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By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALS
Benjamin H. Milligan - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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How did the US Navy - the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans - ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world's most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles... |
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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
Kara Cooney - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs--Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa--to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future.... |
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
Susan Mattern - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern... |
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Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History
Michael R. Virgintino - Theme Park Press
Format: Paperback
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The Story of America's ParkAfter being fired by Walt Disney, the flamboyant C.V. Wood brought his hard-won experience as the self-titled "master builder of Disneyland" east, to a marsh in the Bronx, where in 1960 he unveiled his greatest project, a doomed theme park to tell... |
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Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Steven J Zipperstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian... |
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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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Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography
Finstad, Suzanne - BROADWAY BOOKS
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive biography of Natalie Wood, this is the haunting story of a vulnerable and talented actress whom many of us felt we knew. We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes--in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story,... |
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Craig Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people -- from the best-selling author of Londoners.In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic.... |
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters"
Kim Todd - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid social history that brings to light the "girl stunt reporters" of the Gilded Age who went undercover to expose corruption and abuse in America, and redefined what it meant to be a woman and a journalist - pioneers whose influence continues to be felt today.In the waning... |
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