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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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National Geographic The British World: An Illustrated Atlas
Tim Jepson · National Geographic, 2015.
Pages: 352 Format: Map
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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
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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
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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
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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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