Includes multiple voices and perspectives: women, peasants, novelists and short-story writers, dissenters, officials, business leaders, samurai
Each chapter contains 20 to 30 quotations from prim ... Read more
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Written by one of America's foremost Lincoln scholars, a brief, brilliant portrait of our sixteenth President
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank ... Read more
Most comprehensive reference work on beer ever published
Over 1,100 entries by renowned beer experts across the globe
Entries on every aspect of beer, including chemical, technical, social, cul ... Read more
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Winner of the 2011 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award for the Best Popular Book on Archaeology
This topic has broad general appeal. Television documentaries about biblical arch ... Read more
Introduces the reader to an important but relatively unknown part of the world
Traces Central Asian history from early human settlement to the development of unique modes of adaptation to a diffi ... Read more
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Places family and household dynamics at the center of historical transformation
Covers a broad chronological and geographic scope
Pays close attention to a variety of historical sources and app ... Read more
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Audiences engaged in the Silk Road thanks to major museum exhibitions and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project can here find a concise historical survey
Demonstrates the intrinsic connections between eco ... Read more
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Inclusive coverage of all parts of the Atlantic world
Uses examples of individuals caught up in larger historical patterns
Explores the influence of commodities on the formation of relationship ... Read more
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A wildly optimistic book, this study looks forward to the ability of ordinary people to solve the political, social, sexual, and environmental problems that seem to threaten human life as we know i ... Read more
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Integrates the latest scholarship on relevant topics ranging from Mexico's ancient societies to contemporary migration issues and drug violence.
Provides a necessary context for understanding the ... Read more
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