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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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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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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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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal helps you get the most from your visit to this unique European country. You'll find in-depth detail on all the important sights with maps, photos, and illustrated 3-D cutaways for major sights.DK's insider travel tips and essential local information... |
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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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The Story of Innovation: How Yesterday's Discoveries Lead to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs
James Trefil - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Written for science geeks and everyone curious about the world around us, this comprehensive sweep through modern science and technology is a solid family reference, covering the most important innovations and inventions in engineering, physics, medicine, chemistry, biology, and more.From... |
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Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Larrie D. Ferreiro - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie D. Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery,... |
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365 days
Ronald J Glasser - George Braziller
Format: Print book : English : Third editionView all editions and formats
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A new edition of Ron Glasser's classic. In this gripping account, Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by those on the front lines. "The best book to come out of Vietnam." David Mamet Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September... |
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Modern Art: Art Essentials Series
Amy Dempsey - Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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A compact, introductory guide to modern art that explains styles, schools, and movements from Impressionism to the present dayThe first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated... |
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Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was -- again -- at war with France, a war that would end with... |
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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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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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The Illustrated Delaware River: The History of a Great American River
Hal Taylor - Schiffer Publishing
Format: Print book
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Filled with 140 finely-crafted original drawings and paintings, this book is designed to guide readers as they explore the rich and diverse heritage of the historic Delaware River Valley. This waterway that defines the common borders of the states of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,... |
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry:... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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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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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War -- a conflict... |
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Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Mark Braude - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A rollicking narrative history of Monte Carlo, capturing its nineteenth-century rise as the world's first modern casino-resort and its Jazz Age heyday as infamous playground of the rich.Monte Carlo has long been known as a dazzling playground for the rich and famous. Less well known are the shrewd... |
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Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith
Heidi Neumark - Abingdon Press
Format: Print book
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Imagine discovering a secret - that your family has a hidden Jewish heritage. That your grandfather died in a concentration camp and your grandmother was a death-camp survivor. How did you not know? How would it change your spiritual life? Heidi Neumark, a Lutheran pastor, happened upon... |
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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Wendell Steavenson - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Through a series of stunningly rendered, character-drive vignettes, New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson recounts the events of the Egyptian Revolution - from Mubarak's fall to Morsi's. Here is the panoply of Tahrir Square, a pointillist portrait of a people enacting and reacting... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,... |
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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
Laura Engelstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr... |
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Dan Albert - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive.Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready... |
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand... |
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
Aude Grouard de Tocqueville - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacn, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including... |
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Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
Nick Lloyd - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917, upwards of 500,000 men were killed or wounded, maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this... |
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
Mary Beth Norton - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December... |
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The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Thomas Neil Gareth Morris - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century,... |
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of Archaeological Institute of Americas Felicia A. Holton Book Award * Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science * An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 * A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 * A Science News Best Book... |
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Churchill The Young Warrior: How He Helped Win the First World War
John Harte - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill's early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars -- on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally... |
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The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
Yaakov Katz - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insiders view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city... |
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Testament of Youth:
Vera Brittain - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Egerton In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed forces, serving in London, in Malta, and at the Western Front in France. By war's end, all those... |
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C Waterhouse - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.The Land of Enterprise... |
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History
Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece... |
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Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea
JOHN F LEHMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe,... |
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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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East and Southeast Asia 2019-2020
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding - in one semester - of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative... |
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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain
DK. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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With superb photography, illustrations, and maps, this comprehensive travel guide will help you plan your trip to Spain.This guide will show you the best of Barcelona--such as Gaud's Sagrada Famlia and Park Gell--to the spectacular castles of Castile, the golden beaches of Costa Blanca... |
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
Walter Lord - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming... |
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Eight Years to the Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission
Nancy Atkinson - Page Street Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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On July 16, 1969, three astronauts set off on an historic mission to land on the moon. Now, 50 years later, a new book celebrates the achievement of the Apollo 11 mission, detailing an incredible period of science and engineering history. In Apollo 11: Eight Years to the Moon, unique personal... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
Barbara Boxer - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life."---Senator Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning... |
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Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City
Joseph E B Elliott - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Philadelphia possesses an exceptionally large number of places that have almost disappeared - from workshops and factories to sporting clubs and societies, synagogues, churches, theaters, and railroad lines. In Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, urban observers Nathaniel Popkin and Peter... |
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Men of Air: The Courage and Sacrifice of Bomber Command in World War II
Kevin Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the everyday heroism of bomber crews in 1944, a turning point in the war against Germany. Bomber combat crews faced a wide array of perils as they flew over German territory. Bursts of heavy flak could tear the wings from their planes in a split second. Flaming bullets from... |
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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
JULIO MACLENNAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original and innovative examination of the continent -- and its culture -- that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today's nations were... |
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John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1779-1821
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War.The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American... |
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Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology
Eric H Cline - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Cambodia and Laos
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring these cultured and ancient nations.Admire Siem Reap's awe-inspiring Angkor Wat, sample French-Lao cuisine at Luang Prabang's waterfront restaurants, or take... |
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How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language
Simon Horobin - Oxford University Press 2016.
