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Pittsburgh's Historic Ballparks (Images of Baseball)
Mark Fatla - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Pittsburgh has an incredible baseball history with great players, teams, and historic moments, but few realize that Pittsburgh has often been in the lead in ballpark design and development. Photographs chronicle the nine ballparks that hosted major league baseball in Pittsburgh between... |
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Remember the Ramrods: My Army Brotherhood in War and Peace
DAVID BELLAVIA - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary re-envisioning of the scope and ambitions of the contemporary military memoir: the Iraq War's only living Medal of Honor recipient examines the bonds and wounds of war across two decades.After fourteen years apart, forty veterans of brutal close-quarters combat, lost... |
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Poetics of Relation
Edouard Glissant - University of Michigan Press
Format: Paperback
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Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned... |
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Washington on Foot, Sixth Edition Revised and Expanded
William Bonstra - Smithsonian Books
Format: Paperback
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An essential walking tour guide to one of the most walkable and historic cities in the US, perfect for first-time visitors and longtime residents alike. This updated 6th edition of the perennial favorite Washington on Foot features 24 user-friendly maps, including new content on the Wharf,... |
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Vaclav Smil - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity - and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author - a favorite... |
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
David Gwyn - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution - one that would truly change the world. In this... |
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The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Paul Conrad - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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Across four centuries, Apache (Nd) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected... |
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand... |
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Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989
Moscow Design Museum - Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating glimpse into design behind the Iron Curtain, revealed through the products and graphics of everyday Soviet life. This captivating survey of Soviet design from 1950 to 1989 features more than 350 items from the Moscow Design Museum's unique collection. From children's... |
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