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Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
Mimi Swartz · Crown Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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It wasn't supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn't the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult... |
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Civil War Journal: The Leaders
William C Davis · Rutledge Hill Press Pages: 463 Format: Print book
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This is the first book in a series of three developed from the popular History Channel series Civil War Journal. The Leaders explores the Federals and Confederates who had the greatest influence on how the war was fought. Illustrated and indexed. |
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The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
Mark Kurlansky · Riverhead Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author. In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life.... |
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Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
Anna Porter · Walker & Co. Pages: 431 Format: Print book
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The heroic story of the "Hungarian Oscar Schindler" who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in Israel twelve years after WWII ended. Oscar Schindler's and Raoul Wallenberg's... |
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw · Viking Pages: 592 Format: Print book
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"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking ... . Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."... |
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Great Battles of World War I
Anthony Livesey · Macmillan Pages: 200 Format: Book
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As with all the Great Battles books, Great Battles of World War I offers a new and uniquely accurate picture of 21 key campaigns of the First World War. More than 200 illustrations. |
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The Pharaoh: Life at Court and On Campaign
Garry J Shaw · Thames & Hudson Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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A highly illustrated look at what it was like to be the pharaoh of Egypt, revealed through the king's role as husband, lawmaker, judge, priest, builder, and warrior The pharaoh is the iconic ruler from the ancient world, immortalized in stone and gold and celebrated today in countless... |
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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Kenneth G Langone · Portfolio Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades,... |
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Revolution
Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was -- again -- at war with France, a war that would end with... |
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