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E-Z American History
William Kellogg - Barron's Educational Series; 4.0 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This one-volume summary of American history cites all important names and dates. It covers European colonization, the American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, social and economic expansion in the nineteenth century, slavery and the Civil War, foreign policy between 1877 and 1914,... |
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The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great
Harvey J. Kaye - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Generation gave voice to its founding principles, the Four Freedoms: Freedom from want and from fear. Freedom of speech and religion. In the name of the Four Freedoms they fought the Great Depression. In the name of the Four Freedoms they defeated the Axis... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
Chris Jennings - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism - and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements.... |
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Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond
George Christie - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Hells Angels. Christie was the negotiator,... |
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The Atlas of California: Mapping the Challenge of a New Era
Richard A. Walker - University of California Press
Format: Book
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California is at a crossroads. For decades a global leader, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions, the state has recently faced double-digit unemployment, multi-billion dollar budget deficits and the loss of trillions in home values. This atlas brings together the latest research and statistics... |
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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II
Kevin Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II. The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February -- targeting German aircraft... |
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Vanishing Ireland
Richard Fitzgerald - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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"In this homage to their homeland, acclaimed author Edna O'Brien and gifted photographer Richard Fitzgerald recall an Ireland that is quickly becoming part of the past. 80 duotone photographs and 24 full-color photographs" |
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Fingerprints of the Gods
Graham Hancock - BCA
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of "The Sign and the Seal". This book describes the quest for the whereabouts, nature and few surviving traces of a lost civilization that was destroyed long ago and obliterated from human memory, long before any of the cultures of historical antiquity rose to prominence.... |
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The American Future: A History
Simon Schama - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny ... .A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts." - Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon... |
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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This masterwork of travel literature and history provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Caribbean and illuminates its fierce grip on the world's imagination.From the moment Columbus gazed out from the deck of the Santa Mara in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean... |
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The Trail of Tears
Gloria Jahoda - Wings
Format: Hardcover
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Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the few white Americans who fought to help... |
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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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Crossing the Line: A Blue Jacket's World War II Odyssey
Alvin Kernan - Naval Institute Press; Naval Institute Press edition
Format: Paperback
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A gritty, humorous, and knowing account of an enlisted man's life aboard World War II aircraft carriers, this memoir captures the tedium of a seaman's routine and the terror of the war's great battles, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. |
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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Military Times Best Book of the YearJ. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department. Upon returning home, traveling throughout the United States to pay his respects to the dead and wounded,... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
John Powers - Snow Lion Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Introduces the basic beliefs of Buddhism, discusses how it was brought to Tibet, and explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantic methods for personal transformation |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to The Da Vinci Code
Richard Smoley - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Who were the Gnostics? Were they heretics, or were they ancient visionaries who possessed the keys to the deepest secrets of Christianity? Where did they come from? Did they leave any descendants? Why were they suppressed by the early Church? And why do their ideas keep reappearing throughout... |
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The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield
KRIS PARONTO - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Former Army Ranger Kris Paronto, a survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that was subject of the book and movie 13 Hours, provides powerful, motivational tools for surviving and thriving to bring readers discipline, motivation, success, and peace to life.... |
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Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Owen Beattie - Greystone Books; Third Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Re-released to coincide with the discovery of one of the lost Franklin Expedition ships.Frozen in Time tells the dramatic story of how Sir John Franklin’s elite naval forces came within sight of the Northwest Passage, only to succumb to unimaginable horrors. A gripping tale of cannibalism,... |
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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
Vincent J Cannato - Harper
Format: Print book
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"By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato's American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation." - Walter Isaacson "Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical... |
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The Ojibwa (Indians of North America)
Helen Hornbeck-Tanner - Chelsea House Publications
Format: Library Binding
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Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Ojibwa Indians. |
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But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir
Marceline Loridan - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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"You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back." - Marceline Loridan's father to her, 1944A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library... |
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The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
Mark G. Hirsch - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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In November 2000 the Smithsonian National Museum of American History opened a permanent exhibit, "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden." This companion volume is a worthy complement, with more than 300 color photos and an introduction by Richard Norton Smith, noted historian... |
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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Katherine J Cramer - University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol... |
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The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
Helen McPhail - I.B. Tauris
Format: Print book
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The horror of the Western Front trenches is a well-worn theme but what was life like on 'the other side of the Western front' in the First World War? This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid... |
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
Stephen E. Ambrose - The Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the most exciting escape narratives to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II chronicles Jan Baalsrud’s escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway. |
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Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence
Lawrence Durrell - Arcade Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Part travelogue, part notebook, part autobiogaphy, this text preserves memories from Lawrence Durrell's intimate experience of the Midi, and scattered through the text are 19 poems.
