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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
John Warren · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book |
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At its opening in 1964, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was named one of the Five Wonders of the Modern World by Readers Digest magazine. It was the culmination of a concerted, decade-long push by a group of men, led by Lucius J. Kellam Jr., an Eastern Shore native and businessman who dreamed... |
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Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture
Sarah Amato · University of Toronto Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures - as well as their representations - became commodities within... |
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The Great War and the Middle East
Rob Johnson · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalized old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence... |
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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources
Shana Hertz Hattis · Bernan Press
Pages: 230
Format: Print book |
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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics in one easy-to-follow, useful, and informative volume. Data related to veterans is scattered between federal departments. This volume's mission is to present the most pertinent... |
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Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon
Randy Johnson · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily recognized landmark along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a popular tourist destination, a site... |
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The Golden Thread: A History of Writing
Ewan Clayton · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself.Calligraphy... |
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The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog
Rien Fertel · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In the spirit of the oral historians who tracked down and told the stories of America's original bluesmen, this is a journey into the southern heartland (the Pork Belt) to discover the last of the great roadside whole hog pitmasters who hold onto the heritage and the secrets of America's... |
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Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
Walter Schneir · Melville House
Format: Print book |
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A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the bestselling Invitation to an InquestWalter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius... |
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Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
Terry Golway · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover |
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A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine -- Tammany Hall -- revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics. For decades, history has considered Tammany Hall, New York's famous political machine, shorthand... |
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The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told
Tom McCarthy · Lyons Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes... |
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