History and Archaeology
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the pe
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Book of Ancient Wisdom: Inspiring Quotations from the Greeks and Romans
Journey through the ages with a collection of memorable quotes featuring poets, playwrights, politicians, and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome. Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Epictetus, Euripides, Plutarch, Seneca, Socrates, Sophocles, and other iconic luminaries provide timeless insights that remain relevant in our twenty-first-century lives. Their profound words of advice resonate ac
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Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart
Dion Fortune was drawn again and again to Glastonbury. In Glastonbury -- Avalon of the Heart, she writes of her love affair with Glastonbury as "one of the secret green roads to the soul," providing as background the time honored legends of Joseph of Arimathaea, the Grail, and King Arthur. Her description remains one of the most evocative and poignant accounts of this" holiest earthe in England."
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African American Magick
An inspired herbal guide to natural living with ancient techniques, remedies, and rituals from around the world centered on the rhythms of the seasons.
The changing of the seasons is magickal—green leaves transforming into browns and golds, snow melting to show fresh buds. We all recognize these telltale signs, but few of us are aware of the powerful impact each season has on our
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Blackfoot physics - a journey into the native american universe
One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and native elders, he began to explore it in greater depth.
Blackfoot Physics is the account of his discoveries. In
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Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder keg.
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent Rick Yell has w
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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly
A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutin
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How the World Made the West
'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' (William Dalrymple), this epic debut from Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the Western world.
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The Far Edges of the Known World
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.
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The Rest is History Returns
The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying A-Z through the past
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Being Human: How our biology shaped world history
'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL
'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY
A revolutionary journey through time, showing how biology has shaped human history. This book will change your perspective. We are evolutionary wonders, yet flawed. Our bodies and minds fail, and to be human is to live with this contradiction. Being Human reveals how our nature shaped history, and still impacts progress today.
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The Golden Road
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highligh
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Private Revolutions
A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE
'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES
'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Inc
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Journey to Avalon: The Final Discovery of King Arthur
This book reveals the true identity of Arthur, and locates his courts and longforgotten battle sites such as Badon and Camlan. It also uncovers the secret of the mysterious Isle of Avalon and Arthur's resting place in a Breton church. The authors present a convincing and conclusive answer to the puzzle of King Arthur. Glossary of terms in Welsh and English. Bibliography. Index. 78 illustrations.
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages: The Assassins, the Templar & the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages explores the foundations of modern secret societies, examining the history and known facts of three very different organizations.
1. The Assassins of the Middle Easthow they evolved from an Islamic religious sect into one of the most feared groups in all the world and how the very name of this ancient order became the word used for political killings of this
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Siberian Shamanism : The Shanar Ritual of the Buryats
· Illustrated with vivid, full-colour photographs throughout · Details the many preparations and ritual objects as well as the struggles of the shamans to complete the ceremony successfully Near the radiant blue waters of Lake Baikal, in the lands where Mongolia, Siberia, and China meet, live the Buryats, an indigenous people little known to the Western world. After seventy years of religious pers
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Point of origin - gobekli tepe and the spiritual matrix for the worlds cosm
How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies? Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilisations of ancient Egypt, India, Tibet and China share sacred words and symbols? Revealing the existence of a long-forgotten primal culture and the world's first centre of higher learning, Laird Scranton shows how the sophisticated
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Sacred geometry of the earth - the ancient matrix of monuments and mountain
· Explains the geometry inherent in the mountains and coasts on all continents · Reveals how ancient monuments were built to reflect and enhance the Earth's design, often connecting sites around the world · Includes detailed maps that show the simple geometrical relationships among the world's mountains, coastlines, islands, and ancient monuments Order is everywhere on Earth. On remote islands, so
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Mystery of spring-heeled jack - from victorian legend to steampunk hero
Spring-Heeled Jack - a tall, thin, bounding figure with bat-like wings, clawed hands, wheels of fire for eyes and breath of blue flames - first leapt to public attention in Victorian London in 1838, springing over hedges and walls, from dark lanes and dank graveyards, to frighten and sometimes physically attack women. News of this strange and terrifying character quickly spread, but despite numero
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