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Navy SEAL Sniper: An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century

Brandon Webb · Skyhorse Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Navy SEAL Sniper is a revised, updated, and full-color edition of The 21st-Century Sniper.The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none. Mastering the art of marksmanship is critical but is only part of what makes a Navy SEAL sniper. The modern sniper follows in the long line of warriors...
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History for genealogists : using chronological time lines to find and understand your ancestors

Judy Jacobson · Clearfield
Pages: 296
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.
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Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

David Roediger · Verso
Format: Hardcover

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roedigers radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts...
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Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire

Terry Deary · Phoenix; Reprint edition

The author of childrens series Horrible Histories presents the first book in his new offbeat popular history series for adults—Bill Bryson meets Blackadder With his trademark crisp, wry writing style and dark sense of humor, Terry Deary begins with the Roman Empire, in the first...
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Rick Perlstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until...
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Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s

Michael Stewart Foley · Hill and Wang
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

“Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice.”—Ralph NaderAn on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personalThe 1960s are widely...
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Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China

Roach. · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

The Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship initially arose out of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable codependence, with the two largest economies in the world losing...
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Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore

Jay Sekulow · Howard Books; annotated edition edition

THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of Americas most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.Recently,...
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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

Neil Swidey · Crown Publishers
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job - with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations,...
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Cherokee by Blood, Volume 1, Applications 1-1550

Jerry Wright Jordan · Heritage Books; First Edition

This series presents detailed abstracts of those applications including numerous verbatim transcriptions of affidavits by the applicants, their families and friends. Since most of the applications were descendants, and had to prove their descent, the quan
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