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Pre-Owned How We Lived: A Pictorial History of the Places Oklahomans Have Called Home (Hardcover) 0979976707 9780979976704

A 2009 Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for Design Just a little over a century ago the place Oklahomans now call home beckoned settlers from across the country with the promise of land they could call their own. This official Oklahoma Centennial... more

Pre-Owned A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History 9780192800169

Alan Fine shares his unique method of coaching which he has used effectively with businesses and sports personalities. It recognises that top performance comes from removing the obstacles that block us from doing what we already know how to do.... more

We ve Done Them Wrong! : A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them (Paperback)

From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam Every Native American Must leave his home. l. Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed savage. Savage was how the New... more

Pre-Owned The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History (Paperback) 0669244740 9780669244748

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

The Way We Lived Vol. 1 : Essays and Documents in American Social History 9780395959619 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Pre-Owned Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Paperback) 0465056970 9780465056972

Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson s secret history of kitchens showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat. Since prehistory humans have braved sharp knives fire and... more

Documents in History: Sources of the Holocaust (Hardcover)

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the... more

Pre-Owned A Short History of Myth (Myths series) (Paperback) 0676974244 9780676974249

Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is how it has evolved and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period... more

Sincerity : How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars Modern Art Hipster Chic and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No 9780393080988 Used / Pre-owned

A cultural and intellectual history of sincerity from its emergence during the Protestant Reformation to its present incarnations and adversaries. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the... more

Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books Slavery Resistance Freedom (Hardcover)

Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech of religion of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our... more

How to Stop Fascism : History Ideology Resistance (Paperback)

How can we stop the spread of fascism? The author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right. The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi s India to Bolsonaro s Brazil and Erdogan s Turkey fascism is not a horror that... more

Velez - the god of the Rus. The Hidden History of the Russian people (Paperback)

The history of the Russian people ... How much do we know about her? We are aware of the baptism of Rus the wars and the unification of the Principality Some people may have heard about the Book of Veles which many modern scholars consider the most... more

Pre-Owned Virgin Forest: Meditations on History Ecology and Culture (Hardcover) 0820319899

With this remarkable book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. ?The ecological crisis is also a historical crisis ? he writes. ?If we are out of place in nature we are also out of place in time... more

The Dustbin of History (Paperback)

How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string? Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff in the movie or novel or photograph in the actor s pose... more

The Pursuit of History (Hardcover)

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist... more

Pre-Owned Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories (Paperback) 0820318108 9780820318103

How we make history--and what we then make of it--is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen s portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its progress. In the particulars of one town s struggle to check development and save... more

Schiffer Book: How We Lived: Everyday Furniture Fashions & Settings 1880-1940 (Paperback)

What did normal farm town and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes from oil lamps to electricity and from an... more

Peace Poverty And Betrayal: A New History Of British India

Product Description How Can We Explain Britain S Long Rule In India Beyond The Cliches Of Imperial Versus Nationalist Interpretations? In This New History Roderick Matthews Tells A More Nuanced Story Of Oblige And Rule The Foundation Of Common... more

Pre-Owned America: A History of the United States: Volume 1: To 1877 (Paperback) 0130251569 9780130251565

Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge the result of detailed fieldwork Mans s book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of our musical worlds can be a transformative educational... more

The Cruise of the Quero : How We Carried the News to the King; a Neglected Chapter in Local History 1900 [Leather Bound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather Golden Screen printing in Front Color Leather Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition... more

America Calling : A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (Edition 1) (Paperback)

The telephone looms large in our lives as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology-how we encountered tested and ultimately embraced it with... more

Pre-Owned Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Hardcover) 1400067219 9781400067213

In this Sweeping Eloquent History of America Kurt Andersen demonstrates what s happening in our country today. This strange post-truth fake news moment we re all living through is not something entirely new but rather the ultimate expression of our... more

A System of Magick; or a History of the Black Art. Being an Historical Account of Mankind s Most Early Dealing With the Devil; and How the Acquaintance on Both Sides First Began... (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Studies in Canadian Military History: Making the Best of It : Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (Hardcover)

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which... more

Conversations with History (Paperback)

We followed the ups and downs of their lives in the media. We know about their mistakes their struggles and their joys. But have you ever wondered how celebrities and public figures would reflect on their lives since they passed? In an unprecedented... more

We ve Done Them Wrong!: A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them (Hardcover)

From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam Every Native American Must leave his home. l. Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed savage. Savage was how the New... more

Pre-Owned A Brief History of Mankind: 150 000 Years of Human History (Paperback) 0762436190 9780762436194

From the Stone Age to the Space Age--an entertaining journey through our own story that asks not just how we got here but also where are we going? In this thrilling introduction to the big ideas in history combining the latest research in history... more

Ecology & History: Inventing Global Ecology : Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India 1947–1997 (Paperback)

Inventing Global Ecology grapples with how we should understand the development of global ecology in the twentieth century. more

Critical Studies in Native History: A National Crime (Hardcover)

I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry. --Edward B. a student at Onion Lake School (1923) [I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis there is nothing finer in existance... more

Pre-Owned The Pursuit of History: Aims methods and new directions in the study of history (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical... more

Pre-Owned Slavery Resistance Freedom (Hardcover) 0195102223 9780195102222

Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech of religion of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular M: Spectacle Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain 1960-1990 (Hardcover)

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found and those are what this book examines. In dancing it answers how we moved... more

Social Glimpses of Iraq s Modern History- Iraq from 1920-1924 -- Ali Al-Wardi

To understand modern-day Iraq is to appreciate its formative years. How are we to understand the state of modern-day Iraq which for many observers appears - in various ways - broken divided and beholden to deep structural ailments? The famed Iraqi... more

The Hidden History of American Oligarchy (Paperback)

Thom Hartmann the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America-and how we can win the latest round. Billionaire oligarchs want to own our... more

A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Pre-Owned The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era (Paperback 9781905047208) by Steve Taylor

Primitive pre-civilization men and women lived longer healthier happier and more productive and fulfilled lives than we do. We need to learn from their approach to life rather than dismiss it. The roots of our current malaise lie in an ego explosion... more

Pre-Owned How We Got Here : The 70 s: the Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse) 9780465041961

For many the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first thematic popular history of the decade David Frum argues that it was the 1970s not the 1960s that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A... more

Pre-Owned The Lynching of Emmett Till : A Documentary Narrative 9780813921228

Exploring the means by which historical events become part of the collective social memory The Lynching of Emmett Till is both an anthology that tells an important story and a narrative about how we come to terms with key moments in history.... more