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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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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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
BEATE KLARSFELD - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard... |
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
Walter R. Borneman - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would decide the fate of the entire North American continentnot... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Haider Warraich - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation... |
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The Birth of Britain: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1
Winston Churchill - Barnes & Noble
Format: Print book
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The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their... |
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Sarah Gristwood - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule - whether they were on the throne or behind the scenes, women held unprecedented power for more than a hundred years. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici,... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Kevin Fong M.D. - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world’s environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human... |
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
JOHN MAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive... |
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Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
Richard Ostling - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid examination of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of America's leading religion journalists covers everyaspect of this little-understood community of faith whose family values, business success, and evangelistic missions have helped it become one of the world's... |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages
Candace Wellman - Washington State University Press
Format: Paperback
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Throughout the mid-1800s, Coast and Interior Salish families arranged strategic cross-cultural marriages, and these alliances played a crucial role in regional settlement and spared Puget Sound's upper corner from the tragic conflicts other regions experienced. Although accounts of the men exist... |
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Norway To America: A History of the Migration
Ingrid Semmingsen - University of Minnesota Press
Format: Print book
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This book tells the story of the migration as it affected both countries and investigates the reasons for OC American Fever.OCO The story ends with a discussion of the ways in which Norwegian-Americans retain their ties to Norway. The book was first published in Norway as DrAm og Dad (Dream... |
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan - Yale Univ Press
Format: Print book
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled... |
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant portrait of the "original affluent society"--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then... |
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Medieval European Armies 1300-1500
Terence Wise - Osprey Publishing
Format: Book
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Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect the newly-won borders and independence,... |
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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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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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Where Were You?: America Remembers The JFK Assassination
Gus Russo - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Hardcover
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November 22, 1963. A policeman's wife was fetching their sick child from school. A young shoe store manager had no idea what lay in wait for him that day. A future president was tending to his farm. A future vice president was standing on the steps of his college library. A Georgetown... |
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Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America
Joseph Tirella - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses - New York's "Master Builder" - brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began... |
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Diana: Her True Story--in Her Own Words
ANDREW MORTON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death.When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy.... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Carole Haber - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Print book
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On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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A History of Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries
Douglas Palmer - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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An illustrated survey of 100 key events in Earths dramatic history.A History of Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries is a fascinating account of the discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one planet in our solar system that can support life. It surveys 100 key events in the evolutionary... |
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
Taylor Branch - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Taylor Branch, author of the acclaimed America in the King Years, introduces selections from the trilogy in clear context and gripping detail.. The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes who achieved miracles in constructive purpose and yet poignantly fell short. Here is the full... |
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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
Max Adams - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,... |
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Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Harold H Brown - University Alabama Press
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant
Franc J. Newcomb - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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A classic of ethnology, reproducing in full color 35 sandpaintings from this important Navajo healing ceremony and analyzing their composition and artistic devices. The rites are described and explained and the symbolism and myth they express thoroughly explored. |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Dana Canedy - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.It all started with Times photo editor Darcy... |
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3 women
Robert Altman - Criterion Collection
Format: DVD video
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In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies... |
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The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream
C. Baxter Kruger - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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Millions have found their spiritual hunger satisfied by William P. Young's #1 New York Times bestseller, The Shack--the story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Now C. Baxter Kruger's... |
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
Herbert Asbury - Thunder's Mouth Press; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback
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The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, “from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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Pacific Northwest's Whaling Coast
Dale Vinnedge - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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Pacific Northwest waters from Alaska to Oregon lie between the Arctic whaling grounds and the home whaling ports of San Francisco and Honolulu. While the Pacific Northwest was not a whaling destination, whales in these rich grounds were pursued for many years as whale ships moved between... |
