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Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems
Michel Anctil - McGill-Queens University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals... |
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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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Typewriter: The History The Machines The Writers
Tony Allan - Shelter Harbor Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up in Urban Outfitters to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual experience on a tablet,... |
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Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Somme: A Guide for Family Historians
Simon Fowler - Pen & Sword Family History
Format: Print book
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If you want to find out about an ancestor who served on the Somme during the First World War - during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or at any time during the fighting in this sector of the Western Front - this book is the ideal guide. It provides practical information and advice on how to conduct... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu
Les Standiford - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April... |
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais - Verso
Format: Print book
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
Lizhi Fang - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S., "--NoveList. |
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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
Pamela D. Toler - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who says women don't go to war From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns... |
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris - New Press
Format: Print book
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Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center... |
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking,... |
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Japan and the Shackles of the Past
R. Taggart Murphy - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic... |
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Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy
Martha Long - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover
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After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent... |
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Becoming Lincoln
WILLIAM W FREEHLING - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln -- universally acknowledged as one of America's greatest presidents -- have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln, renowned historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the prewar years, revealing how Lincoln... |
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Bringing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels
Andrei Netto - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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In February 2011, Andrei Netto, a reporter for O Estado de So Paulo , one of Brazil's main newspapers, traveled without permission into a region of Libya controlled by the regime, aiming to cover the first armed revolution of the Arab Spring. One of the first foreigners to reveal to the world... |
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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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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Bart Moore-Gilbert - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting... |
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Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio
Misha Glenny - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The astonishing story of an ordinary man forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down How did Antnio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, a hardworking young father, become the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil's most wanted... |
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Cuba's Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story
Peter C Bjarkman - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year... |
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1864: The Forgotten War That Shaped Modern Europe
Tom Buk-Swienty - Profile Books
Format: Print book
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The Battle of Dybbl, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun... |
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Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
Michael Knox Beran - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Arguing that it is "less the quality of the crimes than the attitude of the age which determines the gruesomeness of its murders," Michael Beran brings to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, and gives us a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility... |
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade
Henry Finder - Random House
Format: Print book
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The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century - including pieces by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness
Denise Uwimana - Plough Publishing House
Format: Paperback
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A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of RebirthIn the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely... |
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Francois Furstenberg - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europeto the core, the new United States was struggling forsurvival in the face of financial insolvency and bitterpolitical and regional divisions. When the United StatesSpoke French explores the republics formative yearsfrom the viewpoint of a distinguished... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that... |
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The Real Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him
Piers Dudgeon - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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The world has long been captivated by the story of Peter Pan and the countless movies, plays, musicals, and books that retell the story of Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Now, in this revealing behind-the-scenes book, author Piers Dudgeon examines the fascinating and complex relationships... |
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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Rohini Mohan - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict,... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America
Ronald H Bayor - Johns Hopkins University Press,
Format: Print book
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America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden - Penguin Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
John Doe - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene, with 50 rare photosPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle... |
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Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP
Yvonne Ryan - The University Press of Kentucky
Format: Print book
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Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organization for more than twenty years. Under his leadership, the NAACP spearheaded efforts that contributed to landmark civil rights legislation,... |
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Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
Arnold van de Laar - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini.From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder... |
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After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
James Robertson - National Geographic Society
Format: Hardcover
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Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold... |
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The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt
Patrick H. Breen - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt... |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar - Random House
Format: eBook
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington... |
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941–1943 (The War in the West Book 2)
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Volume two in this "expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining" history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus) .. James Hollands The Rise of Germany, the first volume in his War in the West trilogy, was widely praised for his impeccable... |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
James Neff - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying... |
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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row
Damien Echols - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the greatest legal injustices of our time sprang one of the most unlikely - and unforgettable - love stories. Damien Echols was just eighteen years old when he was condemned to death for a crime he didn't commit. His case - that of the infamous "West Memphis Three"... |
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Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Catherine Mayer - Henry Holt and Co.; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of WalesHe is one of the world's most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man. In this brilliant... |
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise
Lucinda Hawksley - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate,... |
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Donovan's Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy LinesEurope, World War II
Albert Lulushi - Arcade Pubishing, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.The OSS - Office of Strategic Services - created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh... |
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The Mafia at War: The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organized Crime
Tim Newark - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The secret wars between the Mafia, Mussolini, and Hitler, and how the Allied forces and organized crime fought side-by-side in World War II!Drawing on a wealth of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and declassified intelligence documents, some never published before, The Mafia at War reconstructs... |
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Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Joe Domanick - Simon & Schuster,
Format: eBook
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An award-winning investigative reporter reveals the troubled history of the LAPD in a gripping story filled with hard-boiled, real-life characters that bring to life the ravages of the criminal justice system.Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously a drama of cops, crime... |
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We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays that together... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
DAVID ARIOSTO - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelvesFidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain.... |
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Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans
Adam Rackley - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A riveting first-person account and history of rowers who have attempted to navigate across the AtlanticMore people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters... |
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Iron, Fire, and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
Ed West - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father's death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety.... |
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
William Rosen - Viking Adult
Format: Book
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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics... |
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
C. Alexander Hortis - Prometheus Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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This original and "meticulously researched retelling of historys most infamous voyage" (Denise Kiernan, New York Times best-selling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought... |
