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Quick Quilts with Rulers 18 easy quilts paterns for quick quilting.
Pam Lintott - F W Media
Format: eBook
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Quick and easy quilt patterns from best selling authors Pam and Nicky Lintott, who turn their attention to quilting with rulers in this fabulous collection of quilt patterns. Cut accurate shapes for quick piecing with these easy-to-follow step instructions and diagrams. Includes 18 stunning... |
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
DAVID FRYE - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey... |
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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
MARY HOLLINGSWORTH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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Blood Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1462-1485
Hugh Bicheno - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The concluding volume to this rousing two-part history of the Wars of the Roses, England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated by a master historian. England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry VI languishes... |
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Michael Javen Fortner - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americansfar in excess of their representation in the population as a whole.... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born,... |
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Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Perry D. Jamieson - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union... |
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Inventors in Monmouth County, New Jersey : United states Patent Office
George Joynson - Heritage Books
Format: Print book
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An inventor is a person who gets an idea and acts upon it. Are you curious, creative, determined and a doer? You may be an inventor too! In this book, Joynson looks at the lives of the inventors of Monmouth County, New Jersey. It didn't take very long for a Monmouth County resident to get in on the US Patent... |
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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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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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Maine Cemeteries, Vol. 1
Penny Westfall-Lake - Heritage Books Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Genealogical researchers of Maine families will want to add this volume to their library. This volume concentrates on the historical cemeteries of Falmouth and Yarmouth and is comprised of over eleven thousand names. Although the majority of the readings |
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Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi
Kenneth R. Timmerman - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened - and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Format: Print book
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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War and Peace: The Epic Masterpiece in One Sitting
Joelle Herr - Running Press
Format: eBook
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One of the most important works of world literature, War and Peace details the events surrounding Napoleon's French invasion of Russia as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Undeniably epic in scale, Tolstoy's masterpiece has intimidated readers since it was published... |
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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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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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
Peter Brown - Harvard University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Romes fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Churchs... |
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
John A Nagy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary... |
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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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Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
Robert Coram - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia used dogged determination to achieve his dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia... |
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Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship
C. Michael Hiam - ForeEdge
Format: Digital
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Here is the story of airships - manmade flying machines without wings - from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately... |
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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Dave Barry - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry... |
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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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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to e-book
Roderick Cave - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A study of books through history is a study of human history. In The History of the Book in 100 Books, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -- literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion,... |
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Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
Reese Erlich - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better... |
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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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The evangelical origins of the living constitution
John W Compton - Harvard University Press
Format: eBook
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Main Description:The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision... |
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais - Verso
Format: Print book
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
Charles Fountain - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein.... |
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,... |
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal... |
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People of Dublin, 1600-1799
David Dobson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback
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This genealogical source book by David Dobson identifies some of the inhabitants of Dublin between 1600 and 1800 who would otherwise be difficult to situate. It is based on primary sources found in Great Britain and Ireland as well as across the Atlantic. The sources include the Huguenot... |
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Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
ShiÌ?riÌ?n Ê»IbaÌ?diÌ? - Random House
Format: Print book
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The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government... |
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Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I: Introduction and A-C
Frederic Gomes Cassidy - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This series captures the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865
Nathan A Jennings - University of North Texas Press
Format: Print book
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The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted to mounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric arena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial... |
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Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
Laura Silver - Brandeis
Format: Hardcover
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When Laura Silver’s favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish.The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs.... |
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
Zephyr Teachout - Harvard Univ Press
Format: Audiobook
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological... |
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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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A Guide to Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors
Helen Meehan - Flyleaf Press
Format: Print book
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Donegal families are an interesting mix of native Irish familes and of the Scots-Irish who came to the county from the 17th century onward. It is one of the Irish counties which have experienced a high level of emigration to North America, Scotland, and North of England. This new and greatly... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf - New York Univ. Press
Format: Hardcover
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Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves... |
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Laura Spinney - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.The Spanish flu of 1918-1920... |
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe... |
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Armchair warriors private citizens, popular press, and the rise of American power
Joel R Davidson - Naval Institute Press
Format: eBook
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This book is a history of public information and personal ideas about war and the military over the last century. It examines the interplay between popular media coverage of the nation's wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues. Davidson studied Americans... |
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Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution
Bill Mullen - Temple University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Un-American is Bill Mullen's revisionist account of renowned author and activist W.E.B. Du Bois's political thought toward the end of his life, a period largely dismissed and neglected by scholars. He describes Du Bois's support for what the Communist International called "world... |
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Antisemitism and the constitution of sociology
Marcel Stoetzler - University of Nebraska Press
Format: eBook
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"Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but--antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding--also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often perceived... |
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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement... |
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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Combat Talons in Vietnam: Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew
John Gargus
Format: Hardcover
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Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider's view of crew training and classified missions for this technologically advanced aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were successful, but one night, John... |
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Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language
Rosemarie Ostler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate... |
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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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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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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
Sarah Jaffe - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social... |
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Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds
Todd Cleveland - Ohio University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Africa supplies the majority of the world’s diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable... |
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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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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
Harold Holzer - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Print book
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In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating... |
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Kentucky Confederates : Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase
Berry Craig
Format: eBook
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During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase -- bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River... |
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political,... |
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
D Stevenson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows... |
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money... |
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Clarke County, Virginia, Register of Births, 1853-1896
Marty Hiatt - Heritage Books
Format: Print book
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Clarke County has over 5,800 entries of births for slaves and free children. Entries typically include the full name of the child, race, date of birth, place of birth, given names of parents, occupation of father, county of residence, informant, and page number in the register. During the 1930s,... |
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Jerry Brotton - Viking
Format: Print book
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The gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's bold alliance with the Ottoman sultan by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsPublished in the UK as This Orient IsleLong before the Barbary Pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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The Book of Texas Days
Ron Stone - Shearer Pub; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Presents at least one event, anecdote, or item of information for each day of the year, covering the full 150-plus-year range of Texas history. |
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The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
Roger Moorhouse - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflicts entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin... |
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The Politics Book
DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more The Politics Book clearly and simply... |
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The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
JOHN REEVES - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a "model to men who would be morally great." Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as "one of a small company of great... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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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 Wright Company: From Invention to Industry
Edward J Roach - Ohio University Press
Format: eBook
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Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA - Liveright
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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Bourbon Street: A History
Richard Campanella - Louisiana State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a year. A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street,... |
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Toxic airs : body, place, planet in historical perspective
James Rodger Fleming - University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: eBook
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"Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues at a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats... |
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Somme: Into the Breach
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign -- victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian... |
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Pulaski County, Kentucky Court Orders, 1804-1810.
