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The uses and abuses of history The uses and abuses of history Margaret Olwen Macmillan History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievan… OL12255208W
Il filo e le tracce Il filo e le tracce Carlo Ginzburg,Carlo Ginzburg "Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of… OL13417890W
Türk tarih tezi ve Mu kıtası Türk tarih tezi ve Mu kıtası Kemal Şenoğlu Under the influence of James Churchward and his theory on the allegedly lost civilization of Mu, in the 1930s Ataturk sent Tahsin Mayatepek to Mexico as an ambassador, so that he could carry out a co… OL13599780W
It Seemed Like a Good Idea.. It Seemed Like a Good Idea.. William R. Forstchen,Bill Fawcett Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions--and sometimes the worst--have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-fille… OL14909880W
Histories and fallacies Histories and fallacies Carl R. Trueman How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past? Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological probl… OL15488688W
How George Washington fleeced the nation How George Washington fleeced the nation Phil Mason Collects obscure trivia about historical figures, from President Lyndon Johnson's poor phone etiquette to Albert Einstein's habit of forgetting his shoes. OL15975329W
Inventing a Christian America Inventing a Christian America Steven K. Green Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political comment… OL17639327W
How they choked How they choked Georgia Bragg Presents a humorous look at the flaws and foibles of some of the most famous personalities of history, including such figures as Marco Polo, George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Edison, and Amelia Earhart. OL17891968W
History's worst decisions and the people who made them History's worst decisions and the people who made them Stephen Weir "History is strewn with mistakes. Many of them were made by well-intentioned people who were bright, intelligent, capable--but who just made the wrong decision. Many of them fall into the simplest ca… OL18163464W
You are being lied to You are being lied to Russ Kick Do you believe any of the following? Alcoholics Anonymous is effective. Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation. There's a hidden code in the Bible. Thousands of species have become extinct because… OL18199409W
The historian as detective The historian as detective Robin W. Winks Essays by noted historians of the past and present, on the problems of investigation, offer a series of intriguing case studies in the relationship between historical research and detective fiction. OL19308123W
The secret history of the world The secret history of the world Mark Booth "From mystic revelations to esoteric codes, here for the first time is a history of the world based upon the beliefs of the secret societies -- a radical re-interpretation of human existence and a vi… OL19953017W
Groundless Groundless Gregory Evans Dowd "Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by… OL20020293W
Facts and fallacies Facts and fallacies Chris Morgan Logic concepts are more mainstream than you may realize. There's logic every place you look and in almost everything you do, from deciding which shirt to buy to asking your boss for a raise, and even… OL3232351W
Ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions, and other popular theories about man's past Ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions, and other popular theories about man's past William H. Stiebing Discusses various accounts of the flood around the world and the quest for Noah's Ark, Atlantis, Velikovsky and his theories of cosmic catastrophism, the search for ancient astronauts in the Bible, t… OL3496435W
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask Thomas E. Woods Guess what? The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states' rights--an idea reviled today--were even more important than the Const… OL5719110W
Communal Politics Communal Politics Ram Puniyani With reference to india. OL5760499W
Heroines and history Heroines and history Colin MacMillan Coates "Heroines and History is a co-authored, comparative study of the images of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord, symbols respectively of French-Canadian and English-Canadian loyalism and nationali… OL6016740W
The secret history of the world The secret history of the world Mark Booth They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history-or what we come to know as history-has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the st… OL8560858W