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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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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Amanda Foreman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER10 BEST BOOKS * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * 2011 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune * The Economist * Nancy Pearl, NPR * Bloomberg.com * Library Journal * Publishers... |
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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 Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Ronald Hutton - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically... |
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The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape
Suzannah Lessard - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings -- cities, countryside, and sprawl -- exploring change in the meaning of place, and reimagining our American landscape Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with... |
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Dlx Rep edition
Format: Paperback
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Its a wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The ImmigrantsIt should be required reading. Eric Foner, New York Times... |
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The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
Isobel Charman - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Set in the heart of swirling, Dickensian London, the wondrous history of a unique institution and the incredible characters -- human and animal -- that populated it. The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping audacity in the Age of Empire. It is the story of diplomats,... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Print book
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From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after warThe wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
Tristram Hunt - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
Ray Suarez - Celebra Trade
Format: Paperback
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THE COMPANION BOOK TO THE PBS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. This companion to the landmark PBS miniseries... |
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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Equal parts biographical puzzle, architectural meditation, and probing detective story, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem offers a prismatic view into one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities. Panoramic yet intimate, this portrait of three architects who helped... |
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When Reagan Sent In the Marines: The Invasion of Lebanon
Patrick J. Sloyan - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"In this formidable narrative, the prize-winning and super honest reporter, Patrick Sloyan, adds the depth of a scholar's context to produce a gripping reminder of why we should never forget history. He makes readers feel like they were eye witnesses." -- Ralph NaderFrom a Pulitzer... |
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Ravished Paradise: Forced March to Nothingness
Martik Matēnchean - Armenian History Books
Format: Print book
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On a starlit night, little Hovsep envisions inheriting his uncle's properties if, as according to the law, he dies childless. Little Varteni thinks, that the deportation is an opportunity to see the world. She soon discovers that it is a death march, while the dream of Hovsep turns... |
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;... |
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
Homer - University of California Press; New Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze - Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial systemshifted from London to New York.... |
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
Jack Lynch - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line... |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai... |
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His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around the world, a beacon of hope, courage, and perseverance in the face of opposition. Now, acclaimed poet Maya Angelou honors the life and remarkable soul of Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa... |
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D-Day and Normandy: A Visual History
Anthony Richards - Imperial War Museums
Format: Hardcover
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In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly secret D-Day invasion had begun. By the end of the day, the mission to liberate Europe had made its most crucial advance. This book marks the seventy-fifth... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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Barron's AP European History, 8th Edition
Barron's College Division - Barron's Educational Series; 8 edition
Format: eBook
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Fully updated to reflect the new exam to be administered in May 2016. This in-depth preparation for the AP European History exam features Two full-length model AP exams with all questions answered and explainedA comprehensive review of European history, starting with Europe during the Italian... |
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
James R Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first - and only - definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose "one small step" changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First... |
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers... |
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The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity
Ellen Hodgson Brown - Third Millennium Press
Format: Paperback
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WHAT WALL STREET DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. Shock waves from one Wall Street scandal after another have completely disillusioned us with our banking system; yet we cannot do without banks. Nearly all money today is simply bank credit. Economies run on it, and it is created when banks... |
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them
Mina Holland - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.) , Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFinalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award"When we eat, we travel." So begins this irresistible... |
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Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
Keith O'Brien - St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinalsand delighted that OBrien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story. Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book ReviewThe Cardinals of Scott... |
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The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
Marcia Coyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The Roberts Court seven years old sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom Through four landmark decisions Marcia Coyle one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts JrSeven... |
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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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Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
Tony Perrottet - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century's most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara;... |
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Daniel Stashower - St. Martin's Minotaur
Format: Hardcover
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"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." -- Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate... |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully... |
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
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Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
Paul Kennedy - Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPaul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of todays most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won.Engineers of Victoryis a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors... |
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Amphibious Warfare: Battle on the Beaches
Oscar E. Gilbert - Casemate
Format: Paperback
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One of the most difficult types of warfare to master, landing on a hostile beach requires scrupulous planning and intense coordination between the forces in the air, sea and land. With a history reaching back to the Persians landing on the Greek shores at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, it was the First... |
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
Gary Krist - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined... |
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry:... |
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Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class
Scott Timberg - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
Tim Grady - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking reassessment of the crucial but unrecognized roles Germany's Jews played at home and at the front during World War I This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian... |
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California comeback : how "failed state" became a model for the nation
Narda Zacchino - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown. In the most economically important state in the country and the 7th largest economy in the world a political revolution of historic importance... |
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Book Review
- David K. Shipler
[Abramsky] travels the United States meeting the poor, whose wrenching tales he inserts in tight vignettes among data-driven analyses and acute dissections of government programsAbramsky... |
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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor - Random House; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions.... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican... |
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San Francisco: Instant City, Promised Land
Michael Johns - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A local rock star once said, "San Francisco is forty-nine square miles surrounded by reality." No American city has such a broad sweep of staggering views - of the ocean, of a huge bay, of surrounding hills - or such a high opinion of its own worth. San Francisco has always been... |
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Country Music: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019This gorgeously illustrated and hugely... |
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The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
Cate Lineberry - Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The compelling untold story of a group of stranded US Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied EuropeWhen Army nurses and medics-part of the th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November they never anticipated the crash landing... |
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
