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The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
Lizzie Collingham - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the worldIn The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years,... |
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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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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My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Howard Jones - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division) , entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized... |
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Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space
Gary Kitmacher - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versaSpace stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations:... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War
Salvatore R Mercogliano - United States Department of Defense
Format: Paperback
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This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations.... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart... |
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Homes: A Refugee Story
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah - Freehand Books
Format: Paperback
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria -- just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque... |
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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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Ranger: A Soldier's Life
Ralph USA Puckett (Ret.) - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several... |
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
Kari Herbert - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks,... |
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The White Darkness
DAVID GRANN - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer... |
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling "spellbinding true-life story" (USA TODAY) of a United States Special Forces team deployed to the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains in the weeks immediately following 9/11, overcoming great odds to become heroes of our era - now a major motion... |
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Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History
SAM MAGGS - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fun and feisty tour of famous girl BFFs from history who stuck together and changed the world.A modern girl is nothing without her squad of besties. But don't let all the hashtags fool you: the #girlsquad goes back a long, long time. In this hilarious and heartfelt book, geek girl... |
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Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
Beth Comstock - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of uncertainty. The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. But confronting... |
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The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War
Thomas R. Baker - University of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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The Sacred Cause of Union highlights Iowans' important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the state's Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitment, battlefield performance,... |
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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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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER - Betty Crocker
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cookBetty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
Jennifer T. Roberts - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient... |
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The Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry
Richard Barnett - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the present day, presented in a gorgeous packageThis achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating,... |
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The Persecution of the Knights Templar: Scandal, Torture, Trial
Alain Demurger - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of history's most infamous trial, following the doomed Order of the Knights Templar from scandal to suppression. The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned,... |
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Hannibal
Patrick Hunt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world.... |
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This Storied River: Legend & Lore of the Upper Mississippi
Dennis McCann - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Paperback
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In This Storied River, longtime journalist Dennis McCann takes us on an intimate tour of the Upper Mississippi - from Dubuque, Iowa, to the Minnesota headwaters, and dozens of places in between. Far more than a travel guide, This Storied River celebrates the Upper Mississippi's colorful... |
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Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced... |
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
MAX WALLACE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution." -- Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening... |
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Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
Sara Egge - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities - in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers... |
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot,... |
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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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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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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest... |
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Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
John G. Neihardt - Bison Books
Format: Paperback
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Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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Napoleon: A Life
Adam Zamoyski - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed... |
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Blood Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1462-1485
Hugh Bicheno - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The concluding volume to this rousing two-part history of the Wars of the Roses, England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated by a master historian. England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry VI languishes... |
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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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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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies
Marianne Monson - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador
Kathryn T. Long - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish... |
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble* Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed,... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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U.S. Marines in Afghanistan 2010-2014: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography
Paul W Westermeyer - Marine Corps
Format: Hardcover
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Excerpt from U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2010-2014: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography:This volume, second part of a series focusing on Marine Corps Actions in Afghanistan, presents a collection of 21 articles, interviews, and speeches describing many aspects of the U.S. Marine Corps'... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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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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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
George Morton-Jack - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite... |
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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Waldo H Heinrichs - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind... |
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The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told
Tom McCarthy - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback
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In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common - from the bloody battlefields... |
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TIME-LIFE The Mob: Inside the Brutal World of the Mafia
Time-Life Books. - Time-Life
Format: Paperback
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Inside the brutal world of the mafiaThe Mob. The Mafia. Organized crime. America's violent underworld has always fascinated us - the colorful criminals, dirty cops, crooked politicians and shady businessmen. It's a hard and high-stakes world, fueled by gambling, prostitution, extortion,... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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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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Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval
HEINZ SCHILLING - OXFORD University Press
Format: Print book
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No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther.In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation... |
