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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A Compendium of Terms and Topics
Paul A Chase - Outskirts Press
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Many books of the American Revolution frequently only contain weak explanations of important topics and terms. This book can be used as a teaching aide or reference dictionary for the hundreds of topics and terms of the Revolutionary War. From hundreds of books Mr. Chase has put together... |
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Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir
Sally Quinn - Harper One
Format: Print book
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The author, journalist, television reporter, and longtime Washington insider reflects on the spiritual quest that has brought deeper meaning to her life - and kept her grounded within the high-powered political world of Washington, D.C.'s elite - her renowned writing career, her celebrity... |
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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's... |
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The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
DAVID L MEARNS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This gripping memoir by the world's foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science, and Clive Cussler-style adventure. David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood... |
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West Point History of the Revolutionary War
Clifford J Rogers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive concise military history of the Revolutionary War and the fourth volume in the West Point History of Warfare series is packed with essential images, exclusive tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach... |
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American epic : when music gave america her voice.
Elijah Wald - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.Jack... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
Kari Herbert - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks,... |
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and behind charismatic... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is "an... |
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Medieval Europe
Chris Wickham - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled... |
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The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before... |
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Haider Warraich - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping
Lucy Maddox - Temple University Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could... |
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The Hellenistic Age
Peter Thonemann - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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Mountain Folk: More Oral Histories of the Appalachian People
Lynn Coffey - Lynn Coffey
Format: Paperback
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Mountain Folk is the fifth and final book in the Backroads series by Lynn Coffey that showcases the lives and customs of the native Appalachian people of Virginia's highlands. Interviews with seventeen people still living in and around the hamlet of Love where the author makes her home,... |
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Such Mad Fun: Ambition and Glamour in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robin R Cutler - View Tree Press
Format: Print book
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AVAILABLE IN ALL FORMATS SEPT 8, 2016 What determines who a woman will become? Jane Hall was an orphan at fifteen and a "literary prodigy" according to the press. How did this spirited young girl from an Arizona mining town become a Depression-era debutante, a successful author... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era
Glenn F Williams - Westholme Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Known to history as "Dunmore's War," the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty's service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore... |
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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Bob Brier - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Print book
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 - one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart... |
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A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
John Baxter - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A Paperback OriginalFrom the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall,... |
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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 2
United States Military Academy. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The definitive, must-have military history of World War II - spanning 1942 until the end of the war - packed with the same expert analysis, exclusive tactical maps, unique graphics, and historical images used by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach the art of war to its own cadets.Since... |
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The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
Ian Davidson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson. The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom,... |
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Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
Stephen Anthony Smith - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson... |
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The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Thomas Neil Gareth Morris - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century,... |
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Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution
Tony Brenton - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Communism's rise and eventual fall in Eastern Europe is one of the great stories of the 20th century. Within this context, the Russian Revolution's role and legacy overshadows all else. In Was Revolution Inevitable?, former British Ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton has gathered... |
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The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
Nate Parker - 37 Ink
Format: Print book
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This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.Based... |
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John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848
John Quincy Adams - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
Charles B Dew - University of Virginia Press
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates... |
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Peter Ross Range - Little
Format: Print book
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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monsterBefore Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
Marianne Monson - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
GEOFFREY WAWRO - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic.... |
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
THERESE ONEILL - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling, "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating" (Jenny Lawson) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
Uri Bar-Joseph - Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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A gripping feat of reportage that exposes - for the first time in English - the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East.As the son-in-law of Egyptian... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insiders view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city... |
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The Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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Jamestown, the Truth Revealed
William M Kelso - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious... |
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant portrait of the "original affluent society"--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then... |
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The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program
BRANDON WEBB - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book
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As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Webb was tapped to revamp the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper School, incorporating the latest advances in technology and ballistics software to create an entirely new course that continues to test the skills and even the best warriors.... |
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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Ingrid Rowland - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the visual world.Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents -- a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar -- but he is best known for Lives of the Artists,... |
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John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American... |
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
Jack Lynch - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line... |
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Abigail Adams: Letters: Library of America #275
Abigail Adams - Library Of America, 2016.
Format: Print book
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For the first time, a comprehensive one-volume collection of the remarkable letters of the politically astute First Lady who has been called "an American Tocqueville." From virtually the moment she married the ambitious young lawyer John Adams in 1764, Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818)... |
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Kinshasha Conwill - Smithsonian Books
Format: Print book
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Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present... |
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Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France
Benjamin F Jones - Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
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The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance... |
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Carol S Steiker - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
John Romer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades... |
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"A modern feminist classic." -- The GuardianFrom the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
Roland Philipps - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first full biography of one of the twentieth century's most notorious spies.Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man's betrayal has never... |
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History
Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece... |
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Nikki Marie Taylor - Ohio University Press
Format: Print book
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The story of Margaret Garner - the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery - has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner's... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into... |
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The Historical Archaeology of Virginia From Initial Settlement to the Present: O
Clarence R Geier - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Peter S. Carmichael - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers... |
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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
Robert Ferguson - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC) .Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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Virginia Barbecue: A History
Joseph R Haynes - American Palate
Format: Print book
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With more than four hundred years of history, Virginians lay claim to the invention of southern barbecue. Native Virginian Powhatan tribes slow roasted meat on wooden hurdles or grills. James Madison hosted grand barbecue parties during the colonial and federal eras. The unique combination... |
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Victoria E. Bynum - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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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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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Charlie English - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to "discover" one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend."A... |
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Heroines of Mercy Street
Pamela D. Toler PhD - Little, Brown, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy StreetHEROINES OF MERCY STREET tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among... |
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
Joy Mangano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From visionary entrepreneur and inventor, Joy Mangano, comes a powerful and inspirational blueprint for living with more success, confidence, and happiness in work and life.A true American original, Joy Mangano carved her own path to fame and fortune with courage, creativity, and sheer... |
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1916: A Global History
Keith Jeffery - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's... |
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
John Hylan Heminway - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out -- with military precision -- an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly... |
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Laura Spinney - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.The Spanish flu of 1918-1920... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Penguin Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself
Kenneth L Feder - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Presenting "the real deal" of American antiquity - as opposed to the hyped fare of many cable TV shows - Kenneth Feder invites readers to explore the stunning technological, architectural, engineering, and artistic achievements of America's first peoples. Part travel guide, part... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British... |
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Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James... |
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The First Signs: My Quest to Unlock the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
Genevieve Von Petzinger - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-- the first indications of symbolic meaning,... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies... |
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