History books

In the sun-scorched expanses of the Persian plateau, where caravans trace ancient routes laden with spices, silks,...  Read More >>

Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers in Japan have tried to improve access for disabled persons,...  Read More >>

Introduces the traditional songs of Himalayan Ladakh through their history, ethnology, poetry, and Tibetan Buddhism...  Read More >>

A gentle miracle. A painter who listens. A life unfinished. Robert Hale lives a quiet life in St. Augustine, Florida-until...  Read More >>

The Italian giallo was a sleazy, violent, and stylistically baroque form of horror film that was produced in the...  Read More >>

The story of a 19th century Staten Island town that nurtured the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists,...  Read More >>

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it...  Read More >>

Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.  Read More >>

Die systematischen Ausgrabungen in Akraiphia, im nordostlichen Teil Bootiens gelegen, haben 2.100 intakte Graber...  Read More >>

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery...  Read More >>

Explore the Weirdest True Stories Step into a world where truth really is stranger than fiction. In Strange, Unusual,...  Read More >>

Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro,...  Read More >>

In the sun-scorched expanses of the Persian plateau, where caravans trace ancient routes laden with spices, silks,...  Read More >>

There are a handful of well-known European soldiers who volunteered to join the Patriot Army. They include Lafayette,...  Read More >>

Die dunkle, okkulte und verborgene Seite der deutschen Geschichte: von schamanischen Kulten der Germanen über alchemistische...  Read More >>

THE MOOR'S HEAD The Secret History of the Indigenous Nobility of Europe ARE YOU READY TO WAKE UP FROM THE HISTORY...  Read More >>

Hope for peace emerged with the Abraham Accords of 2020. Could the more than century-old Arab-Israeli conflict be...  Read More >>

Novoa explores this complex gendering of science, modernity, and civilization in Argentina during the eighteenth...  Read More >>

This book reveals chilling Stone Age facts, from early tools and beast clashes to dark rituals, cannibalism, harsh...  Read More >>

This history traces the Bible from ancient Near Eastern roots and Hebrew formation through exile, Hellenistic influences,...  Read More >>

This history explores Greenland from ancient ice formations and Paleo-Eskimo migrations through Thule expansions,...  Read More >>

This history traces Israel from prehistoric settlements and patriarchal traditions through exiles, Hellenistic revolts,...  Read More >>

This book uncovers scary European history facts, from prehistoric rituals and Roman executions to Viking raids,...  Read More >>

This history traces Antarctica from Gondwana origins and ancient myths through Cook's voyages, 19th-century whaling,...  Read More >>

This traces Italy from prehistoric settlements and Etruscan influences through Roman Republic and Empire, medieval...  Read More >>