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Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese - Basic Books; 3rd pr edition
Format: Hardcover
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Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of the Communist Manifesto, and helped... |
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
Estelle B. Freedman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that it remains a word in flux. Redefining Rape tells the story of the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the United States,... |
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Songs Only You Know: A Memoir
Sean Madigan Hoen - Soho,
Format: Print book
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Eighteen-year-old Sean Madigan Hoen was struggling to keep his involvement in the city's hardcore punk scene a secret from his family. Then he learned that his father, too, had a second life - as a crack addict. Songs Only You Know begins in the '90s and spans a decade during... |
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Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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This is the definitive biography of Britain©'s greatest monarch, who ©"was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.©" ©"One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time©"... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
T. D. Allman - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Over the centuries, Florida has been many things an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, gods waiting room, and a place to start over. Depopulated... |
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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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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse - Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."... |
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The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred Kaplan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David... |
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Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation
Robert Wilson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In the s and s Brady of Broadway was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries Henry Clay Daniel Webster Dolley Madison Henry James as a boy with his father Horace Greeley Edgar Allan Poe the Prince of Wales and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed... |
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
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American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
Jerome A Greene - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover
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As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed instead to join "hostile"... |
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting historymdashthe first full accountmdashof the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan shaped the fate of Asia and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world todayGiving... |
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Churchill and the Dardanelles
Christopher M Bell - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1915, Winston Churchill's political career was nearly destroyed when the Allied fleet failed to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial naval campaign.... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison
Michael Daly - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted, and over the past century, this bizarre, ghoulish execution has reverberated through popular culture with the whiff of urban legend. But it really happened, and many historical forces conspired to bring Topsy, Thomas Edison,... |
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Modern China: All That Matters
Jonathan Clements - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating and provocative look at modern China Author Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see their country. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform.... |
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Raising Children in the Military
Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death... |
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The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812
George C. Daughan - Basic Books; First American Edition edition
Format: Book
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A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American... |
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Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps
Li︠u︡bovʹ Vinogradova - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in 1942, with the Eastern Front having claimed the lives of several million Soviet soldiers, Stalin's Red Army began drafting tens of thousands of women, most of them in their teens or early twenties, to defend against the Nazi invasion. Some volunteered, but most were given... |
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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Todd Miller - City Lights Books
Format: Paperback
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"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . . Miller's book arrives at a moment... |
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Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General
Rick Stroud - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit... |
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Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Steve Vogel - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem. In the summer... |
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The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case
Pat Brown - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a failed monarch. Various ancient sources state that she desperately ended her life with the bite... |
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The Romans: All That Matters
John Manley - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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Take a fascinating and provocative look at the Romans and their empire How did a rather obscure settlement spread over a few hills on the banks of the Tiber come to dominate the lives of 65 million people? What drove this relentless desire to conquer? How did Rome manage to maintain direct... |
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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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Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival... |
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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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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War -- a conflict... |
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now:
Various - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which... |
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Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military
Tanya Biank - NAL; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in todays militarythe professional and personal challenges that confront female soldiers from the combat zone to the home front... Since 911, more than 240,000 women soldiers... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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The Borgias: The Hidden History
G.J. Meyer - Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers... |
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
Anthony Pagden - Random House
Format: Print book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression.... |
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Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
Jacques Soustelle - Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The subject of this book is the life of the Mexicans -- the Mexica, as they said themselves -- at the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time, in the early 1500s, nobody, from the arid steppes of the north to the burning jungles of the isthmus, from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico... |
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Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity
Michael Scott - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world."Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and RubiconTwenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation... |
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The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero
James S Robbins - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated... |
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Year Zero: A History of 1945
Ian Buruma - Penguin Press HC, The; First edition
Format: Print book
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A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change... |
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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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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Aron - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the... |
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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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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.
