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New Titles - History
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Radley Balko · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended,... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900
Simon Schama · Ecco
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth centurySimon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish... |
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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 todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past
Paul G Bahn · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux... |
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