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Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Claude A. Piantadosi - Columbia University Press; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock - Counterpoint Format: Hardcover
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Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
Isobel Charman - Pegasus Books 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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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Book
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Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time. In this... |
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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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The Month that Changed the World: July 1914
Gordon Martel - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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On June 28, 1914, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state responsible, or alternatively attempting... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse
Tom Downey - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of one of America’s most elite firehouses and the extraordinary brotherhood of men who face extreme danger every dayFirefighting is a world of absolutes: evil is a red devil that wants destruction and death, good is a charged hose line, full of water to fight the flames.... |
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State Rankings 2014; A Statistical View of America
Kathleen O'Leary Morgan - CQ Press Format: Print book
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Published annually, State Rankings features comprehensive state statistics making it easy to compare states across key measures in education, health, crime, transportation, taxes, government finance, and so much more. The editors compile useful statistics that would otherwise take an enormous... |
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein - Nation Books Format: Paperback
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Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with... |
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings... |
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Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania
Thomas White - The History Press Format: Print book
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Oppaymolleahs curse. General Braddocks buried gold. The Original Man of Steel, Joe Magarac. Such legends have found a home among the rich folklore of Western Pennsylvania. Thomas White spins a beguiling yarn with tales that reach from the misty hollows of the Alleghenies to the lost islands... |
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The Secret Place
Tana French - VIKING Format: Hardcover
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An absolutely mesmerizing read Tana French is simply this a truly great writer Gillian Flynn Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French the most interesting most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years The Washington Post and don t miss her newest The Trespasser now available... |
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
D C B Lieven - Viking Format: Print book
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"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing." - Foreign AffairsOne of the world's... |
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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
Dianne Hales - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all timeMona Lisa. A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors... |
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Geronimo: The True Story of America's Most Ferocious Warrior
Geronimo - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Paperback
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First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author S. M. Barrett. The latter was given special permission from President Theodore Roosevelt to interview Geronimo while he was a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
James D. Hornfischer - Bantam; First edition Format: Hardcover
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts James D Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about Americarsquos World War II Navy works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information Now he does... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas - Random House Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero... |
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
Jack Cheevers - NAL; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATUREIn 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Pennsylvania Impressionism
Brian H. Peterson - University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Hardcover
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American Impressionism was a movement deeply rooted in the American soil. Artists often spurned the cities, living and working in the numerous art colonies that sprang up throughout the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of the best known of these colonies... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter - Simon & Schuster, 2016. Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel... |
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Magill's Literary Annual 2015: 2 Volume Set - Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
Salem Press - Salem Press; Har/Psc edition Format: Hardcover
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Each year, Magills Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. the philosophy behind our selection process is to cover works that are likely to be of interest to general readers, that are written by authors being... |
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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Sherill Tippins - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famousand infamousdecades The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing... |
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The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963
William Manchester - Back Bay Books; Reprint edition Format: Book
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William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination -- now restored to print in a new paperback edition.As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy... |
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A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
Zach Vertin - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable chronicle of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round -- a triumph for global justice and the end of one of the world's most devastating wars. The Republic's... |
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Magill's Literary Annual 2015: 2 Volume Set - Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
Salem Press - Salem Press; Har/Psc edition Format: Hardcover
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Each year, Magills Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. the philosophy behind our selection process is to cover works that are likely to be of interest to general readers, that are written by authors being... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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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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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel - Viking Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper Format: Paperback
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations... |
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Christopher Knowlton - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
James Traub - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group Format: Print book
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise, yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern... |
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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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First Pennsylvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania
Kurt W Carr - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 2015. 2015 Format: Print book
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In First Pennsylvanians, Kurt Carr and Roger Moeller provide a broad, accessible, and wide-ranging overview of the archaeological record of Native Americans in Pennsylvania from early prehistory through the Paleoindian, Archaic, Transitional, Woodland, and Contact periods, stretching from... |
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform
Robert E. Mutch - Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday Format: Paperback
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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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Scalia: A Court of One
Bruce Allen Murphy - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative, deeply researched biography of the most controversial and outspoken Supreme Court justice of our time and how he chose to be "right" rather than influential.Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal... |
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Fiona Ritchie - The University of North Carolina Press Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought... |
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Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War
Steven M. Gillon - Basic Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct the events of that daywhen the Japanese bombed Pearl Harborended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDRs presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl... |
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The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
John W. Dean - Viking Format: Hardcover
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Based on Nixon's overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we've come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA's... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS - Thames & Hudson Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
David F Labaree - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Read the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's... |
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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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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
Starr Smith - Zenith Press Format: Hardcover
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Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco... |
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The Autobiography Of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt - Da Capo Press Format: Paperback
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The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a distant relative and Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he gradually ascended throughout the world... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
John Kelly - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great MortalityDeeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling... |
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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
Dianne Hales - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story: Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all time - Mona Lisa.A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than nine million visitors... |
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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"Masterly." - Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind... |
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Pennsylvania Historic Places
Ruth Hoover Seitz - Good Books Format: Hardcover
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Pennsylvania is often overlooked as a tourist destination; consequently, few good general guides to the state are currently available. Here is a guide to mostly state-owned historical properties, e.g., the Daniel Boone Homestead. Several national parks such as Gettysburg and Valley Forge... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae - The Overlook Press Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER - Betty Crocker Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cookBetty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with... |
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Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II
Bruce Henderson - William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers,... |
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Rescue at Los Banos : the most daring prison camp raid of World War II
Bruce Henderson - William Morrow Format: Print book
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The true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Ban'os... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time... |
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Anything for a Vote
Joseph Cummins - Quirk Books; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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A History of Mud-Slinging, Character Assassination, And Other Election Strategies Today’s political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote... |
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that... |
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
Rob Dunn - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heartThe Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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The Portuguese: A Modern History
Barry Hatton - Interlink Pub Group; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Combining history and anecdote, Barry Hatton paints an intimate portrait of a fascinating country and its people Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founding member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner Format: Print book
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response... |
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This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
David Sloan Wilson - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can apply evolutionary theory to our social and cultural institutions.Darwin's theory of evolution provides a single theoretical framework for biology, and all life... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, as You've Never Seen Him
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck puts his unique spin on the life and legacy of Founding Father George Washington. IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, THINK AGAIN. This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape... |
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Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America
Christine Pawley - University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other... |
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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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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
William Geroux - Viking Format: Print book
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"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine... |
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The Third War
Jay Solomon - Random House Format: Print book
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For readers of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower comes a riveting, deeply reported exploration of the decades-long power struggle between Iran and the United States that led to a historic - and potentially disastrous - nuclear deal. For more... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
Michael McGirr - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A profound exploration of the precious resource of sleep -- and of the causes and consequences of getting too little of it. Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping. The arrival of baby twins, however, made him realize that he'd never before known true exhaustion. And while he celebrated... |
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard - Viking Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks... |
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Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic: A Guide for All Ages
Charles W. Mitchell - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Book
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Few regions of the United States boast as many historically significant sites as the mid-Atlantic. Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic brings to life sixteen easily accessible historical destinations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., the Potomac Valley, and Virginia.... |
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Beyond: Our Future in Space
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space -- and then reminds us that we're already there.Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle... |
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1001 Inventions That Changed the World
Jack Challoner - Barron's Format: Print book
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We take thousands of inventions for granted, using them daily and enjoying their benefits. But how much do we really know about their origins and development? This absorbing new book tells the stories behind the inventions that have changed the world, with details about-- Convenience... |
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