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 The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and StupefyBest Price: $10.57 I married a history buff, and never know what to get him as a gift. I usually go through old... |  The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Timetables of History)Best Price: $15.34 In review of this book I believe it is an adult coloring book for those with a limited... |  Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never LearnedBest Price: $2.68 Davis has the right title for this book. Except the title is more adaptable for himself than the... |  A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and FutureBest Price: $5.00 Poor writing with inaccurate "facts" and that was the first few pages. When I would... |  The Houses of History: A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and TheoryBest Price: $19.80 The Houses of History was an interesting read. Many of the excerpts that the writers put... |
 The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: 2 VolumesBest Price: $320.00 the yivo encyclopedia of Jews in eastern europe is an important source of information for all... |  The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In HistoryBest Price: $11.00 Again we have to remind ourselves,it is the most influential persons in history, the influence... |  The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the PastBest Price: $8.50 In Cretaceous North America a Tyrannosaurus Rex, using his small forelimbs to position a... |  The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationBest Price: $10.15 With the politicization of the schools and the increasing emphasis on race, gender and... |  Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical ThoughtBest Price: $10.70 This is an excellent book. Will try not to be repetitious. As a reader you should be mindful... |
 Tudor Tailor: reconstructing sixteenth- century dressBest Price: $22.68 I didn't like the way this book was laid out, but there were some good tips for the Ren Faire... |  The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical GuideBest Price: $22.72 This book was exactly as described and so much more. It is well written, well organized, and... |  Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!Best Price: $7.50 Although most of his info probably checks out, the first page I turned to incorrectly stated... |  History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (6th Edition)Best Price: $25.92 Mark Gilderhus' book is a concise look at the evolution of historical research and reporting in... |  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry (Complete Idiot's Guide to)Best Price: $10.57 It seems there are copious books out there for true beginners or "idiots" as the book... |
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 The Smithsonian Book of BooksBest Price: $24.99 I had been assigned this book for a college course on (duh) the history of books. Before the... |  The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History)Best Price: $19.95 This belongs on any list of the five best books of American Indian history, or of North American... |  The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $16.76 Ok, I confess, I have not yet read the book or even seen it. I am however reading its... |  The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 A History of US Book 1 (History of US)Best Price: $8.49 Wonderful for kids to learn but not to long they get bored. Also great for breaking up into... |  The American PresidencyBest Price: $7.95 Even though i only had to read this book for school, it did to turn out to be a very interesting... |
 The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas FrontierBest Price: $8.41 Very well put together book of white captives abducted by the Indians. Scott Zesch did a... |  The Constitution of the United States: An Introduction, Revised and Updated Edition (Mentor)Best Price: $2.07 I was less than impressed with this "analysis" of our Constitution. This guy was a... |  The Invention of Tradition (Canto)Best Price: $16.24 This book is one of the sociological must-reads for nation building and growth of national identity. |  The Federalist & Anti Federalist PapersBest Price: $19.41 My Husband is an American history fanatic and loved his christmas present. the book was in... |  ULTIMATE INTERACTIVE BASIC TRAINING WORKBOOK, THE: What You Must Know to Survive and Thrive in Boot CampBest Price: $12.48 This book has some very useful information in it along with a great workout program. The author... |
 Twentieth-century WorldBest Price: $61.34 Had to pick this book up for a History class, and the book certainly does what it says it will.... |  The Penguin Atlas of World History: Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution (Penguin Reference Books)Best Price: $8.21 I am providing the same review for Volumes I and II. The two volumes, together, represent an... |  The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto)Best Price: $15.61 Over five hundred years have passed since Constantinople became Istanbul. It is difficult to... |  National Geographic Almanac of American HistoryBest Price: $13.05 This book seems to have been written to run about 500 pages before it was cut down to its final... |  An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the American War of Independence: An expert in-depth reference on the armies of the War of the Independence ... 1775-1783 (Illustrated Encyclopedia)Best Price: $23.10 A definitive analysis of the weapons, equipment, deployment, tactics and motivation of these... |
 The Pirate DictionaryBest Price: $10.17 I never knew that so many of our common English-language phrases and ideas originated with... |  The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to TodayBest Price: $1.49 Are you interested in purchasing this book, but hesitating because of the five (or so) one-star... |  Worldly Goods: A New History of the RenaissanceBest Price: $11.35 Lisa Jardine shows us that the Renaissance featured just as much competition, consumerism,... |  The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (Penguin Historical Atlas)Best Price: $11.45 This Atlas is good for the study of the medieval world. But I consider this atlas need more... |  America and Its Peoples: A Mosaic in the Making, Volume 1, Study Edition (5th Edition)Best Price: $37.50 This book isn't too dry to read, the chapter review/quizes makes it easy to study for a test. |
 The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History StudentsBest Price: $13.46 In the past, historians could rely on their basic understanding of bibliographic tools to do... | ||||
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