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Gathering at Silver Glen: Community and History in Late Archaic Florida
Zackary I. Gilmore - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover
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"A theoretically robust and engaging work." - Donald H. Holly Jr., author of History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic "An intellectual tour de force that provides a significant contribution to the literature on hunter-gatherer archaeology." - David... |
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Mark Essig - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend - yet their flesh is banned... |
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Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans
Janelle Hill - Government Institutes
Format: Print book
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Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory and can be an extremely uncomfortable process. However, there are resources in place that can relieve much of the stress of the challenging... |
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Cross-Channel attack
Gordon A Harrison - Center of Military History
Format: Book : English : World War II, 50th anniversary commemorative edView all editions and formats
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"Deals with the planning and difficulties encountered incident to the mounting of the largest amphibious assault ever undertaken in military history. Much of the information it contains has not heretofore been a matter of public knowledge" -- from foreward. |
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The Miracle of Dunkirk
Walter Lord - Viking Press
Format: Hardcover
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On May 24, 1940, Hitler s armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only ten miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just eleven days later, by June 4, 338,000 men had been successfully evacuated to England. How did it happen? Walter... |
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Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Gerald Steinacher - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized... |
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: The Illustrated Edition
Frederick Douglass - Zenith Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The illustrated version of America's most famous autobiography.Famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, an 1845 memoir and treatise on the abolition of slavery. In describing the facts of his life in clear and consise prose, he fueled... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election,... |
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You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know: Living with It in Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch - Penguin Press HC, The
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594204241
ISBN-13: 978-1594204241
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In this book the author explores a society in which killers and survivors live again as neighbors; it introducers readers to a post-genocide Rwanda. The book plunges into the lives of a vast cast of characters: from perpetrators and victims in tiny peasant communities to street kids, businessmen,... |
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
James Oakes - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war. Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy... |
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Western civilizationrsquos rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries All over the world more and more people study at Western-style universities work for Western-style companies vote for Western-style governments take Western... |
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Last Men Out: The True Story of Americas Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Bob Drury - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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A "thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss" (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the "gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975" (BOOKLIST ) . In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth... |
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NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
Richard C. Crepeau - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Football Association. At first is struggled in the shadow of baseball as a vaguely disreputable professional sport, and had trouble competing for athletes and fans. Through a series of mergers, moves between cities,... |
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History of Britain & Ireland
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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From the Roman conquest of 43 CE to the Norman conquest of 1066 and from the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, DKs History of Britain and Ireland traces the key events that shaped the societies living in the British Isles from the earliest times... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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Listen, Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters
Tom Hayden - Seven Stories Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states - from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.Listen, Yankee! offers an account... |
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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
Les Standiford - Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. His abduction and murderunsolved for more than a quarter of a centuryforever changed America. Shocked by Adams murder and the inability of the police and FBI to find... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the Shadow of Iwo Jima
Mitch Weiss - Berkley Pub Group, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II - and one of the bloodiest in United States history - began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now... On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among... |
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
Gordon C Rhea - LSU Press
Format: Hardcover
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With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously covered the campaign in his magisterial... |
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The Savage City. Race, Murder, and A Generation On The Edge
T. J. English - WilliamMr; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Product Description In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963... |
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Washington Information Directory 2014-2015
Laura Notten - CQ Press
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on United States governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations. This thoroughly researched guide provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly... |
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Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad
Bruce O. Riedel - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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Bicentennial: Poems
Dan Chiasson - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed poet - a refreshing, singular collection of poems about boys and boyhood, historical cycles and personal history, memory and meaning. Bicentennial summons the world of Chiasson's seventies childhood in Vermont: early VCRs, snow, erections, pizza, snowmobiles,... |
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Elizabeth Goodman - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In the second half of the twentieth century, New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York from... |
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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Howard Blum - Crown; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen are now victims of their own success. They are heroes whove outlived... |
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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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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Russell Edwards - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have emerged since 1888. This evidence is from one of the crime scenes, and has now been rigorously... |
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Civil War, The: The Story of the War with Maps
M. David Detweiler - Stackpole Books
Format: Book
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For readers addicted to histories or novels about the Civil War, a common challenge is the lack of adequate maps. This excellent volume satisfies that need, once and for all Its the clearest, fullest collection of strategic and tactical maps available, a fine volume on its own and an indispensable... |
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
Anatol Lieven - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
Stephen L. Moore - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific....But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron... |
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Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world warsDuring the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film... |
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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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Interacting with History: Teaching with Primary Sources
Katharine Lehman - Alpha Pub House
Format: Print book
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With nearly 142 million items and one of the largest bodies of high-quality, digitized content available, the Library of Congress (LOC) is an enormously useful resource for librarians and teachers. Yet it remains a mystery to many. Exploring the wealth of materials freely available for free... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times best-selling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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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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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Jonathan Fenby - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes... |
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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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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria
RANIA ABOUZEID - W. W. Norton & Company
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Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos... |
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Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror
Marty Skovlund Jr. - Blackside Concepts
Format: Hardcover
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Violence of Action is much more than the true, first-person accounts of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Global War on Terror. Between these pages are the heartfelt, first-hand accounts from, and about, the men who lived, fought, and died for their country, their Regiment, and each other.... |
