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Connecticut: Mapping the Nutmeg State through History
Diana Ross McCain · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 128 Format: Paperback
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Discover the history of Connecticut through rare historical full-color maps. Combining fifty rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Nutmeg State from the Library of Congress collections, as well as a foreword by Vincent Virga, informative captions and essays on state history, this book... |
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine's Baxter State Park
Randi Minetor · Down East Books
Pages: 216 Format: Paperback
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Mount Katahdin, in Baxter State Park, is Maine's highest mountain. It is also the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Tucked away in the remote North Woods, it is an adventure seeker's paradise. Hiking, climbing, backpacking, snowshoeing, back-country skiing, and ice-climbing... |
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 608 Format: Hardcover
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Croatia
DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 272 Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooks
Discover Croatia with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - walk the marble streets of Dubrovnik,... |
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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National Geographic Fellow and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the brave new world of "space archaeology," a growing field of exploration that has brought humanity to a tipping point of mass discovery in the ancient world
Dr. Sarah Parcak pioneers the young... |
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Moon Florida Keys
Laura Martone · Avalon Travel Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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World traveler Laura Martone shares the best ways to experience the Florida Keys, from diving the fascinating underwater coral reefs and shipwrecks of Key Largo to hiking and camping in the less touristy Middle Keys. Martone offers unique trip ideas for a variety of travelers, including... |
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2017 Edition
Princeton Review. · Princeton Review
Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5 ON THE NEW 2017 EXAM!Equip yourself to ace the NEW AP World History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect portal... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history. Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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SS United States: Red, White, and Blue Riband, Forever
John Maxtone-Graham · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Maxtone-Graham has yet again produced a profusely illustrated tribute, this one to America's most famous and historic liner. Arguably the world’s most articulate and authoritative maritime historian, John Maxtone-Graham documents SS United States, her design, construction, and seventeen... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
ANNE APPLEBAUM · Doubleday
Pages: 461 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization... |
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Women: Our Story
DK · DK
Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Reexamining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the pivotal but less well-known roles women have played in culture and society.
Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history--from early matriarchal... |
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The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
Isobel Charman · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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Set in the heart of swirling, Dickensian London, the wondrous history of a unique institution and the incredible characters -- human and animal -- that populated it. The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping audacity in the Age of Empire. It is the story of diplomats,... |
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Reference Shelf: 2016
H.W. Wilson Company · Grey House Publishing
Pages: 198 Format: Print book
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Many Americans would like to believe that because the United States has now twice elected a black president, we live in a "postracial" society where discrimination and racism do not exist or only do among outlying, insignificant extremists. Yet, there has been much in the news... |
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