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Coyote America
Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
Nancy Koester - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch (Center Point Large Print)
Joseph Madison Beck - Center Point
Format: Large Print
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"A memoir about the authors father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird"-- |
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The Wild West in Color: A Photographic Account of our Nation's Westward Expansion
John C Guntzelman - Voyageur Press
Format: Print book
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Re-explore the Wild West, where America's legends and myths were made, for the first time with fully-colorized images by bestselling author and cinematographer, John Guntzelman. The lure of the Wild West has been a driving force in the American experience. Originally the stuff of dreams,... |
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American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
Mark Stein - Palgrave MacMillan
Format: Hardcover
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In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless... |
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Celtic Myths and Legends Series
T W Rolleston - Bracken Books
Format: Hardcover
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Celtic origins, heroes, and stories spring to life in T. W. Rolleston's classic work, Celtic Myths and Legends. Spanning thousands of years and across thousands of miles, these myths and legends offer a glimpse into worlds long gone that continue to influence modern culture. |
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
Vivien Spitz - Sentient Publications
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors... |
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The Vikings
Ren Chartrand - Osprey Publishing
Format: Print book
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The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors continue to capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard, and landing on the shores of America 500 years before... |
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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
Steven Beller - Oxford University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism... |
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The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
Jeffrey L. Singman - Sterling; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience.... |
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Tibet: The Lost Civilization
Simon Normanton - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Uses photographs and first-hand accounts by Western visitors to describe the Tibetan culture and society prior to annexation by Communist China |
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Goshen County
Vickie Zimmer - Arcadia
Format: Paperback
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Either a French trapper named Goshe or the biblical Land of Goshen was responsible for the name given to Wyoming's southeast region. In 1911, the Wyoming Legislature approved a bill to create Goshen County, and it was signed by Gov. Joseph Carey. The county was extracted from Laramie... |
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Africa: A Modern History
Guy Arnold - Atlantic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The end of World War II signaled the end of the European African empires. In 1945, four African countries were independent; by 1963, 30 African states created the Organization of African Unity. The 1960s were a time of optimism as Africans enjoyed their new independence, witnessed increases... |
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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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You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War
Sid Phillips - Dutton Caliber
Format: Paperback
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Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, Alabama, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942... A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years... |
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel - Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery... |
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Fort Laramie
Starley Talbott - Arcadia
Format: Paperback
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Fort Laramie was one of the most important frontier outposts of the American West. Founded as the trading post Fort William in 1834, the fort became a U.S. military post in 1849. Beginning in 1841, emigrants stopped at Fort Laramie while traveling the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.... |
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Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer
Hellmut G. Haasis - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Georg Elser was just an ordinary working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself, without telling his family or friends, to single-handedly attempt to assassinate... |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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The Vikings
Neil Oliver - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history. The Vikings famously took no prisoners,... |
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
Thomas Penn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heapa fugitive with a flimsy claim to Englands throne. For many he remained... |
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The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two
Piers Paul Read - Bloomsbury Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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July The German military attachxE in Paris receives a visit from a seedy-looking man who claims to be a French army officer in desperate need of money offering to sell them military secretsCaptain Alfred Dreyfus was a rising star in the French artillery command Reserved yet intelligent... |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s
J Harvie Wilkinson, III - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade's imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to the true meaning of education,... |
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Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army
John P Langellier - Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Format: Print book
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From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi... |
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Douglas
Linda Graves Fabian - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Book
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The town of Douglas is located in east-central Wyoming in a gentle valley, with the mountains of Medicine Bow National Forest on one side and the beautiful Wyoming plains on the other. Established in 1887 by the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad, the town was named by representatives... |
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California: A History
Kevin Starr - The Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State's premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California's history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold,... |
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U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency
Mike Earp - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earpa descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earpoffers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nations development for more than... |
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Wyoming's Historic Ranches
Nancy Weidel - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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Wyoming is so closely identified with ranching that it is often known as the Cowboy State. The prosperity associated with the cattle industry drew wealthy investors to Wyoming Territory in the 1870s and early 1880s. They stocked the range with thousands of cows and made considerable fortunes... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 19711972
Douglas Brinkley - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud... |
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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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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money... |
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Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849
Margaret Casterline Bowen - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover
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When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some... |
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Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Douglas H MacDonald - University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback
