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AP U.S. History 2017-2018
Krista Dornbush · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 612
Format: Print book
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The Advanced Placement test preparation guide that delivers 75 years of proven Kaplan experience and features exclusive strategies, practice, and review to help students ace the AP U.S. History exam! Students spend the school year preparing for the AP U.S. History test. Now it's time... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Edward Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie," was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Waffen-SS: Hitler's Army at War
Adrian Gilbert · Da Capo Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SSThe Waffen-SS was one of the most feared combat organizations of the twentieth century. Originally formed as a protection... |
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Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk
Alison Plowden · Franklin Watts; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Treats the family of the House of SUffolk as a whole, set in its historical perspective, with particular emphasis on Jane Grey, the doomed Nine Days Queen. |
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God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador
Kathryn T. Long · Oxford University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish... |
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Clans and Tartans: Traditional Scottish Tartans
Scottish Tartans Authority. · HarperCollins UK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Produced in association with the Scottish Tartans Authority, this Little Book focuses on the history of the world famous Scottish tartan. Over 100 clans are presented, with their tartan, crest, motto, and Gaelic clan name. It also covers the history of tartan and how it plays its part in the traditional... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil,... |
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae · The Overlook Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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The Italians of Niagara Falls, Photo Album, Vol. III
Michelle Ann Kratts · Michelle Kratts
Pages: 91
Format: Print book
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The Italians of Niagara Falls, Volume III, Photo Album, is the third book in a series of histories of the Italians of Niagara Falls, New York. |
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Muscle Cars: Style, Power, and Performance
Jim Glastonbury · Chartwell Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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Muscle cars are loud, proud, and in your face, with no other pretensions than to be just that. They may be simple, even crude, but for roaring, pumping, tire-smoking standing starts, they are the business.Muscle cars are a quintessentially North American phenomenon, owing their outrageous... |
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