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The Time Traveler's Handbook: 18 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock
Johnny Actonis · Harper Design
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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Travel through time to witness some of the most extraordinary and colorful events in world history with this unusual and entertaining guide that includes fascinating cultural details from each period, including what and where to eat, what to wear, how to act like a local, and most importantly,... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows... |
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Blood royal : a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris
Eric Jager · Little
Format: Book
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On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost... |
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Tara Zahra · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"With a combination of deft historical analysis, sparkling prose, and careful attention to individual stories, both poignant and instructive, The Great Departure is brimming with important and suggestive lessons from the past for thinking about the worldwide dynamics of emigrants and refugees... |
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
DAVID FRYE · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey... |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
John A Nagy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary... |
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Kai Hinton · Harvard University Press
Pages: 449
Format: Print book
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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem... |
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
JAMES M SCOTT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfill his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard... |
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