Format: Print book
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The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language, examining how the language... |
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Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Gareth Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, Unraveling The Double Helix tells the story one of the greatest triumphs of modern science.Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s... |
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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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Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
Stephanie McCurry - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic stories revealing women's transformative role in the American Civil War.We think of war as a man's world, but women have always played active roles in times... |
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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Steven Strogatz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus - how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled... |
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution - a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner. . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history... |
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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Bully nation : how the American establishment creates a bullying society
Charles Derber - University Press of Kansas
Format: Print book
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"It's not just the bully in the schoolyard that we should be worried about. The one-on-one bullying that dominates the national conversation, this timely book suggests, is actually part of a larger problem--a natural outcome of the bullying nature of our national institutions.... |
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
Robert Kershaw - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A visceral and momentous narrative of the first twenty-four hours of D-Day on Omaha Beach: the most dramatic Allied landing of World War II.Before World War II, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander Field... |
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The Third War
Jay Solomon - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower comes a riveting, deeply reported exploration of the decades-long power struggle between Iran and the United States that led to a historic - and potentially disastrous - nuclear deal. For more... |
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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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By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
Max Eisen - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in AuschwitzIn the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor "Max" Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard... |
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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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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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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Alistair Horne - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait... |
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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Frank Langfitt - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's... |
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Iraq: A History
John Robertson - ONEWorld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account... |
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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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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure
Paul Veyne - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan... |
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Boston's Massacre
Eric Hinderaker - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American... |
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia
Lisa Dickey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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**One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017****One of Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January**Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times -- in 1995, 2005 and 2015 -- making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again... |
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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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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir
Val Kilmer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade... |
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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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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,... |
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Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps
Burgess Owens - Post Hill Pr
Format: Print book
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The black middle class - saviors of the American way.Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps documents the role of the 21 white, self-avowed socialist, atheist and Marxist founders of the NAACP and their impact on the Black community's present status at the top of our nations... |
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Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
Msia Kibona Clark - Ohio University Press
Format: Paperback
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Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa,... |
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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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The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age
John Woolf - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic,... |
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
Heather Ann Thompson - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice - including information never released to the public - published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On... |
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The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1772:
Various - Library of America; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven... |
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Night; with Connections
RINEHART AND WINSTON HOLT - Holt
Format: Book
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An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. |
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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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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Cuba
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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Explore Cuba, the famous Caribbean island, and stop by Old Havana, visit museums, and eat authentic moros y cristianos.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider tips are sure to make your trip outstanding. Whether you're looking for unique... |
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The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific: 1945
Will Iredale - Pegasus
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary story of courage, valor, and dogged determination, the vivid account of how a few brave young pilots ensured lasting peace during World War II. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were... |
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Brazil: A Biography
Lilia M Schwarcz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
Charles Pellegrino - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning,... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans - Portfolio
Format: Book
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
Walter Alvarez - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians.... |
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5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP World History Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition
Adam Stevens - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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500 Ways to achieve your highest scoreFrom Foundations: 8000 BC to 60 CE to the Present Era: 1914 to Present --there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP World History exam. That's why we've selected these 500 AP-style questions and answers that cover... |
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The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Richard Panek - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds, and cultures, and tracing our millennia-long efforts to unravel its secrets - from Aristotelian philosophy to Newton's apple to the recent, groundbreaking... |
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Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War
Jörn Leonhard - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This is probably the meatiest and most comprehensive WWI book yet published ... It is consistently intelligent and thoughtful." -- Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
BRIAN VANDEMARK - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much... |
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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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The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami
David Good - Dey Street Books,
Format: Print book
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Rooted in two vastly different cultures, a young man struggles to understand himself, find his place in the world, and reconnect with his mother - and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest - in this powerful memoir that combines adventure, history, and anthropology."My... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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War Babies: The Generation That Changed America
Richard H Pells - Cultural History Press
Format: Print book
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War Babies: The Generation That Changed America examines the lives and careers of Americans born between 1939 and 1945. No one has written such a book about this generation. War Babies deals especially with musicians and composers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel; with... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus... |
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The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise And Fall Of A Fugitive Slave Community
Matthew J. Clavin - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent... |
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Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel
Martin Duberman - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposure - for which he was knighted in 1911 - of the brutal conditions... |
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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
John Man - Da Capo, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that... |
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Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia
Srinath Raghavan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives... |
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John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
E Lawrence Abel - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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When John Wilkes Booth died - shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln - all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among... |
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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Joy-Ann Reid - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that,... |
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Book of Man, A Navy SEAL's Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood
Derrick F Van Orden - SP Publishing
Format: Print book
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Written by a 26-year veteran of the United States Navy, member of SEAL Teams and star of the hit movie Act of Valor, Derrick Van Orden shares his experiences from around the world to both educate and entertain. Stories of fist fighting, fishing, and driving fast cars are all interwoven... |
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The British Empire: How it was built and how it fell
Piers Brendon - Connell Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century... |
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Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar
Virginia Vallejo - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A revealing memoir of Colombian television journalist Virginia Vallejo's affair with the "King of Cocaine," notorious Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. At 33, Virginia Vallejo was part of the media... |
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Korean Dream: A Vision For a Unified Korea
Hyun Jin Preston Moon - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea is a powerful call to action for Koreans and supporters everywhere to achieve a new nation, rooted in a common past. In Korean Dream, Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon presents an innovative way forward for the Korean Peninsula that at its heart is Korean... |
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History and uncertain future of handwriting
Anne Trubek - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated... |
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Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy
David P. Barash - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation in the Western world. And yet, throughout history,... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
FRED KAPLAN - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race... |
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister - soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill... |
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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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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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The U.S. Army Cooks' Manual: Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking
NO AUTHOR - Casemate
Format: Hardcover
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An army marches on its stomach - so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army cooks to show how the U.S. Army fed and provisioned its troops in the early 20th century and lift the lid on what daily life must have been like both for those... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
Peter R Neumann - I.B. Tauris
Format: Print book
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The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism -- one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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Around Caroline
Patricia A. Brhel - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Nestled in the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, Caroline is a true community and always has been. In 1795, the first two families came with horses and settled in permanently. The founding mother, Widow Earsley, and her children returned to the cabin that she and her oldest... |
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