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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...- $49.99
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Vendor: Romain Rolland
Beethoven
Amongst all the figures in the history of Western art forms, Beethoven is one of the most radical and influential. Not only did he produce some of the most celebrated and recognizable music of all time, but his influence dramatically accelerated the development of...- $21.95
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Vendor: Abra Lee
Conquer the Soil: Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country's Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers
Conquer the Soil profiles 45 hidden figures of horticulture--the Black men and women whose accomplished careers in the plant world are little known or untold. Among them are Wormley Hughes, an enslaved African-American who was head gardener at Monticello and dug Jefferson's grave; Annie...- $41.99
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Vendor: Monika Muranyi
The Women of Lemuria: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Is it possible that a place called Lemuria existed? What about the missing continent of MU? What does being a Lemurian actually mean for you today? The answer to these questions and more is revealed in this book. Australian author, Monika Muranyi, has compiled...- $41.99
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Vendor: John Antal
7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war--the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. The second Nagorno-Karabakh war--fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020--was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. This...- $36.99
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Vendor: Michael Scott-Baumann
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced listen. The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter...- $36.99
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Vendor: Ronald Drabkin
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars--who flipped to become a spy for Japan in...- $41.99
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Vendor: MIM Eichler Rivas
Beautiful Jim Key Lib/E: The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse
The horse Jim was known as Beautiful Jim Key from the moment he stepped into the American spotlight in 1897 at age eight until his death in 1912. This horse was beloved for his remarkable intelligence, cultivated by human kindness and patience. Proclaimed a...- $100.00
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Vendor: Bruce Catton
This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War
The classic one-volume history of the American Civil War by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton. Covering events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln, Catton blends a gripping narrative with deep, yet unassuming, scholarship to bring the war alive in...- $57.99
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Vendor: Jd Jackson
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and...- $41.99
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Vendor: James P. Duffy
War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
Author: James P. DuffyISBN-10: 8200007960ISBN-13: 9798200007967Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 1.10d- $51.99
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Vendor: Nathan Thrall
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Author: Nathan ThrallISBN-10: 1665270314ISBN-13: 9781665270311Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $41.99
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Vendor: James Cameron Stewart
Russia: The Story of War
Author: James Cameron Stewart, Gregory CarletonISBN-10: 1665262478ISBN-13: 9781665262477Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 1.18d- $46.99
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Vendor: Robin Kelley
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Author: Robin Kelley, Robin Dg KelleyISBN-10: 1665252723ISBN-13: 9781665252720Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.06w x 1.81d- $77.00
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Vendor: Amy Stewart
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Author: Amy StewartISBN-10: 1665159421ISBN-13: 9781665159425Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.55d- $41.99
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Vendor: Richard J. Evans
The Pursuit of Power: Europe: 1815-1914
Author: Richard J. EvansISBN-10: 1665148187ISBN-13: 9781665148184Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2016Format: CDWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.06w x 3.70d- $82.00
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Vendor: Mary V. Dearborn
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Author: Mary V. DearbornISBN-10: 1665145609ISBN-13: 9781665145602Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2017Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.06w x 1.89d- $77.00
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Vendor: Christopher Andrew
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
Based on unprecedented access to a secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the...- $49.95
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Vendor: Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it's a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. The year...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marcus Hunter
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond the current debate over this controversial issue.For over a century,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Paul Scharre
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry--the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives--and cause profound disruptions in the balance...- $51.99
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Vendor: Romano Guardini
The End of the Modern World: With Power and Responsibility
Two monumental works on the nature of the modern age by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century. This expanded edition of The End of the Modern World: A Search for Orientation includes its sequel, Power and Responsibility:...- $19.99
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Vendor: Therese Oneill
Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren't attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until now, from New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill.Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The 19th- and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Chris Christie
What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President
With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president?A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie...- $39.99
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Vendor: Scott Howard-Cooper
Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty
In the tradition of Blood in the Garden and Three-Ring Circus comes a bold narrative history of the iconic UCLA Bruins championship teams led by legendary coach John Wooden--an incredible true story about the messy, never-easy pursuit of perfection set against the turmoil of...- $44.99
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Vendor: Christopher C. Gorham
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
Though Anna Rosenberg emerged from modest immigrant beginnings, equipped with only a high school education, she was the real power behind national policies critical to America winning the war and prospering afterwards. Astonishingly, her story remains largely forgotten.With a disarming mix of charm and...- $51.99
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
Colonial Dames and Good Wives
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.Audio copyright 2023Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is...- $36.95
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
Colonial Dames and Good Wives
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.Audio copyright 2023Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is...- $31.95
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Vendor: Sun Tzu
The Art of War Lib/E: Original Classic Edition
Author: Sun TzuISBN-10: 8200561542ISBN-13: 9798200561544Publisher: Gildan Media CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 6.69h x 6.14w x 0.71d- $66.99
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Vendor: John Toland
The Flying Tigers
During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers--who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and...- $19.95
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Vendor: Kim Phillips-Fein
Invisible Hands Lib/E: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
Author: Kim Phillips-FeinISBN-10: 820012519XISBN-13: 9798200125197Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2009Format: CDWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 6.69h x 6.06w x 1.10d- $71.99
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Vendor: Ian Kershaw
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic...- $22.99
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Vendor: Lawrence Freedman
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy: New, Updated and Completely Revised
First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on...- $57.99
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Vendor: Margaret K. Nelson
Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s
All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays a lesbian partnership, a "bastard" son, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K....- $41.99
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Vendor: Neil Douglas-Klotz
Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life and Death
This book is an approach to Jesus's recorded words and teachings through his native language, Aramaic, answering many questions clearly and consistently, even if unexpectedly, no matter which Gospel you have in your hands. From the Introduction: "Jesus's teachings have been used historically to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling...- $24.99
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Vendor: Patricia Brady
Martha Washington Lib/E: An American Life
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the...- $71.99
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Vendor: Alan M. Dershowitz
The Case for Israel
Author: Alan M. DershowitzISBN-10: 1982586753ISBN-13: 9781982586751Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.55d- $41.99
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Vendor: Janet &. Geoff Benge
Klaus-Dieter John Audiobook: Hope in the Land of the Incas
Klaus-Dieter John dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took -- study in top universities and practice surgery in remote and dangerous places -- to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed...- $21.99
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Vendor: Bart D. Ehrman
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one...- $44.99
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Vendor: Summer Brennan
The Parisian Sphinx: A True Story of Art and Obsession
A gripping art history cold case: the previously untold story of Victorine Meurent, forgotten painter and famous muse to artists from Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec, and the modern search for her lost paintingsWhen former art student and journalist Summer Brennan learned that ノdouard Manet's favorite...- $41.95
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Vendor: James Hawes
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit--A Retelling for Our Times
England--begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor--is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever...- $41.99
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Vendor: Melissa L. Sevigny
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as...- $46.99
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Vendor: James Heneage
The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity
Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers--the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what of Epaminondas, the Theban general who saved the Greek world from Spartan tyranny? Alexander the...- $36.99
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Vendor: David Baker
The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us
A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest-possible time span--from the Big Bang to the present day--in an astonishingly concise retelling. His impressive...- $41.99
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Vendor: Walter Lord
Day of Infamy Lib/E
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on...- $48.00
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Vendor: Colin Woodard
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent...- $41.99
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Vendor: Peter H. Wilson
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking...- $67.99
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Vendor: Lawrence Scanlan
The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse
Author: Lawrence ScanlanISBN-10: 1665260297ISBN-13: 9781665260299Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.55d- $41.99
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