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How to take over the world : practical schemes and scientific solutions for the aspiring supervillain

Ryan North; Carly Monardo - ‎Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover‏

"A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true potential of today's most advanced technologies. Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating...

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

Thomas Helling - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I.The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare...

To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

Carole Emberton - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest -- along with other formerly enslaved people -- to define freedom after the Civil War.Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding...

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival

Walter Stahr - ‎Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States.Salmon P. Chase...

Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures

Tegan Kehoe - ‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs. Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts...

Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

Nancy Rubin Stuart - ‎Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America's famous scientist and founding father.Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin - the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era - but not about his love life. Poor Richard's Women reveals the long-neglected...

The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori

Cristina De Stefano - Other Press
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer...

Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania (American Heritage)

Mark Lanyon - The History Press
Format: Paperback

Chester County was home to a diverse patchwork of religious communities, antislavery activists and free Black populations, all working to end the blight of slavery during the Civil War era. Kennett Square was known as the "hotbed of abolitionism," with more Underground Railroad...

Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

Susan Jonusas - ‎Viking
Format: Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier - shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside...

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