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Vendor: Bill DeYoung
Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise...- $36.99
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Vendor: Robert K. D. Colby
An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of...- $49.99
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Vendor: Nathan N. Prefer
The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns
The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war,...- $45.95
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The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America'
From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forcesThe Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that...- $49.99
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The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns
The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war,...- $55.99
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Vendor: Robert K. D. Colby
An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of...- $45.95
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Vendor: Arthur Waley
Zen Buddhism and Its Relation to Art
In this entertaining pamphlet, the author, who was an expert on the artistic traditions of China and Japan, examines the effect of Zen Buddhism on popular culture. He provides a perceptive thumbnail view of the development of Buddhism in the Far East, and engaging...- $21.95
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Vendor: Marvin Olasky
Moral Vision: Leadership from George Washington to Joe Biden
What makes a leader truly great? Is it simply a matter of management style and personality? Or is it character that matters most? Moral Visions takes an insightful look into America's leaders of the past to answer these questions and demonstrates that values and...- $44.99
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Vendor: Jason Bell
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy
The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution.In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman.As an MI6...- $39.99
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Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans
"Smart, patriotic, and readable, this book is what our cynical culture needs." -- Pete Hegseth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Battle for the American MindAmerica is full of inspiring heroes.Greatness is not a chance--it is a choice. George Washington didn't simply wake...- $39.99
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Vendor: Cheryl Mendelson
Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite
From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the story of our wedding vows--what they mean and why they still matter.In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it's a surprise...- $29.99
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Vendor: Craig Whitlock
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the US Navy
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock's masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history--exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of at least $50 million, and jeopardized...- $39.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Beller
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted.A quarter of a century after the...- $44.99
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Vendor: Susan L. Shirk
China: Fragile Superpower
Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think--and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will...- $51.99
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Vendor: Philip Matyszak
Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation
This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths. The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And...- $36.99
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Vendor: Tom Holland
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by the Columbia University Press, New York.Author: Tom HollandISBN-13: 9798200017027Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 5.60h x 6.10w x 1.90d- $57.99
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Vendor: Margot Mifflin
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
Author: Margot MifflinISBN-10: 1799985970ISBN-13: 9781799985976Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.90w x 0.60d- $36.99
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Vendor: John Oller
The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
Author: John OllerISBN-10: 1799979466ISBN-13: 9781799979463Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2016Format: CD- $41.99
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Vendor: Peter H. Wilson
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
Author: Peter H. WilsonISBN-10: 1665289392ISBN-13: 9781665289399Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $67.99
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Tigers in the Mud Lib/E: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
Author: Otto CariusISBN-10: 1665283521ISBN-13: 9781665283526Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2016Format: CD- $71.99
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Vendor: David M. Glantz
Stalingrad
Author: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. HouseISBN-10: 1665248327ISBN-13: 9781665248327Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $57.99
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Vendor: Lydia Kang
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Author: Lydia Kang, Nate PedersenISBN-10: 1665226382ISBN-13: 9781665226387Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: CD- $46.99
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Vendor: Adam Hochschild
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Author: Adam HochschildISBN-10: 1665240695ISBN-13: 9781665240697Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 1.10d- $51.99
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Vendor: David Weston Marshall
Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
Author: David Weston MarshallISBN-10: 1665135212ISBN-13: 9781665135214Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $41.99
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Vendor: Ben H. Shepherd
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich
Author: Ben H. ShepherdISBN-10: 1665236884ISBN-13: 9781665236881Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 5.60h x 6.10w x 1.90d- $77.00
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Vendor: Joe Barrett
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Author: Joe Barrett, Michael GorraISBN-10: 1665115696ISBN-13: 9781665115698Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2020Format: CD- $51.99
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Vendor: Will Durant
The Lessons of History: The Most Important Insights from the Story of Civilization
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Charles R. Morris
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most...- $34.95
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Vendor: Matt Jamie
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's book, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Stephen Walsh
The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
When one thinks of "great" classical music, we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how...- $55.99
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The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
When one thinks of "great" classical music, we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how...- $45.95
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Vendor: Patrick Olivelle
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but...- $45.95
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Vendor: Patrick Olivelle
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but...- $49.99
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Vendor: Steven Conn
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't
A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it...- $41.99
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Vendor: Edward N. Luttwak
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third, Revised and Updated Edition
At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Edward N. Luttwak
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third, Revised and Updated Edition
At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to...- $46.99
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Vendor: Patrick Joyce
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time."What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the...- $44.99
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Vendor: Caroline Crampton
A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.Caroline Crampton's life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of...- $45.95
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Vendor: Gideon Aran
The Smile of the Human Bomb: New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism
In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world.In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb...- $34.95
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Vendor: Dylan C. Penningroth
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't...- $46.99
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Vendor: Dylan C. Penningroth
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't...- $41.99
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Vendor: Matthew Stewart
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the...- $41.99
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Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian...- $41.99
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Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian...- $36.99
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Vendor: Guru Madhavan
Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World
Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects--often...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Goyes
Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo
Inhabitants of Medell?, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and suffered psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational media companies...- $36.99
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Vendor: David Daokui Li
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
Writing in response to the growing anti-Chinese sentiment and alarmed by the threat of war, Dr. David Daokui Li pulls from his wealth of firsthand experience to demystify contemporary Chinese society and advocate for understanding between China and the West. In this urgently needed...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Daokui Li
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
Writing in response to the growing anti-Chinese sentiment and alarmed by the threat of war, Dr. David Daokui Li pulls from his wealth of firsthand experience to demystify contemporary Chinese society and advocate for understanding between China and the West. In this urgently needed...- $41.99
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War
With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out...- $49.99
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War
With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out...- $45.95
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