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1421
Gavin Menzies $5.00Groundbreaking new discovery! As detailed in The Economist and recent headline news, Gavin Menzies (author of 1421: The Year China Discovered The World) has recently uncovered a copy of an 18th century map which definitively records the exploits of a Chinese explorer whose fleets roamed the oceans between 1405 and 1435. The map shows America, South America and other parts of the globe that were supposed to have been discovered decades later by Christopher Columbus. It is the final piece of evidence to underpin Gavin’s theory put forward in 1421: The Year China Discovered The World. In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly 500 feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe. When they returned, Zhu Di had lost power and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world. The great ships rotted and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia 350 years before Cook, and solved the problem of longitude 300 years before the Europeans. In this fascinating historical detective story, Gavin Menzies shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence supporting them.
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A History Of The World In 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor $5.00A golden galleon, a stone age tool, a credit card . . . every object tells a story. This acclaimed history tells the story of the world, and our place…
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America’s Queen: The Life Of Jacqueline Kennedy O
Sarah Bradford $12.50No Description Available
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American Indian Ecology
Jamake Highwater, Johnson Donald Hughes $6.00No Description Available
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Apache Wars : An Illustrated Battle History
Ernest Lisle Reedstrom $4.00Apache overview and early history — Geronimo — General Georgew Crook and the 1872 campaign — Arizona camps and forts — The Indian wars in Arizona …
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Creek Mary’s Blood
Dee $3.00No Description Available
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Dinosaur In A Haystack : Reflections In Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould $8.00Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey the infectious enthusiasm for fossils and evolutionary theory that has made his books award-winning, national best-sellers. In his latest musings on evolution and other natural phenomena, Gould reveals the uncanny interconnections among distinctly human creations – museums, literature, music, politics, and culture – encompassing a delightfully, wide range of topics, from giant fossils, fads, and fungus to baseball, beeswax, and blaauwbocks, from a humanistic look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Erasmus Darwin’s poetry to the fallacies of eugenics and creationism and the moral imperatives of thinking people to meet the ethical challenges that pseudo-science presents.
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Dreamwalker
Mary Summer Rain $6.00What is a Dreamwalker? They are the rare few who, as Mary Summer Rain describes them, are “led by the spirit, ‘ have “shed the yoke of desire and self…
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History In 100 Numbers : Numerical Snapshots Of The Last 2,000 Years
Joel Levy $8.00No Description Available
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Illustrated Atlas Of The Civil War
Time Life Books $7.00Illustrated atlas of the Civil War with maps of battles and campaigns in the eastern and western theaters, the coast, and the far west.
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Leonardo’s Mountain Of Clams And The Diet Of Worms : Essays On Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould $10.00A collection of essays by scientist Stephen Jay Gould about how humans learned to study and understand nature.
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Measuring America
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Mythology Of The Blackfoot Indians
Clark Wissler, D. C. Duvall $22.00This volume contains three parts by various authors. The first part discusses the mythology of the Blackfoot Indians. The second part examines the Nor…
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Native Americans
Arlene B. Hirschfelder $10.00Features major events and figures in Native American history, from the first contact with Europeans to Native Americans’ role in contemporary society,…
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On The Trail Of Genghis Khan
Tim Cope $14.00An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
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Ontogeny And Phylogeny
Stephen Jay Gould $10.00No Description Available
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Political And Social Life In The Great Age Of Athens
Open University $10.00A Source Book
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Soul Sounds
Mary Summer Rain $6.00Mourning the Tears of Truth
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Take Me To Russia
Simpson $55.00No Description Available
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Tales Of Native America
Edward W. Huffstetler $6.00An introduction to the fascinating world of Native American mythology.
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The Buffalo Commons
Euan Cameron, Richard S. Wheeler $10.00A novel pitting a family of farmers and ranchers and a visionary billionaire against each other in a battle for land, the environment, and ultimately …
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The Cherokees
Grace Steele Woodward $10.00Traces the history of the Cherokee nation from the early sixteenth century, focusing on the forces which shaped their cultural evolution.
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The Comanche Empire (the Lamar Series In Western
Pekka Hämäläinen $2.00No Description Available
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The Dinosaur Project: The Story Of The Greatest D
Wayne Grady $8.00No Description Available
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The Irish Brigade
Russ A. Pritchard $8.00A Full-Color History for Civil War Enthusiasts, History Buffs, and Anyone Interested in the Saga of the Irish in America! The Union’s Irish Brigade, the Civil War’s most famous fighting outfit, built an unusual reputation for dash and gallantry having fought throughout the war, from First Bull Run in 1861 to the Confederate surrender and Appomattox Court House in 1865. Here is the gripping true story, replete with stunning full-color illustrations, of all Irish regiments from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York serving under the direction of the Brigade’s most famous commander, General Thomas Francis Meagher. This meticulously researched text features complete and detailed accounts of the Brigade’s battles and skirmishes, from Bull Run to Yorktown to Peach Orchard to Malvern Hill to Antietam to Petersburg—to name a few. This powerful, authoritative volume captures the heart and tireless effort of the heroic men who rescued the Union from defeat time and time again—enthralling reading with authentic accompanying illustrations that will fascinate everyone from the biggest history buffs to the occasional layman interested in the history of Irish-Americans or the Civil War.
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The North American Indians In Early Photographs
Euan Cameron, Judith Luskey, Paula Richardson Fleming $20.00No Description Available
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The Riddle Of The Titanic
Dan van der Vat, Robin Gardiner $10.00Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin …
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The Trail Of Tears
Gloria Jahoda $10.00An angry narrative of the forcible uprooting and often brutal removal of more than fifty Indian tribes and groups originally located east of the Missi…
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The University From Ancient Greece To The 20th Century
Glenys Patterson $6.00The evolution of the University, from its origins in Ancient Greece to modern times.
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When The Night Bird Sings
Joyce Hifler $4.00Joyce Sequichie Hifler tells the story of her own childhood in the Oklahoma hills of Cherokee Country. A gracefully written story of contemporary Nati…
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Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale And The Nature Of History
Stephen Jay Gould $5.00Explains why the diversity of the Burgess Shale is important in understanding our past and evolution.