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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick · Anchor Books
Pages: 384
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WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION"A Best Book of 2015" - The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus ReviewsIn a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick... |
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A Concise History of Italy
Christopher Duggan · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 250
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Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present... |
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Josiah Ober · Princeton University Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover |
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Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses... |
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
Mark M. Smith · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste... |
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Wall Streeters: The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance
Edward Morris · Columbia University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics--many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward... |
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle... |
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U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, March-November 1864
Raymond K. Bluhm Jr. , · Dept. of the Army; None, First edition
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, March–November 1864, by Raymond K. Bluhm Jr., covers Union and Confederate military operations in the Shenandoah Valley region of southwestern Virginia, and in Maryland and Washington, D.C., during the last full year of the conflict. Bluhm describes... |
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