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The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
Bill Hayton - Yale University Press
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China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely.... |
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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
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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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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari
Format: electronic resource
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The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question—and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired... |
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The handheld library : mobile technology and the librarian
Thomas A Peters; Lori Bell - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback
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There currently are approximately seven billion people on earth, and approximately six billion active mobile phone subscriptions. Mobile devices have transformed how we communicate, seek and use information, create content, and are entertained. Nearly all types of social, cultural, commercial,... |
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Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation
Heather Augustyn - Scarecrow Press
Format: Hardcover
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Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. Without ska music, there would be no reggae or Bob Marley, no British... |
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Then Came The Fire: Personal Accounts From the Pentagon, 11 September 2001
Center of Military History - Dept. of the Army
Format: Paperback
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The accounts presented in this anthology are excerpts from the interviews and written recollections gathered by the Center of Military History. Due to considerations of space, only some of the accounts at the Center could be included. This volume, therefore, does not offer every... |
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Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi
Kenneth R. Timmerman - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened - and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually... |
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America" is an invention - and a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief... |
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Mark Essig - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend - yet their flesh is banned... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots
Linda Porter - St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, was fuelled by three generations... |
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Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Thomas Luebke - Us Commission of Fine Arts
Format: Hardcover
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From an incomplete composition of brick buildings and informal gardens into an ordered landscape of white classical temples, the image of Washington, D.C., was transformed by visionary planning and implementation in response to the political and artistic movements of the early twentieth... |
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Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
James W. Loewen - New Press, The; Revised Edition edition
Format: Book
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Some myths don’t die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he “discovered” the Americas (not only was the land familiar to native inhabitants, but it had also been visited before by Europeans), that the land was sparsely populated by native people... |
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The Statesmans Yearbook 2015: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
B. Turner - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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Now in its 151st edition, The Statesmans Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions:... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America's founding principles,... |
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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
Michael Pillsbury
Format: electronic resource
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One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role... |
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Historical Gazetteer of the United States
Paul T. Hellmann - Routledge
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The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States. |
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U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Improtant Locations, and More!
Kathleen Sears - Adams Media
Format: Hardcover
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The stories of politicos and historic events are often turned into snooze-worthy lectures that even Benjamin Franklin would reject. This guide cuts out all the boring details and instead provides you with a thrilling lesson in U.S. history.From Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence... |
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China Thousand Years Ago
anonymous - Henan Art Publishing House; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Language:Chinese.Pub Date: 2014-03-01 Pages: 264 Publisher: Henan Arts Press rich and prosperous Song. airtight internal implementation of the rule will be firmly in the hands of half of China; foreign has repeatedly compromise and concessions. despite the majority of the territory was alien... |
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Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the worlds workour workgets done. From Bartleby the Scrivener to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating,... |
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Rebels in the Rockies: Confederate Irregulars in the Western Territories
Walter Earl Pittman - McFarland
Format: Book
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The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
Paul L. Williams - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This disturbing expos describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of stay-behind... |
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A Revolutionary War Timeline
Elizabeth Raum - Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, $c
Format: Print book
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Who are the American colonists? Are they British subjects or independent citizens? A war will decide. Explore the events of the Revolutionary War and experience the fight for freedom. |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
James M. Scott - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated -- and controversial -- military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid.In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Andrew Schocket - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source... |
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Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Brooke Borel - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
John Naughton - Quercus
Format: Hardcover
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John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities... |
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Pop Culture Places
Gladys L. Knight - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture serves as a resource for high school and college students as well as adult readers that contains more than 350 entries on a broad assortment of popular places in America. Covering places from Ellis Island to Fisherman's... |
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Tim Butcher - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo... |
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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2015 James Beard Award Nominee: Writing and Literature category Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have... |
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height... |
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The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
Doug Rossinow - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the s Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagans presidency and the ideology of Reaganism Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy Reaganite conservatives in the s achieved impressive success in their... |
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times,... |
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
James Oakes - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war. Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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State and Metropolitan Area Data Book: 2013
Deirdre A. Gaquin - Bernan Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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This edition includes: a complete listing and data for all states, metropolitan areas, including micropolitan areas, and their component counties; 2010 census counts and more recent population estimates for all areas; results of the 2012 national and state elections; expanded vital statistics,... |
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Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It
John Ferling - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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History of the World in 1000 objects
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultures and early civilizations through the objects that they created. Humanity is defined by our talent for making things from everyday objects... |
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to e-book
Roderick Cave - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A study of books through history is a study of human history. In The History of the Book in 100 Books, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -- literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion,... |
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Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Martin J. S. Rudwick - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how was it discovered How was the evidence... |
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Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
Susan Butler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin ("History owes a debt to Susan... |
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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The Historical Atlas of World War II
Alexander Swanston - Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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World War II was the most devastating event in human history. The Historical Atlas of World War II presents the conflict through deeply-researched text and detailed maps that, taken together, add up to a unique and original appraisal of this global war.The Historical Atlas of World War II encompasses... |
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The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer
William Bostwick - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of 2014 U.S. Gourmand Drinks Award Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-traveling homebrewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past.The Brewer's Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer's quest... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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 termuntil televised... |
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim - Crown Pub
Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Nelson A Denis - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight... |
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The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House
Thomas F. Schaller - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to win convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the six. In the lone Republican victory, the party incumbent wonduring wartimeby... |
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