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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe	Joshua A. Sanborn,Annette F. Timm	Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engagi…	OL13671147W
A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England	Strong Woman.,Moondancer.	See http://www.bauuinstitute.com/Publishing/NewEnglandNative.html	OL15297410W
101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History	Amy Hackney Blackwell,Ryan Hackney,Garland, Ph.D. Kimmer	xi, 244 p. ; 16 cm	OL16813557W
Humanist educational treatises	Craig Kallendorf,Craig W. Kallendorf,Battista Guarino,Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini,Pier Paolo Vergerio,Leonardo Bruni	"The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and sch…	OL18521321W
The Sistine secrets	Roy Doliner,Benjamin Blech	Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world-the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michel…	OL1950532W
Culture and the Cuban Revolution	Leonardo Padura Fuentes,John M. Kirk	"This unusual collaboration between a Cuban novelist and a Canadian professor offers uncensored and frank interviews with prominent figures of contemporary Cuban cultural life, from a Grammy-winning …	OL2368598W
The ancient Maya	Robert Sharer,Loa Traxler,Robert J. Sharer	"Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geog…	OL2981697W
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Andrew Cunningham,Ole Peter Grell,Cunningham, Andrew Dr.	Its very good and intresting	OL3349461W
The pessimist's guide to history	Stuart Berg Flexner,Doris Flexner	The classic irreverent look at the past — now updated with even more appalling facts!Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded — and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular…	OL3527545W
Historia de la FAI	Juan Gómez Casas	Anarchist Organisation is the first English-language history of the 30,000-member Federacion Anarquista Ibérica (F.A.I.), the unique organisation of Spanish anarchists based on autonomous affinity …	OL3603393W
The rise and fall of the Soviet economy	Phillip Hanson,Philip Hanson	xii, 279 p. : 24 cm	OL4121792W
In the land of white death	Valerian Albanov,Linda Dubosson,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov	In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prov…	OL4182186W
Knives and scabbards	J. Cowgill,M. de Neergaard,Nick Griffiths	xiii, 169 p. : 26 cm	OL5053232W
Rosie's mom	Meredith Cary,Carrie Brown	Although the World War II posters of Rosie the Riveter and Wendy the Welder remind us of the women who contributed to the nation's war effort in the 1940s, the women workers of World War I are nearly…	OL5352336W
Fort Riley	Robert Smith undifferentiated,William McKale	143 p. : 23 cm	OL545309W
The African heritage	H. Moyana,M. Sibanda,S. D. Gumbo	First in a series of African history books, this volume examines the changes in Africa from the earliest people to the development of the slave trade.	OL5641708W
Conspiracy theories & secret societies for dummies	Christopher Hodapp,Alice Von Kannon	Entering the world of conspiracy theories and secret societies is like stepping into a distant, parallel universe where the laws of physics have completely changed: black means white, up is down, and…	OL8513720W
Gods & pharaohs from Egyptian mythology	David O'Connor,Geraldine Harris	Presents the myths of the ancient Egyptians and a glimpse of the civilization that created them.	OL921504W
Petra	Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo,Eugenia Equini Schneider,Stella Maris Bertinelli	"If ever a dead city held romance it is Petra. . . . Hewn out of ruddy rock in the midst of a mountain wilderness, sumptuous in ornament and savage in environs, poised in wildness like a great carved…	OL978220W