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New Titles - History
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Weapons of Mass Destruction: Specters of the Nuclear Age
Martin Miller · Schiffer Military History
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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FOREWORD by Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: "A unique and powerful book -- a source for our understanding and a memento mori, to remind us of where we are and what the future might hold, for good or for ill."DESCRIPTION: The Nuclear... |
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
Robert Kagan · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows... |
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Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
Jackie Speier · Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult... |
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The Order of the Day
ERIC VUILLARD · Other Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt, this behind-the-scenes account of the manipulation, hubris, and greed that together led to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria brilliantly dismantles the myth of an effortless victory and offers a dire warning for our current political crisis.February... |
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The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
David Gilmour · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to IndependenceWho of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary?... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
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Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss · Crown
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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