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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
LEONIE FRIEDA - Harper
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The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch - Francis I - who turned France into a great nation.Catherine de Medici's father-in-law,... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... |
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Versailles
Colin Jones - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of VersaillesNothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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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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Seven Keys to Modern Art
Simon Morley - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A liberating approach to interpreting modern and contemporary art, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world and representing a diversity of styles, mediums, and artists.With modern art's proclivity for self-expression, originality, and the abstract, great works can often... |
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Moonshine: A Cultural History of America's Infamous Liquor
Jaime Joyce - Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover
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Nothing but clear, 100-proof American history.Hooch. White lightning. White whiskey. Mountain dew. Moonshine goes by many names. So what is it, really Technically speaking, moonshine refers to untaxed liquor made in an unlicensed still. In the United States, its typically corn thats used... |
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
John Sweeney - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and, at times, frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean society. North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning... |
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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 Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Kenneth C. Davis - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine) , Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold... |
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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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Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Matthew Cobb - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code,... |
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Gretchen Anna Bakke - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history.Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
ROY ADKINS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France - an overlooked key to the British loss in the American RevolutionFor more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded,... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History
DK. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions,... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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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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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebecca Erbelding - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the War Refugee Board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the war to save... |
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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The King's Revenge Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Don Jordan - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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When Charles I was executed, his sonCharles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggestmanhunt Britain had ever seen, one that wouldspan Europe and America and wouldlast for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors... |
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A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers
John Zukowsky - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh take on the history of architecture, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections between society, engineering, and design.Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas -- essentially,... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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Sugar
James Walvin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating... |
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Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation
J D Dickey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian sheds new light on Sherman's epic "March to the Sea," especially the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians who would change the nation for the better. America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan... |
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World: Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalicini, Chien-Shiung Wu, Virginia Apgar, and More
Catherine Whitlock - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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From two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie to physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and obstetrical anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, M.D., this book celebrates the lives and hard-earned accomplishments of ten women from around the world who forever changed astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine,... |
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The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend
Glenn Stout - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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The complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sports. The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing the fortunes of two of baseball's most storied... |
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The Diary of Johannes Hansen: Expedition to Eastern Greenland: 1884-1885
Hansêraq - International Polar Institute Press
Format: Print book
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The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm's well-known umiaq expedition to the east coast of Greenland (1884-1885) , which passed the winter in Angmagssalik and discovered eleven Inuit communities. His diary is a series... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun,... |
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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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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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Mexicans in the Making of America
Neil Foley - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading... |
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Hannibal
Patrick Hunt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world.... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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British Town Maps
R J P Kain - British Library
Format: Print book
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Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers' ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they strove to represent and communicate the physical patterns of streets, buildings, and spaces; the "above ground"... |
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Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Jimmy Blackmon - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since... |
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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 Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories -- when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap... |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully... |
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Better Off Dead: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Canadian Armed Forces
Fred Doucette - Nimbus Publishing
Format: Print book
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Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and '80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was diagnosed with severe chronic post-traumatic... |
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THE HISTORY OF THE DECATUR, ILLINOIS POLICE DEPARTMENT VOLUME 1: 1856 - 1899
Mark D Barthelemy - Lulu.com
Format: Paperback
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This book chronicles the history of policing in a middle-sized city in the Midwestern United States from the mid-1800s through the end of the 19th century. It takes readers along with the police officers as they walk their beats and face the dangers and perils of protecting the community,... |
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Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Vybarr Cregan-Reid - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals
Aaron Mahnke - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now a streaming television series Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood:... |
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The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science
Adrian Tinniswood - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought
Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published... |
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Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine
Steve Jones - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin's Ghost. Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry... |
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
J. W. Ocker - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback
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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of Americas spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history -- the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- transformed it into... |
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marc Raboy - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrck, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods... |
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Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
