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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages

Max Adams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,...
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Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241

John Haywood · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power...
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The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes

Mary Stockwell · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States' policy to force native populations to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The most well-known episode in the eviction...
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Asne Seierstad · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded...
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Patton at the Battle of the Bulge: How the General's Tanks Turned the Tide at Bastogne

Leo Barron · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

December 1944. For the besieged American defenders of Bastogne, time was running out....Hitler’s forces had pressed in on the small Belgian town in a desperate offensive designed to push back the Allies, starting the Battle of the Bulge. So far the U.S. soldiers had managed to repel...
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Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

Stacey Margolis · Cambridge University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It argues that fiction, in its freedom to represent what resists representation, develops the most groundbreaking theories of the democratic...
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1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present

Tim Pat Coogan · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group...
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Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic

Michael D. White · New York University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

No policing tactic has been more controversial than stop and frisk, whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis...
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi's Longest Civil War

Victoria E. Bynum · University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River,...
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The Mountain: A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Bernard Debarbieux · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes....
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We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41

Robert Forczyk · Osprey Publishing (UK)
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In May, 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain--and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines,...
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Warren County

Warren County Historical Society · Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

Warren Countys townships, nestled in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, were originally formed from the land grants awarded by William Penn and his descendants to many individuals and families. Warren County was established March 12, 1800, and grew in prosperity from agriculture, lumber,...
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Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City

Joseph E B Elliott · Temple University Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Philadelphia possesses an exceptionally large number of places that have almost disappeared - from workshops and factories to sporting clubs and societies, synagogues, churches, theaters, and railroad lines. In Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, urban observers Nathaniel Popkin and Peter...
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The Handy Diabetes Answer Book

Patricia L Barnes-Svarney · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Whether young, old, type 1, type 2, gestational, newly-diagnosed, long-time sufferer, caretaker or loved one, millions of people are afflicted and affected by diabetes. The CDC estimates 9.3% of the population in the U.S. and Canada have diabetes, with millions more with prediabetes. From...
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