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Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother

Stanley A. Goldman · Potomac Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Stanley A. Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend's daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented activities of one man's...
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

Lisa McGirr · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this...
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments

Lynne Kelly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals...
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Buried Beneath Cleveland:

William G. Krejci · Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

The dead do not always rest in peace. Occasionally, they wind up in the backyard. As towns grew in Cuyahoga County during the late 1800s, many of its cemeteries were relocated to make room for urban sprawl. But not all of these graves made the journey. Author William G. Krejci tracks down...
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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

Daria Roithmayr · BiblioBazaar
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover

This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little...
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

Simon Winder · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 551
Format: Hardcover

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,...
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The Complete Book of US Presidents

Bill Yenne · Zenith Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this momentous election year, experience the history and personal stories of all 44 U.S. Presidents in this beautifully illustrated edition.From the first president, George Washington, to the most recent, Barack Obama, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office....
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline · National Geographic
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece...
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse

Piu Marie Eatwell · Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled, and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras  In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation...
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Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

Sarah Garland · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially...
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National Geographic The British World: An Illustrated Atlas

Tim Jepson · National Geographic, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Map

Spanning wars, religious controversies, revolutions, and more, The British World is a visual jewel illuminating the history of this fascinating land - and an essential reference to be treasured by history lovers young and old. The authoritative content, unearthed across thousands of years,...
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

James Lee Mcdonough · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures.

General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight...
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi

Larry Hancock · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness...
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first...
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Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America

Nathaniel R Jones · The New Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America - a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most...
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