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New Titles - History
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
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In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England's medieval queens to life. The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Deborah Cadbury · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power,... |
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lydia Kang · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison... |
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
Chip Colwell · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
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Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit · National Geographic
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition... |
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor · Amistad
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow... |
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