1815 Congress of Vienna, the world was dominated by the great European powers of Britain, France, Russia, and Austria, and at the Congress of Vienna itself, Prussia had been a minor concern....
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Ayn Rand & Atlas Shrugged: The Life and Legacy of the Author and Book
*Includes a full length biography of Ayn Rand that examines her life, works, philosophy, and legacy.*Includes a primer on Atlas Shrugged that will quickly bring readers up to speed on the plot, characters, themes, symbols, and philosophy of Rand’s classic...
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Axum: The History and Legacy of the Kingdom of Aksum's Capital and One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in Africa
In the year 570 CE, a child by the name of Muhammad is born in the Arabian city of Mecca. Sixty-two years later, he dies, and upon his death, the faith that he founded, Islam ("obedience to the one God"),...
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Babe Ruth: The Life and Legacy of Major League Baseball's Most Famous Player
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.” – Babe RuthAs one of America’s oldest and most beloved sports,...
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Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Mesopotamia's Greatest City
*Includes pictures.*Includes historic accounts about the city and its history.*Profiles Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar and the Hanging Gardens.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.The ancient world was full of many fantastic cities and places, and like today’s major cities,...
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Babilonia: El Ascenso y la Caída de la Grandiosa Ciudad de la Antigua Mesopotamia
* Incluye fotos* Incluye recursos en línea y una bibliografía para leer másEl mundo antiguo estaba repleto de ciudades y lugares fantásticos, y al igual que las grandes ciudades de hoy, las antiguas metrópolis eran centros de comercio, religión y...
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Baldr: The Origins and History of the Famous Norse God Whose Death Leads to Ragnarok
*Includes pictures*Includes medieval accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingMuch of what is known of the Norse myths comes from the 10th century onwards. Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland,...
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