SCOTT A HUESING - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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"In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." - Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company CommanderFrom the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment... |
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Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers Adventures in Nineteenth Century America
Daniel Blake Smith - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,... |
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George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation
T H Breen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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This is George Washington in the surprising role of political strategist.T.H. Breen introduces us to a George Washington we rarely meet. During his first term as president, he decided that the only way to fulfill the Revolution was to take the new federal government directly to the people.... |
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The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against the Roman Empire
Stephen Kershaw PhD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and vivid narrative history of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the "barbarian" enemies of Rome. History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J Bacevich - Random House
Format: Print book
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Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while... |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded... |
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Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more... |
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
JIM DEFELICE - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK," hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement."... |
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Lord of All the Dead: A nonfiction novel
Javier Cercas - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write.Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend... |
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The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
AARON MAHNKE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, from the host of the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series.They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken... |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition
Colin Burgess - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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Near the end of the "Apollo 15" mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called "The Fallen Astronaut, " along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling... |
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The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers
Craig Harrison sniper - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan,... |
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RAF: The Birth of the World's First Air Force
RICHARD OVERY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A great historian's masterful account of the origins of air power in the RAF.The birth of the Royal Air Force during World War I marked a pivotal moment in modern military and political history. With Europe's western front frozen in a bloody stalemate of trench warfare, both sides sought... |
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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Devon A Mihesuah - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud... |
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The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Jeremy Dronfield - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They... |
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The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
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Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel
Christopher Hull PhD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Exploring the backstory that led to the writing of Graham Greene's beloved satirical spy novel, Our Man Down in Havana evokes this pivotal time and place in the author's life. When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned... |
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Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World
Beth Skwarecki - Adams Media
Format: Print book
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From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:The... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British... |
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Engineering Victory: The Union Siege of Vicksburg
Justin S. Solonick - Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered... |
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Drawing
Christopher Lloyd - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented volume featuring over two hundred drawings by twenty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists.Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history... |
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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
Max Adams - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice
Elliott Goldberg - Inner Traditions
Format: Print book
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A history of yoga's transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice * Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India's response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century * Examines yoga's transformations... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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A Place Called Appomattox
William Marvel - Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Format: Print book
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Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that... |
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Bathsheba Demuth - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Nature, NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. "A monument to a people and their land ... an allegory of the world we have created." -- Sven Beckert,... |
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best... |
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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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Napoleon: A Life
Adam Zamoyski - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,... |
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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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The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg
Michael Weeks - The Countryman Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The definitive guidebook for Civil War tourists, from the novice historian to the die-hard buff For those who can't resist trying to see it all, this indispensable book contains information on and reviews of almost 450 historical sites across the United States related to the Civil War,... |
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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
Arthur Herman - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilsons entry into World War I and Lenins Bolshevik Revolution.In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation, advocate for free trade... |
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Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey
HERMAN HESSE - Shambhala
Format: Paperback
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Hermann Hesse's voyage to the East Indies, recorded in journal entries and other writings translated into English for the first time, describes the experiences that influenced his greatest works. "I knew but few of the trees and animals that I saw around me by name, I was unable... |
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century... |
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The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Gay Talese - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United... |
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Gail Collins - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist."You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship... |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Stephanie Elizondo Griest - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel... |
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Southbound: An Illustrated History of Southern Rock
Scott B Bomar - Backbeat
Format: Book
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Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were rooted in the distinctive regional traditions of country, blues, and R&B. As the impact of the British Invasion and the psychedelic era faded... |
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
James Traub - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise, yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
CLARE MULLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make... |
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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago
William Elliott Hazelgrove - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s,... |
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Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion
EDWARD G LENGEL - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most heroic and incredible story in American military history--World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingeredThe most dramatic week in American military history took place just weeks before the First... |
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Ballparks Then and Now
Eric Enders - Thunder Bay Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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See how much America's favorite pastime has changed - and how much it's stayed the same - in Ballparks Then and Now. Crammed with history and facts, this unique city-by-city tour of America's hallowed playing fields pairs archival images with modern photos of baseball's... |
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The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them
Chris DeRose - Lyons Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that Americas economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... |
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