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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family
Nina Sankovitch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time,... |
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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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Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign
Tim Ewart - Andre Deutsch
Format: Hardcover
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Former ITV Royal Editor Tim Ewart looks at the life and reign of the woman who has become one of the United Kingdom's best-loved monarchs, Queen Elizabeth II. With many unique images from the Royal Archives, this beautifully illustrated book - updated to include William and Kate's... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John... |
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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Finding a New Midwestern History
Jon K. Lauck - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular... |
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A Rumor of War
PHILIP CAPUTO - Picador
Format: Paperback
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In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home -- physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism... |
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Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb
Martijn Van Calmthout - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of "spin" and spearheaded the search for Hitler's atom bomb as World War II came to an end.This engaging biography of an important Dutch physicist brings to light his significant... |
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50 Battles That Changed the World
William Weir - Permuted Press
Format: Paperback
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An important look at the military conflicts that most altered the course of history.Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern... |
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Western Europe 2017-2018
WAYNE C THOMPSON - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region's geography, people, history, political system, constitution,... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
ANNE APPLEBAUM - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization... |
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Caf Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Beebe Bahrami - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Print book
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Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date... |
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It Happened in Iowa: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Tammy Partsch - TwoDot
Format: Paperback
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For most Americans, Iowa brings to mind endless acres of corn fields, one of the country's longest-running state fairs, and American Gothic, but few may know how it serendipitously became the birthplace of the most iconic apple, why thousands of cyclists brave the Midwestern heat and humidity... |
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
JULIA PIERPONT - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. A Stylist Must-read Book of 2018 In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising... |
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Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk around the World at the Columbian Exposition
Norm Bolotin - University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
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Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts... |
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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved into... |
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Once upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom - Blue River Press
Format: Print book
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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Eric Dezenhall - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence... |
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Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Victor Ripp - Farrar
Format: Print book
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In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell's Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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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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So Great a Prince
LAUREN JOHNSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and original portrait of the year the young Henry VIII assumes the throne, revealing a kingdom at a crossroads between two dynamic monarchs and two ages of history. England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers... |
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The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
KEITH LOWE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA - Liveright
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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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 Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Stephanie Elizondo Griest - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel... |
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A Great State Fair: The Blue Ribbon Foundation and the Revival of the Iowa State
William B Friedricks - Business Publications Corporation Inc.
Format: Paperback
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For decades, the Iowa State Fair was considered the classic summer exposition; it was what most Americans envisioned when they thought of a state fair. But years of neglect almost destroyed the once grand, turn-of-the-century fairgrounds. After a number of efforts to save the facility failed,... |
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The East India Company, 16001858: A Short History with Documents
Ian J Barrow - Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded... |
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I, Who Did Not Die
Zahed Haftlang - Regan Arts
Format: Print book
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Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982 - It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed... |
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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial
Stuart S Blume - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important tools in the public health arsenal, vaccines are to thank for the global eradication of smallpox, and for allowing us to defeat the dire threat of infectious disease for more than one hundred years. Vaccine development is where scientists turn when faced with the frightening... |
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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1 (2) (The West Point History of Warfare Series)
The United States Military Academy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets.. Since 1836, United States Military... |
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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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Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony
JAN MORRIS - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary -- and strikingly illustrated -- reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior... |
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The Curse of Oak Island
RANDALL SULLIVAN - ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Format: Print book
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In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
Judith Matloff - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heightsMountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly... |
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Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
GEOFFREY WAWRO - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic.... |
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
DAVID CANNADINE - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science,... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Kenneth G Langone - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades,... |
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Journey: An Illustrated History of Travel
Simon Adams - DK
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery - from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions.Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific... |
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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
ULYSSES S GRANT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant's Memoirs yet published.One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's... |
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and Heroes
Carolyne Larrington - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating introduction to the vivid, violent, boisterous world of the Norse myths and their cultural legacy -- from Tolkien to Game of ThronesThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
Elliott J. Gorn - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
Gregory A Daddis - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated... |
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
MARTIN GAYFORD - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Martin Gayford's masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselvesThe development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative.... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Alex Kershaw - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried... |
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