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Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China
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Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: (Zones of Violence)
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I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
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An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors
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The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the the Smithsonian Collection
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Islam & Blackness
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An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors
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PRAXIS Tacticum: The Art, Science and Practice of Military Tactics
Pundits have long predicted the end of conventional warfare but for the foreseeable future, it is here to stay. Counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, peace enforcement, policing. All these forms, like conventional warfare, are as old as mankind. Modern militaries claim to be professional bodies,...- $46.99
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Islam & Blackness
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live. Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the 21st century...- $44.99
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
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The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: Normans and Early Plantagenets
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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American Negra: A Memoir
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Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation
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Vendor: Gaiutra Bahadur
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
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The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
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History of the Great American Fortunes: Volume 1
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God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
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Vendor: David Colacci
19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam: A Memoir
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, Dna, and More Tell Us about Crime
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A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―america's Most Damaging Russian Spy
A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the worst intelligence disaster in US history: the case of Robert Hanssen--a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades.As a federal prosecutor and...- $41.95
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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
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No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun
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Vendor: Joe Kraus
The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago's Jewish Gangsters
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Vendor: Natasha S. Alford
American Negra: A Memoir
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Vendor: Aarathi Prasad
Silk: A World History
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for AprilIn a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which...- $45.95
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Vendor: Edward F. O'Keefe
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives.Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to...- $49.99
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Vendor: Graeme Davis
Vikings in America
When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking work by the...- $41.99
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Vikings in America
When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking work by the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. #1 New York Times Bestseller The perfect gift for Mother's Day and Father's...- $49.99
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting--a riveting history that reads like a thriller.On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into...- $55.99
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Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
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Vendor: David Baron
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
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Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
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Vendor: Christa Lewis
The Escape Line Lib/E: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
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Vendor: Michael Burlingame
An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd. Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Christian N. Vannier
Spirit Service: Vod佖 and Vodou in the African Atlantic World
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as Vod佖, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and globalization. Spirit...- $41.99
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Vendor: Carol Kino
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
A riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins--identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 40s--for fans of Ninth Street Women and The Barbizon. The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in...- $39.99
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