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Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American... |
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What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life
Marc Leepson - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Book
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What So Proudly We Hailed is the first full-length biography of Francis Scott Key in more than 75 years. In this fascinating look at early America, historian Marc Leepson explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key. Standing alongside Betsy Ross, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Paul... |
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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy
Ernie LaPointe - Gibbs Smith; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Ernie LaPointe is the great -grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, and he presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Sitting Bull. LaPointe... |
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Nick Bunker - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic... |
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
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Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising
Alexandra Richie - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimesIn 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan... |
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Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra... |
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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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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee... |
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and Heroes
Carolyne Larrington - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating introduction to the vivid, violent, boisterous world of the Norse myths and their cultural legacy -- from Tolkien to Game of ThronesThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological... |
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
Lawrence James - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship... |
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Charles Emmerson - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit
Peter Hecht - University of California Press,
Format: Paperback
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Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine,... |
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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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A History of Modern Indonesia
Adrian Vickers - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers's book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island... |
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Antarctica
David Day - Oxford University Press
Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus... |
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That's That: A Memoir
Colin Broderick - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from? Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In That’s... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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Ghost Towns of Wyoming
Bruce A Raisch - Donning Co.
Format: Paperback
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Ghost Towns of Wyoming, the first in a series of ten ghost town books, is a stunning volume featuring a historical and physical biography of 74 sites, with their history dating back to 1812. While many of these towns are a vanishing breed from a bygone era, a sense of history hangs in the air of their... |
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Haunted hotels of northern Colorado
Nancy K Williams - Haunted America
Format: Print book
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The haunted hotels of northern Colorado offer chance encounters with wispy apparitions from a fabulous century gone by. The Earl of Dunraven prowls in the night at the Stanley Hotel. Melancholy Carl haunts the halls of the Brook Forest Inn, and Eleanor James tosses pots and pans about at the Elkhorn... |
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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Kenneth G Langone - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades,... |
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire: From A Superpower to a Fragile Nation
Michael Klein - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The sudden Rise and Fall of Great Britain should not have come as a surprise to those few persons who study the increase and fall of Empires, and they are acquainted with the lands which, in every single case, have caused their dissolution. No writer who controls a heart can, however, afford... |
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Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias
John Dickie - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta,... |
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Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
Mark Lee Greenblatt - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book
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Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops... |
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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
Rorke Denver - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy SEALs--the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield, ideal warriors for the kinds of wars America is fighting now. With his years of action-packed mission experience and a top training role, Lieutenant Commander Denver understands... |
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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 Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Ernest Freeberg - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edisons incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense... |
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Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Giles Milton - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that... |
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson - Twelve
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego.... |
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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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Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine
Sachi Parker - Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric actressShirley MacLaine is an Academy Award winning actress who has graced Hollywood with her talent for decades, known for her roles in The Apartment, Terms of Endearment,... |
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women... |
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Southeast Asia: Past and Present
D R SarDesai - Routledge
Format: Paperback
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Southeast Asia: Past and Present offers a balanced and readable account of the region from ancient to modern times, covering traditional history as well as current events. D. R. SarDesai avoids overemphasizing the importance of the period of European colonial rule as he introduces us to the regions... |
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII
ANTONY BEEVOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane... |
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Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Elena Favilli - Rebel Girls
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a childrens book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world.This must-have... |
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Richard Rubin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover... |
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore - Vintage
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR * Time Magazine * The Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * The Boston Globe A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians - a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's... |
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Timelines of Science
DK Publishing - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now available in paperback, Timelines of Science is an informative guide to the history of scientific discovery and technology. that follows the path chronologically, and explores everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics. Timelines of Science highlights the theories,... |
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed
Gavin Menzies - WilliamMr; 1st Printing edition
Format: Book
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Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.Glenn BeckThe secrets of historys most enduring mystery are finally revealed in The Lost Empire of Atlantis. Through impeccable research and intelligent speculation, Gavin Menzies, the New York Times bestselling author of 1421,... |
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