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Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
Ben Kiernan - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited... |
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A History of Modern Tunisia
Kenneth J Perkins - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Kenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia, updated with a new chapter, carries the history of this country from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian revolution of 2011 - the first critical event of that year's Arab Spring and the inspiration... |
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
John Naughton - Quercus
Format: Hardcover
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John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities... |
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Beyond the Sunshine: A Timeline of Florida's Past
Rick Baker - Pineapple Press Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against the backdrop of world events. Learn how early native peoples, European exploration, wars,... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman - W.W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
Joseph Wheelan - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned.In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns... |
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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 Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
Paul Strathern - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against... |
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Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper
LINDA SIMON - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the glorious, boozy party that followed World War I, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as Linda Simon... |
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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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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863
Jeffry D. Wert - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative... |
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The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, 660-1649
Nicholas A M Rodger - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire,... |
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists - quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans - that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created... |
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
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History of the World in 1000 objects
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultures and early civilizations through the objects that they created. Humanity is defined by our talent for making things from everyday objects... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Latin America's Wars Volume I: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899
Robert L Scheina - Potomac Books Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Robert Scheina's latest book, drawn upon years of research, lecturing, and teaching in the field, is a groundbreaking and definitive study of Latin American military history. Despite the pivotal role of wars in U.S. history, few in the United States understand their effect elsewhere... |
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,... |
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Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941
Daniel Todman - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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On June 18th, 1940, invoking their "finest hour," Winston Churchill galvanized his countrymen. Poland and France had fallen. Britain was next. Churchill knew, as now did millions of his countrymen, that their island nation alone faced Nazi Germany, and that soon it would be at the center... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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The History of Human Space Flight
TED SPITZMILLER - UNIV PR OF FLORIDA
Format: Print book
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"A fascinating human saga of dedication, competition, sacrifice, and achievement." - Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory "An ambitious and thorough history, extending back to the earliest risk takers and innovators who laid the groundwork for the astronauts... |
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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Diane Coyle - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013--or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008--just as the world's financial system went into meltdown?... |
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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
MICHAEL K JONES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages -- and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the fourteen century.As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crcy.... |
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Japan Traveler's Companion: Japan's Most Famous Sights From Hokkaido to Okinawa
ROB GOSS - TUTTLE PUBLISHING
Format: Print book
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Richly illustrated with hundreds of color photos, Japan Traveler's Companion delves beyond the gaze of traditional guidebooks to uncover the country's rich culinary traditions, pop culture, Samurai heritage, and much more - bringing Japan to life and highlighting the most interesting... |
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A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families and Friends
Dennis Smith - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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On the tenth anniversary of a portrait of tragedy survival and healing from the author of The New York Times bestseller Report from Ground Zero This year marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon an occasion that is sure to be observed around... |
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U.S. Army Campaigns of the War of 1812: The Canadian Theater 1814
Richard V Barbuto - Dept. of the Army; None, First edition
Format: Print book
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After eighteen months of fighting, the United States was no closer to achieving its war aims than when Congress declared war in June 1812. With Napoleon defeated, the British turned their well experienced soldiers and large and highly effective naval forces toward North America. ... |
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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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Shade in the Sunshine State: Reflections on Segregation in Florida
Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen - First Person Publications
Format: Print book
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What was it like? What was it like to live in a segregated "Sunshine State"? Read about Florida's history of segregation as told by people who lived through it. Read about Rosenwald Schools, wade-ins, sit-ins, and the integration of Gainesville High. Join Sarasota author... |
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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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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Robert L Gandt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate... |
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International History of the Vietnam War: Revolution Versus Containment 1955-61
Ralph B Smith - St. Martin's Pr.
Format: Book
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Most previous books on the Vietnam War have seen it primarily as an American military involvement in the affairs of a small Asian country halfway across the world. The present study, planned to run to four volumes, seeks to reassess the significance of the conflict by looking at Vietnam... |
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I Never Thought I'd See the Day!: Culture at the Crossroads
David Jeremiah - FaithWords; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Is Western civilization in an accelerating decline? And if it continues will it eventually weaken and cause us to come to the end of cultured civilization as we now know it? Yes, says David Jeremiah, and in his book, I NEVER THOUGHT ID SEE THE DAY! he details numerous signs of this cultural... |
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Then Came The Fire: Personal Accounts From the Pentagon, 11 September 2001
Center of Military History - Dept. of the Army
Format: Paperback
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The accounts presented in this anthology are excerpts from the interviews and written recollections gathered by the Center of Military History. Due to considerations of space, only some of the accounts at the Center could be included. This volume, therefore, does not offer every... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Annette Gordon-Reed - Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
DIANE ACKERMAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.In 1939 Poland, Antonina abiski (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan abiski (Johan Heldenbergh) , have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under... |
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World
Derek Chollet - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama's foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from the political reality in which leaders face choices and make decisions. Here, consummate... |
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came... |
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems.Instant New York Times Bestseller"One of the year's most entrancing books about science." - The Wall Street Journal"Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics."... |
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The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
Alison Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT * From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England... |
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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff - Alfred A. Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On November the last British troops pulled out of New York City bringing the American Revolution to an end Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of US independence But for tens of thousands of American loyalists the British evacuation spelled worry not jubilation What... |
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Eddie S Jr Glaude - Crown
Format: Book
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A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling... |
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Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Joan Waugh - Modern Library; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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On Bowie
Rob Sheffield - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January... |
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