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  • The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Night Battles

    Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    A remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe.Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society Menocchio lived in.For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Return of Martin Guerre

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent.Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land provides a brilliant ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How To Be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Norman Conquest

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King

    by Mike Pitts ...
    The story of the archaeology behind the dig that found Richard III, told through a fascinating array of photographs, diagrams, and firsthand accountsIn August 2012 a search began and on February 4, 2013 a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room, watched by media studios around the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose history is perhaps the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Outer Temple of Witchcraft

    Circles, Spells and Rituals

    Series Book 4 - Penczak Temple Series
    As you enter the heart of witchcraft, you find at its core the power of sacred space. In Christopher Penczak's first book, The Inner Temple of Witchcraft, you found the sacred space within yourself. Now The Outer Temple of Witchcraft helps you manifest the sacred in the outer world through ritual and spellwork. The book's twelve lessons, with exercises, rituals, and homework, follow the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Collection Of Atlantis

    Collection Of AtlantisThis collection have 15 In-Apps books and they are :-A Dweller on Two Planets :- A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.Atlantida :- A harrowing trip through the Sahara to ... Atlantis, and the strange allure of its ultimate queen.Atlantis, the Antediluvian ... Read more

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  • Telling the Truth about History

    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist ... Read more

    $16.39 USD