History & Archaeology Books

These letters were discovered in an Army Air Force footlocker after being locked away for almost 80 years. Follow the story of one World War 2 Army Air Force soldier, Glenn Max Whitacre, from Bowling Green Ohio through basic training, schooling, combat...

The Deadliest Shootout in St. Louis Police HistoryA daring train robbery. Desperate criminals. The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. These events collided to create the deadliest shootout in St. Louis Police History.Read this detailed true crime account with...

The Diary of "Sailor Pete" on the USS Monterey and his adventures at sea as a young man from a small town in Indiana. Historical and personal insights including his own hand written diary about his love to his wife Betty and their children!USS Monterey...

Spencer traces the full story of this historic ship from its conception and construction in 1799 to its ultimate demise in 1823, when she was stranded and broke up on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies."History enthusiasts and those...

Theo đánh giá của Tỳ kheo Ni - Ni trưởng Thích Nữ Nguyên Thanh (Trụ trì chùa An Lạc ở San Jose, Hoa Kỳ) thì "Tập sách NI GIỚI VIỆT NAM HOẰNG PHÁP TẠI HOA KỲ... là một bước đầu tiên phong và là sự đóng góp tích cực cho một bức tranh sinh động của Ni Giới...

Le volume 5 de la série Le conflit des âges poursuit l'histoire de la controverse entre Dieu et Satan jusqu'à sa conclusion ultime et glorieuse. Commençant par la destruction de Jérusalem et se poursuivant par les persécutions des chrétiens dans l'Empire...

I wrote this book not only as a requirement for my master's degree in 1959 but because of my interest in European history. I conducted my research at the State Department of the United States. There, I examined the numerous documents sent by the American...

On July 26, 1854, World Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey challenged part-time prize-fighter and New York Whig enforcer William "Bill the Butcher" Poole to a street fight. The fight at the Amos Street Pier proved humiliating for the champion. The bad...

Wyatt Earp and his brothers came to Tombstone to invest in recently opened silver mines and real estate, to get a share of newly discovered wealth and prosperity, and not to continue their law enforcement career. However, they soon realized that on one...

This book is not about management by objectives. And, although I made more than 50 acquisitions for Dunn Construction, you won't read much about financial analysis. I hardly mention discounted cash flow or return on investment (ROI). That doesn't mean...

Take the New York Notary Public Exam with Confidence!Do you want to be your own boss and make an excellent income with almost zero overhead?Are you curious about the laws and regulations surrounding the office of a Notary Public?Ready to learn all the...

Going from cornfield to battlefield, Prairie Soldier depicts the experiences of a young man as he meets the reality of the Korean War. It is a soldier's tale providing insight into historical events in an exceptional way. Of interest to laypersons too,...

William Eggleston is one of the most influential Photographers alive today. Who's Murderabilia in his films, fine art photography, Portrait Exhibitions and Books have shocked all that have come to know his work.In this True Crime Novella about fine art...

This book is a history of severe weather in the snowbelt regions to the lee of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in New York State from 1798 to 2022. It contains the history of weather observation in the region and the chronology and analysis of major weather...

The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual...

First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of 'racial' representation and anti-racism. The second half of the book is devoted to interview-based exploration of...

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour.

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in...

Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the...

This volume begins with the Byzantine Empire and moves through the Crusader States, the Islamic World, South and East Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and lastly Western and Eastern Europe. It provides students and scholars with the perfect reference...

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of...

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually.

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to...

The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, as well as the possessor of large quantities of oil and gas in its territorial...

This book examines different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020-2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India's post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of various...

This book uses the 'strategic-relational approach' to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US ballistic missile defence system in order to maintain national security and to uphold the...

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus - embedded in Paul's letters and the New Testament Gospels - represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the...

Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with men and women of recent wars and military conflicts. The book provides a structured methodology for building interest and trust among veterans to...