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From the first kings of the Nile to the modern republic: the complete story of Egypt in one illustrated volume.For more than five thousand years, a single river has shaped one of the longest-running stories on Earth. EGYPT follows that story from the farming villages of the Nile Valley, through the pyramid builders and the empire of the pharaohs, to the Greek, Roman, Christian, Islamic and Ottoman worlds, and on to the modern republic.Along the way you will meet Imhotep and...

From the first colonies to the present day: the story of the United States in one illustrated volume.AMERICA follows the nation from the Native peoples and English settlers of the colonial era through the Revolution, the Constitution, the Civil War, two world wars, the Cold War and the early twenty-first century. It is a story of presidents and founders, generals and inventors, reformers and ordinary families.You will stand in the Assembly Room at Independence Hall, at Sara...

From a small island in a lake to the greatest city in the Americas, and the siege that ended it: the complete story of the Mexica in one illustrated volume."Aztec" is the name the modern world gave them. They called themselves Mexica, and from their island capital of Tenochtitlan they and their allies in Texcoco and Tlacopan built the Triple Alliance, a tribute empire that stretched across central and southern Mexico. AZTEC follows the story from the long migration and the founding...

From a wolf-suckled myth on the banks of the Tiber to the fall of Constantinople two thousand years later: the complete story of Rome in one illustrated volume.SPQR tells the whole arc, not just the highlight reel. It follows the Republic that conquered a sea, the emperors who inherited it, and the slow, uneven collapse that followed, then keeps going to trace the Eastern Empire that carried the Roman name for another thousand years.You will meet Romulus, Hannibal, Scipio, ...

There was never one Native America. There were, and are, hundreds of nations, each with its own language, government, homeland and history. This illustrated volume tells their story from the first peoples to the 575 federally recognized tribal nations of today.The book begins with the mound builders of Poverty Point, Adena, Hopewell and Cahokia and the great houses of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. It then travels through the homelands of the Arctic, Northwest Coast, California, the ...

Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.After successfully breaking the Confederate siege at Chattanooga near the end of 1863, William Tecumseh Sherman united several Union armies in the Western theater for the Atlanta Campaign, forming one of the biggest armies in American history. After detaching troops for essential garrisons and minor operations, Sherman assembled his nearly 100,000 men ...

Spells can be lost to time, but magic is never truly forgotten.For fans of Outlander and A Discovery of Witches, with the atmospheric appeal of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Forgotten Magic Trilogy blends Celtic folklore, historical fantasy, and time travel romance.Helen Kent never dares to step outside her comfort zone. She lives a lonely life in the city, grinding through her uninspiring marketing job. ...

There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee hous...

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 183121 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker… n 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which beca...

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Mapes Dodge (26 January 183121 August 1905) was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker… n 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which beca...

A road trip novel from the author of Fup that "reads like Kerouac's On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson" ( The Plain Dealer).George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. ...

The classic mystery that inspired the Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock."Le Chat" is a legend. He is a mystery. He is a jewel thief, famous and elusive for being able to swipe anything and get away clean. He is John Robie, retired and living a quiet life, tending his rose garden in the South of France.But his retirement plans are thrown for a loop when a series of robberies too closely resemble the work of "Le Chat," and the police start digging ...