Historical Study Books


People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) Best Price: $11.42 Professor Zinn definitely fills a need--a well-documented political history of the United States...	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Best Price: $8.84 Jared Diamond's at it again, providing a comprehensive view of the real root causes and...	Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $13.57 Wallace Stegner was not only a great writer ("Angle of Repose") and teacher (Stanford...	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor, Revised Edition (Story ... the World: History for the Classical Child) Best Price: $10.11 I bought this book while homeschooling my two girls. The book was such good story that I began...	Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America Best Price: $8.77 This book was a revelation to me. It explained so much about my Southern heritage and made me...



Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Best Price: $4.99 Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw is a rather difficult work for me to assess as I have...	An American Childhood Best Price: $5.00 I'll be honest; I absolutely hated this book when I first read it (for a class, the summer...	The Guns of August Best Price: $4.28 The Guns of August is an easy to read and flowing history of the early days of World War I. The...	Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) Best Price: $7.98 I enjoyed the book very much because author use his point of view to describe his journey...	The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge Best Price: $10.81 I drive over it every day to work and know that it's the most beautiful bridge in the world, but...



The Library at Night Best Price: $17.08 The LIBRARY AT NIGHT is an ideal blend of contemplation and observation, of thought and history....	Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes) Best Price: $13.62 Julia Reed spends a lot of time thinking about ham biscuits. And cornbread and casseroles and...	The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy Best Price: $8.75 I devoured this book in one sitting! What fun to learn obscure facts! If you enjoy learning...	The Black Death: A Personal History Best Price: $15.48 I can't put this book down. Told with historical accuracy from the point of view of a fictional...	They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Best Price: $7.74 This book is on our UMW 2008 reading list. The book is very well written and takes you on this...

Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep) Best Price: $10.31 This book really helped me do well on the AP Test.I got a 4! It's concise and really amusing. It...	The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Sources and Studies in World History) Best Price: $21.38 The authors have written a book with a clear-cut agenda--to force American students to recognize...	The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition] Best Price: $5.99 I read this book for a Microeconomics class that I took with Dr. Gertmenian at Pepperdine in...	Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 Best Price: $28.21 An excellent description of that time in England. Brought back a lot of memories. Probably less...	Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) Best Price: $11.90 Thomas Cahill has written another fantastic history book. He has the abiltiy to unlock mysteries...

The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe) Best Price: $11.68 The period discussed by this book starts in the reign of Louis the XIV King of France then the...	Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project Best Price: $11.97 This was a great purchase. I haven't finished it, but wish I would of known about this sooner.	The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation (Story of Christianity) Best Price: $21.06 A readable book, the Story of Christianity Volume 1 will be a simple, but informative read...	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Best Price: $19.84 My daughter was very impressed by Albion's Seed when she read it as part of her undergrad...	The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World Best Price: $25.20 This book is sort of rare for me, who generally reads items cover to cover. Some chapters of it...

Church History In Plain Language Updated 2nd Edition Best Price: $12.90 Excellant! Both in content and editorial applications. Here is an example of a fine book to...	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Best Price: $6.74 Yeah, I dont mean to come across the wrong way but i do have a degree in philosophy and i...	A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century Best Price: $21.35 A History of Histories is an idiosyncratic work filled with a kaleidoscope of insights that...	Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas Best Price: $14.61 Binkley presents an insightful and lively account of some of the players who operate in a world...	America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food Best Price: $12.98 What a way to spend the summer! all of the good food, the bad and great philosophy of american food!

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors Best Price: $4.94 Michael Farquhar's "Scandal" series is simply fantastic. If school history books...	Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century Best Price: $12.00 Reappraisals is a re-packaging of essays by a group of authors I am not familiar with. I did not...	Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped Best Price: $7.47 I picked up this book the other day and found it a real page turner. It's broken up into short...	The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the DecadesBefore Roe v. Wade Best Price: $8.31 For whatever reason, Amazon has not incorporated the reviews from the hardcover edition of this...	Barron's AP United States History 2008 (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap United States History Advanced Placement Examination) Best Price: $10.00 Barron?s newly updated Advanced Placement U.S. History test preparation manual presents two...

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Best Price: $7.90 Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror is a study of European Medieval history centered on the Black...	Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol Best Price: $15.00 A spirited look at the history of alcohol from the dawn of civilization to the twenty first...	Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Best Price: $8.20 This book reminds me of something written for one's English teacher. Hundred's of footnotes...	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 Best Price: $20.95 Seller described the used book that I received perfectly. Shipment was expedited. All aspects...	The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves Best Price: $17.29 This is a superb telling of the story of the Civil War with running commentary in the actual...

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell Best Price: $8.24 I'll grant that Mark Kurlansky did his homework.He provides an extensive Bibliography and the...	'Tis: A Memoir Best Price: $0.61 I ordered this book USED/GOOD CONDITION. It came in Very good condition. I was very pleased and...	Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep) Best Price: $10.31 It's too bad there aren't more reviews to back my opinion, because this book easily beats out...	When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams Best Price: $12.47 Greene's newest is fun if you are from that era of music. I wish it had more about the...	The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War Best Price: $16.13 Every page of this book yields unexpected and brilliant insights and sidelights into the motley...

The Prince (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $4.02 "The Prince" by Machiavelli is one of the greatest classics of political science. ...	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Best Price: $21.94 While "Delirious" has its fair share of archispeak, Mr. Koolhaas pulls off an...	The Wars of Gods and Men: Book III of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles) Best Price: $4.40 THE ADVICE OF AN AKKADIAN FATHER TO HIS SON. (c. 2200 BCE): "Do not speak ill, speak only...	The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy Best Price: $10.68 I bought this book for my husband, and he loves it. He is not the kind to sit and read for very...	Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties Best Price: $38.90 Wow. What a gorgeous book. Full of trippy pix I have never before seen, from psychedelic...

Paul Revere's Ride Best Price: $10.00 Excellent book Extremely well documented. Dispells some common misconceptions about the...	Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History Best Price: $10.17 Norman Finkelstein can be accussed of many things: being a pedant, using strident sarcasm in his...	A Remarkable Mother Best Price: $4.50 Very quick service. I got this book for my mom for Mother's Day and she loved it. I recommend...	Kaplan SAT Subject Test: U.S. History, 2008-2009 Edition (Kaplan Sat Subject Tests Us History) Best Price: $11.14 I didn't buy this to pass any tests. I have been reading David McCullough's book John Adams and...	When I Was Puerto Rican Best Price: $6.17 Great Title but maybe because the books speaks of being "Puerto Rican" in a different...

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