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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,... |
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Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary: A Half-Century of Rage and Reform
Anne Butler · University of Louisiana
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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One tried to swim his way out, masquerading in woman's finery that dragged him beneath the raging waters of the Mississippi River. Others tried to rehabilitate their ways out, only to find themselves after all still mired inescapably in the turbulent murky quagmire of Louisiana politics.... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
DIANE ACKERMAN · W W NORTON
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabiński (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh) , have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
Walter Lord · Open Road Media
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback
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The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming... |
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Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne
Christopher Everette Cenac · University Press of Mississippi/J.P.C.,L.L.C.
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover
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In the year 1860, Jean-Pierre Cenac sailed from the sophisticated French city of Bordeaux to begin his new life in the city with the second busiest port of debarkation in the U.S. Two years before, he had descended the Pyrenees to Bordeaux from his home village of Barbazan-Debat, a terrain... |
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What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition
John C. Poppeliers · Wiley
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Architectural style is defined as a definite type of architecture, distinguished by special characteristics of structure and ornament. This revised edition of What Style Is It? includes new sections on Neoclassical, Romanesque and Rustic Styles. It also provides more examples of how pure... |
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The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic
Alan Gurney · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating account of the early days of Antarctic exploration from an expert storyteller. In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and untapped region especially enticing.... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Vintage
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookSHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's Maureen... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George... |
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