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History Of God : The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Published: 1993-09-28
Hardcover: 460 pages
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"Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism," Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work A History of God. Armstrong considers herself a "historian of ideas," and with this broad view she gives a compelling account of t...
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
Published: 2008-05-05
Hardcover: 352 pages
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History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced
Published: 1996-08
Hardcover: 506 pages
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The History of Love: A Novel
Published: 2006-05-17
Kindle Edition: 272 pages
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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But ...
The History of Now
Published: 2009-03-01
Hardcover: 296 pages
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Small. almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, an...
A History of Pi
Published: 1976-07-15
Paperback: 208 pages
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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress -- and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism...
A History of Reading
Published: 1998
Paperback: 0 pages
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The History of Swimming: A Memoir
Published: 2007-09-20
Paperback: 288 pages
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The History of Swimming details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim -- his best friend, his greatest enemy -- who disappears from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim -- almost mystically -- imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of...
The History of Texas
Published: 2007-08-30
Paperback: 503 pages
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The principle that all people make history continues to drive the Fourth Edition of our well-loved text, one that continues to consider the different cultures within the state as well as the unique heritage shared by all Texans. Unlike other surveys of the Lone Star State, "The History of Texas" goes...
A History of the Wife
Published: 2002-02-01
Paperback: 464 pages
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How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procr...
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