Karen Wagner Tracey - Southern Historical Press
Format: Print book
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This Never Before published book makes for a great research tool for those persons researching in Kentucky. Pulaski County was created in 1799 from Lincoln and Green Counties. It importance to genealogy is in the fact that it sits in what is called the Cumberland Gap. This area saw a large... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Bench and Bar of Montgomery County Maryland: Early Lawyers of Montgomery County
Jane C Sween - Heritage Books, Inc
Format: Paperback
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Montgomery History Library contains information on men who practiced law in Montgomery County from colonial times until 1900. This volume is not just a list of those who practiced law; it is basically a biographical work of each of those men. Most listings contain vital records--birth,... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity... |
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Alex Von Tunzelmann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under... |
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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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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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Marriages of Early Edgecombe County, North Carolina 1733-1868.
Margarette Glenn Griffin - Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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By: Ruth S. Williams, Pub. 1958, Reprinted 2018, 336 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-946-X.Edgecombe County was created in 1732 from Bertie County.This book is broken up into two parts. The first part are marriages from the Marriage Bond Book 1732-1867. While the second part includes:... |
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Rebecca Goldstein - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy,... |
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Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation
Emily West - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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More than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context... |
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1947: Where Now Begins
Elisabeth Åsbrink - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history.The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats... |
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Barron's AP European History, 9th Edition: with Bonus Online Tests
SETH ROBERTS - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Fully updated to reflect the new exam and scoring guidelines, this in-depth preparation for the AP European History exam features:Two full-length model AP exams with all questions answered and explainedA comprehensive review of European history, starting with Europe during the Italian Renaissance... |
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"A modern feminist classic." -- The GuardianFrom the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack... |
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Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis: Volume 1
EDA Collective - Zero Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analyzed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces... |
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More Than Hot
Christopher Hamlin - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: eBook
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Christopher Hamlin's magisterial work engages a common experience - fever - in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression... |
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Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great
Richard A. Billows - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of Marathon, an enlightening look at the historical context behind Alexander the Great, his accomplishments, and his legacyIn the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe.... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba
Julia Cooke - Seal Press
Format: eBook
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Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in clich, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists... |
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At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45
Christian Jennings - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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In the autumn of 1944, as Patton's army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task -- break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications... |
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Personal name index to the Augusta chronicle
Alice O Walker
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Georgia & South Carolina Genealogy. Events in this Index: Executor's sale, Notice of administration or other document relating to probate of an estate, Obituary (usually in the form of a death notice) , Marriage, Other |
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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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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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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Dell
Format: Paperback
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This "bold... extraordinary... blockbuster... " (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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Unbreakable: The 25 Most Unapproachable Records in Baseball
James R Baehler - Sports Publishing
Format: eBook
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Unbreakable gives fans the fascinating stories behind incredible records and the players who made them and provides a basis for comparing players of the Deadball era with those of today. Most importantly, it gives the true baseball fan quantitative objective data to bring to arguments about... |
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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria
RANIA ABOUZEID - W. W. Norton & Company
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Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos... |
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Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia
Stewart Sifakis - Facts on File
Format: Book
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This volume is part of a multi-volume work, organized by state. The first nine volumes are devoted to the regional histories of Alabama, Arkansas and Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. The tenth volume covers the border... |
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
Clay Risen - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill,... |
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world.On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab... |
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Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
Laura Silver - Brandeis
Format: eBook
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When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs. Stahl's... |
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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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Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit
Peter Hecht - University of California Press,
Format: Paperback
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Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine,... |
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Making a Match : Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society
Ann Jennalie Cook - Princeton University Press
Format: eBook
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Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command either a casual reference or a central position in the action, but no play escapes a connection... |
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Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919?1945
JULIA BOYD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices -- even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett -- into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what's... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
R J Overy - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... |
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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Michael C. C. Adams - Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot - Broadside
Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second termuntil televised... |
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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While F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the ferocious energy of the 1920s, as this illuminating cultural history brilliantly demonstrates. In four wordsthe capital of everythingDuke Ellington captured Manhattan during... |
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