JARED BROCK - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials.The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson-a dynamic, driven man with exceptional... |
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Presidents of War
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know
Dov Waxman - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely misunderstood. While Israelis... |
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The Real Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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The world has long been captivated by the story of Peter Pan and the countless movies, plays, musicals, and books that retell the story of Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Now, in this revealing behind-the-scenes book, author Piers Dudgeon examines the fascinating and complex relationships... |
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914,... |
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F Worth - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker... |
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story... |
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1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution
ROBERT C COTTRELL - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans - Portfolio
Format: Book
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until... |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven J. Ross - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEThe chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine... |
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
Clinton Romesha - Dutton Books
Format: Print book
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The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that... |
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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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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
Giles Milton - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied - and Axis - forces.An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book." - The Washington... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome... |
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Architecture's Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Hugh Howard - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between... |
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith E Stein - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, the witty, poetry-loving art lover became a legend of the avant-garde,... |
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
Charles Spencer Spencer, Earl - William Collins
Format: Hardcover
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed... |
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Waterloo: A New History
Gordon Corrigan - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In time for the bicentennial in 2015, a veteran historian brings the campaign and battle, its armies and their commanders, to fresh and vivid life in his brilliant new military history of one of the key battles in world history. Wellington remarked that Waterloo was “a damned nice... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage... |
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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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A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000
John Gibney - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century.. Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. Beginning with Irelands modern period at the dawn of the sixteenth century,... |
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Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences
James Buchan - Simon & Schuster; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the seminal events of our time. It inaugurated more than thirty years of war in the Middle East and fostered an Islamic radicalism that shapes foreign policy in the United States and Europe to this day. Drawing on his lifetime of engagement... |
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Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
Witold Rybczynski - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque... |
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice." - The Washington Post More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost... |
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Max Blumenthal - Nation Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book AwardIn Goliath New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics... |
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Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool
Nancy K. Stalker - University of California Press
Format: Paperback
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Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan's elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural... |
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
Andrew Gordon - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through... |
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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Frank Langfitt - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's... |
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Mcrae. - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project
Victor K. McElheny - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing the Map of Life is the dramatic story of the Human Genome Project from its origins, through the race to order the 3 billion subunits of DNA, to the surprises emerging as scientists seek to exploit the molecule of heredity. Its the first account to deal in depth with the intellectual... |
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Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea
Erik Reece - Farrar
Format: Print book
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For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or,... |
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship,... |
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
Craig A. Miller - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease,... |
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Eames
Gloria Koenig - Taschen; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Design's dynamic duo: The illustrious career of Charles and Ray Eames “Eventually everything connects—people, ideas, objects, etc. ... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” -Charles Eames “... everything hangs on something... |
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Edward Brooke-Hitching - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,... |
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Margalit Fox - Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.When famed... |
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United States of Jihad: The Untold Story of Americans Fighting for Radical Islam
Peter Bergen - Crown
Format: Print book
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A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans - born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere - have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight... |
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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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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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
JOYCE LEE MALCOM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict... |
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Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919?1945
JULIA BOYD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices -- even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett -- into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what's... |
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures... |
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Thomas Hager - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account... |
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Presidents and Their Generals: An American History of Command in War
Matthew Moten - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant "wars of choice" with limited congressional oversight, the executive and armed services have shared primary responsibility for often ill-defined objectives, strategies, and benefits. Matthew Moten shows the significance of negotiations... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt... |
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Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
Michael Gross - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this rollicking account of fashion photography's golden age, the New York Times bestselling author of Model and House of Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross, brings to life the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera.Before... |
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Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
Michael Shelden - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional... |
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The Hundred Years War: A People's History
Dr. David Green - Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Hundred Years War 13371453 dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways... |
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America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
Joseph Kelly - Overlook Hardcover; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1863, Union forces surrounded the city of Charleston. Their vice-like grip on the harbor would hold the city hostage for nearly two years, becoming the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. But for almost two centuries prior, a singular ideology forged among the headstrong... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State
Brian P Janiskee - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State is a readable and thought-provoking textbook, which clearly explains the politics and character of California's governmental institutions and the dynamics affecting the lives of Californians. In addition to thorough... |
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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Dave Barry - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry... |
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Battleships: The War at Sea
Casemate - Casemate
Format: Paperback
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Battleships conjure a golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves, carrying the military might of their respective countries around the globe.The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the latter stages of the British Empire, with the Royal... |
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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates
Alain De Botton - House of Anansi Press
Format: Print book
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Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies,... |
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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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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone, " "The New Yorker, " "Vanity Fair, " and other premier magazines, "Alligator Candy "is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.... |
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