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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 681
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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Wood for the trees : one man's long view of nature
Richard Fortey · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland... |
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949
Richard Reeves · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II - pilots, navigators, and mechanics - who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report... |
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The King's Revenge Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Don Jordan · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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When Charles I was executed, his sonCharles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggestmanhunt Britain had ever seen, one that wouldspan Europe and America and wouldlast for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors... |
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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Socialites and Scofflaws - Avon Lake's Past
Sherry Newman Spenzer · CreateSpace
Pages: 118
Format: Print book
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Avon Lake's history is the tale of a dual citizenry that evolved uneasily side by side. Wealthy urbanites and vacationing tourists in search of country homes edged out farmers and lake boat captains as they claimed possession of Erie's shore. An electric railway fed a new "sub-city"... |
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
Farida Khalaf · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors.In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with... |
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5 Steps to a 5 AP World History 2017
Peggy Martin · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Get ready for your AP World History exam with this straightforward, easy-to-follow study guide--updated to match the latest test changes The wildly popular test prep guide -- updated and enhanced for smartphone users -- 5 Steps to a 5: AP World History 2017 provides a proven strategy to achieving... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until... |
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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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The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
Philip Ball · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history.... |
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The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations
Neil Kagan · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history. From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous... |
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Randall Fuller · Viking
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race"A lively and informative history." - The New York Times Book ReviewThroughout its history America has been torn in two by debates... |
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