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George Washington: A Life in Books
Kevin J. Hayes - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams... |
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The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to ISIS
Gérard Chaliand - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from... |
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46 Pages
Scott Liell - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's coloines with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for liberty in all its forms, and an abiding... |
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Where Past Meets Present: The Amazing People, Places & Stories of Southern Oregon
Dennis Powers - Hellgate Press
Format: Paperback
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Southern Oregon is rich with amazing tales about its people, locales and events. Whether you've recently moved there, are a long-time resident, or just planning a visit, you'll find the history and legends of this area as fascinating as those found anywhere in the country.Historian... |
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The History of Shipwrecks
Angus Konstam - The Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Stories of shipwrecks, tragedy, treasure, and daring rescues have fascinated readers for centuries. Wherever in the world you may be, there are famous wrecks to discover and multitudes of valuable artifacts trapped within these undersea hulks. The History of Shipwrecks explores the exciting... |
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Scotland: A Concise History
Fitzroy Maclean - Thames and Hudson
Format: Paperback
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"The Scots", said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, "have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years". He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland has a rough and bloodstained history. It is a complex one too, but Sir Fitzroy... |
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Lawrence N Powell - Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback
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America's most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full... |
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The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
Ramsey Clark - Thunder's Mouth Pr; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Did the U.S. commit war crimes during Operation Desert Storm? Former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark documents horrors he witnessed during a 2,000-mile journey through the war zone and presents a scathing indictment of U.S. foreign policy leading to the Gulf War and its devastating consequences.... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
Michelle Malkin - Mercury Ink
Format: Hardcover
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Conservative journalist Malkin provides an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. Learn how Paul Revere became America's... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before... |
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Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
Kathleen M. Kendrick - Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Classic Aircraft
Walter J. Boyne - Magna Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jacket and book look new with no wear or markings in spite of being over 20 years old Read more Continue reading Read less |
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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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King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb
Zahi A Hawass - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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The ultimate book on King Tut and his tomb--the most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known.The fabulous treasures of Tutankhamun have fascinated the public since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. Many books have been written about the boy king and his tomb, but this... |
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History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
Deborah E Lipstadt - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's... |
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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality
Brooks D. Simpson - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing There are few periods in American history more consquential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
Dan Jones - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history - the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal... |
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Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the US Air Force
Bill Yenne - Regnery History; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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General Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold is widely considered the father of the United States Air Force. But his long list of accomplishments doesn’t begin or end there. He was also the first and only five-star general of the US Air Force; one of the first US military aviators;... |
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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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A Catalogue of Angels: The Heavenly, the Fallen, and the Holy Ones Among Us
Vinita Hampton Wright - Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback
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We often think of angels as winged creatures with supernatural powers that assist us when we are in danger. Where did that image of wings come from? Popular novelist, Vinita Hampton Wright, answers this and other questions in this illuminating and richly informative guide to angels in Judaism,... |
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The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts
Burke Davis - Wings
Format: Hardcover
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Wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the Civil War. Includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and more, |
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World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It
A. Scott Berg - Library Of America
Format: Print book
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For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century. Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne
Martin King - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth.Untold millions who saw and read Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45.... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera
DK Publishing - DK Eyewitness Travel; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera uses unparalleled photography, 3-D illustrated maps, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations of major architectural sights to help you uncover the secrets of this beautiful region. Detailed street views of all the key areas to visit give... |
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
Irmgard A Hunt - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive... |
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The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
David S Shields - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey. This fascinating... |
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Franklin's Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus
JOHN GEIGER - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
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A beautifully illustrated account of the thrilling expedition that recovered a ship lost to time - now in paperbackSince the disastrous and fatal end of the Franklin Expedition nearly seventeen decades ago, the mysterious fate of the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror has captured the public's... |
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