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Empire of Sin
Gary Krist - Dreamscape Media, LLC
Format: Audiobook
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Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans 30-years war against itself, pitting the citys elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson,... |
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Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
Svenja O'Donnell - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for sixty yearsGrowing up in Paris as the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her great-grandparents,... |
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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
JAMES M SCOTT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfill his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World... |
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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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Drone Warfare: The Development of Unmanned Aerial Conflict
Dave Sloggett - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator or pilot on the ground or in another vehicle. Drone Warfare is one of the first... |
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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump
Clifford D. Conner - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As a result, Connor argues, Big Science has been irredeemably corrupted by Big Money. This corruption threatens the air we breathe, the water... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to e-book
Roderick Cave - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A study of books through history is a study of human history. In The History of the Book in 100 Books, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -- literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion,... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From his earliest days, Lincoln spoke to the public directly through the press. When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation's history, closing down papers that were "disloyal" and even jailing... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
Matthew Parker - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the lush beauty of Jamaicas northern coast lies the true story of Ian Flemings iconic creation James Bond. For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand... |
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Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Catherine A. Stewart - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: eBook
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From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this... |
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Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis
Whet Moser - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chicago has been called the "most American of cities" and the "great American city." Not the biggest or the most powerful, nor the richest, prettiest, or best, but the most American. How did it become that? And what does it even mean? At its heart, Chicago is America's... |
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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
David Lough - Picador USA
Format: eBook
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"Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position.... |
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Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust
Rita Goldberg - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically," writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank's... |
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The Nazi hunters
Andrew Nagorski - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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"Describes the small group of men and women who sought out former Nazis all over the world after the Nuremberg trials, refusing to let their crimes be forgotten or allowing them to quietly live inconspicuous, normal lives."--NoveList. |
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home
Robert M. Poole - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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While On Hallowed Ground chronicled the history of the cemetery, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery is the powerful contemporary biography of a five-acre plot where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars. Gifted... |
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Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty
K. M. Kostyal - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The eras dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated... |
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Menominee Indians
Gavin Schmitt - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there... |
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
William Albracht - NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In October 1969, Captain William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning,... |
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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond
Sonia Shah - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: eBook
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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most... |
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Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The revelatory eyewitness account about Guantnamo Bay - detainees murdered, a secret CIA facility for torture, and the US government cover up - by the Staff Sergeant who felt honor-bound to uncover it.Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman was a loyal member of the armed forces and a proud American... |
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The West Point History of the Civil War
The United States Military Academy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive military history of the Civil War, featuring the same exclusive images, tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy to teach the history of the art of war to West Point cadets.The United States Military Academy at West Point is the gold... |
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead,... |
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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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Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
Garret Keizer - Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocationPerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously... |
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Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
Jonathan Haslam - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War.Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving... |
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Philip Ball - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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After World War II most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime but the true story is much more complicated In Serving the Reich Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history contrasting the career of Peter Debye... |
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Sports betting and bookmaking : an American history
Arne K Lang - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: eBook
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Horse racing in America dates back to the colonial era when street races were a common occurrence. The commercialization of horse racing produced a sport that would briefly surpass all others in popularity, with annual races such as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes growing... |
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Dynasty : the rise and fall of the House of Caesar
Tom Holland - Doubleday, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"The follow-up to Rubicon picks up with the murder of Julius Caesar and vividly depicts the intrigue, murder, ambition and treachery of Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero,"--NoveList. |
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Kissingers Shadow: The Long Reach of Americas Most Controversial Statesman
Greg Grandin - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new account of Americas most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of Americas current imperial stance. In his fascinating new book Kissingers Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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Night: A Memoir
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience of the world."... |
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Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump
DARREN J MULLOY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American... |
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The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
Edward White - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Print book
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A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an eraThe Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer... |
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
Charlotte S Riley - The University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Print book
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Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangelist after emancipation. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first discovery of such a memoir in the South.... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero... |
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The fight to vote
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought... |
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The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett
Nathan Ward - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland... |
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Kinshasha Conwill - Smithsonian Books
Format: Print book
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Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present... |
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RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream
Jerry Oppenheimer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Audiobook
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From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kenned Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes... |
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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman
John S.D. Eisenhower - NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general."... |
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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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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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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A leading authority draws on new research to explain why the adolescent years are so developmentally crucial, and what we must do to raise happier, more successful kids.Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg... |
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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 End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
Jay Ingram - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little... |
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
Robert Jan van Pelt - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people -- mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others -- lost their lives. More than 280 objects... |
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James and Dolley Madison: Americas First Power Couple
Bruce Chadwick - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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This revealing new portrait of James and Dolley Madison introduces the reader to Americas first power couple. Using recently uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, among other sources, historian Bruce Chadwickhas been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons personal... |
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
D C B Lieven - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing." - Foreign AffairsOne of the world's... |
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured... |
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Presidents of War
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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