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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through... |
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A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
Gill Paul · Firefly Books Ltd.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Praise for A History of Music in 50 Instruments, also in this series: "Wilkinson's history unfolds like a symphonic work with instrument makers, composers and virtuosic performers picking up these incredible creations and exposing their beauty and capability. To open it up is to be instantly... |
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The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd · Bloomsbury
Pages: 415
Format: Print book
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In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
Karen J Greenberg · Crown Publishers
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack... |
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · Dk Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of the Vietnam War.Filled with more... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
Malcolm Lambert · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin:... |
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