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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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The History of Argentina
Daniel K Lewis - Greenwood; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This second edition of The History of Argentina provides a broad overview of the country's cycles and changes with emphasis placed on the political and economic events that shaped the last five decades. Now updated to include additional information regarding recent developments in the Peronist... |
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Rembrandt Drawings
Seymour Slive - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Although the extensive literature on Rembrandt could fill a small library, there has been no up-to-date survey of his extraordinary achievement as a draftsman. Renowned Rembrandt scholar Seymour Slive fills this void with his scrutiny of some 150 drawings culled from a corpus of about eighthundred... |
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Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals
Michelle Mart - University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Format: eBook
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"A provocative cultural history of pesticides and their controversial use and depiction in the United States. Mart contends that--despite the sharp concerns raised by environmentalists and others since the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--Americans have not only never... |
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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Anthony DePalma - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma,... |
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Simon Hornblower - Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why according to ancient authors was Oedipus with swollen foot so called?For over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece... |
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Margalit Fox - Ecco; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When... |
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Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople
Richard Fidler - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." -- Simon WinchesterGhost Empire is a rare treasure -- an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated... |
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