History

The Only True People

by Bethany J. Beyyette – Open BookShelf (December 10, 2018)

In The Only True People, a multidisciplinary group of archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers evaluate views of Maya history and prehistory in order to more accurately characterize...

Are We Not Foreigners Here?

by Jeffrey Schulze – Open BookShelf (December 10, 2018)

This book examines efforts by Indigenous Yaqui, Kickapoo, and Tohono O'odham people to maintain sovereignty and identity by utilizing the unique nature and sociopolitical dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands....

Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France

by Sarah Horowitz – Open BookShelf (December 10, 2018)

In Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France, Horowitz brings together the political and cultural history of post-revolutionary France to show how French society responded to and recovered from the...

On the Heavens

by Aristotle – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle, 384-322 BCE – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle; translated by W. D. Ross

On Interpretation

by Aristotle, 384-322 BCE – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

On Interpretation / Aristotle; translated by E. M. Edghill

The Categories

by Aristotle, 384-322 BCE – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

Categories / Aristotle; translated by E. M. Edghill

On longevity and shortness of life

by Aristotle, 384-322 BCE – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

On longevity and shortness of life / Aristotle; translated by G. R. T. Ross

Marquise de Brinvilliers

by Alexandre Dumas – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Marquise Brinvillier by Alexandre Dumas

Excerpt: he then apparently confined his attention to the woman who was still in the carriage; then he returned to his first question. "This is all very well, sir," he...

The Historical Nights' Entertainment

by Rafael Sabatini – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

In approaching "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the colour available from surviving records, a group of more or less...

The Code of Hammurabi

by Hammurabi – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete...

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on...