Category - History
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Black People Invented Everything: The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Who Invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made?Cats? What if I told you there was ONE a...
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Clans and Tartans of Scotland
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry - who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than ...
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness" The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thril...
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The Atlas of Atlases: Exploring the Most Important Atlases in History and the Cartographers Who Made Them
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This beatutiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are book...
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The Labyrinth of Curiosities: Journey Through Hundreds of Wild Facts and Fascinating Trivia--And Their Surprising Connections!
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The perfect gift for your smartest friends and family (or you), The Labyrinth of Curiosities is a maze of 400 pages of trivia where each factoid an...
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The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate
PaperbackOriginal price $57.00Original price $57.00 - Original price $57.00Original price $57.00Current price $48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /This 2023 edition of The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur by G. ...
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /National Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the ye...
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implicatio...
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class--and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 ...
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Beautifully Said: Quotes by Remarkable Women and Girls Designed to Make You Think
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Beautifully Said is a female-forward collection of 21 themed chapters of quotes and stories from brilliant, brave, captivating women and girls. Lo...
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North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Maps for Curious Minds series is back--with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonde...
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caes...
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Historical Atlas of the United States: With Original Maps
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Using more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world, this stunning book is the first to tell the story of America's past...
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(Cocke County) Over the Misty Blue Hills. The Story of Cocke County, TN.
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /By: Ruth Webb O'Dell, Pub. 1951, Reprinted 2012, 485 pages, Hard Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-276-7.Cocke county was formed in 1797 and BURNED i...
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a...
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The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Named one of Library Journal's Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the Year An Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly ...
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A singular atlas of 100 infographic maps from thought-provoking to flat-out fun. And don't miss the next book in the series, North American Maps fo...
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /More than 150 inspired--and inspiring--novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly man...
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To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digit...
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the "perfect gift for busy bibliophiles" (Bo...
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Brazil - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Don't just see the sights―get to know the people. For many people, Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it's much ...
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On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed, featuring 366 profanity-filled tales of triumph and terror, science and...
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Sumner County, Tennessee Probate Data 1787-1808
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Although Sumner County was created in 1787 and its wills survive from 1788, the first surviving book of inventories, settlements, and guardian acco...
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Imperial Material: National Symbols in the Us Colonial Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency--and the role they played in US imperialism. In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how U...
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