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Tailspin
World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. When...- $46.99
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a...- $67.99
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Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
America's suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today's suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past...- $29.95
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Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the...- $49.99
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In...- $41.99
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History of the Middle East
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Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past
What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve? Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning...- $41.99
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Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past
What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve? Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning...- $36.99
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long...- $41.99
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome...- $67.99
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The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the the Smithsonian Collection
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on...- $41.99
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I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
He is the law--and you better believe it! Judge, jury, and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD...- $51.99
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
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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
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria--an area some called China's...- $36.99
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Vendor: Stan Fisher
Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
The ability of the US Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the US victory over Japan in WWII. The naval war...- $41.99
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Vendor: Laura Robson
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: (Zones of Violence)
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The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
An account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers a look at Scottish identity and culture.Author: T. M. DevineISBN-10: 8874638809ISBN-13: 9798874638801Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Format: CD- $82.00
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The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
An account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers a look at Scottish identity and culture.Author: T. M. DevineISBN-10: 8874638817ISBN-13: 9798874638818Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Format: MP3 CD- $67.99
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers--including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker--this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest.Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a...- $39.99
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The Civil War: In Their Own Words
On the anniversary of the Gettysburg address Alison Larkin Presents announces a ground-breaking new audiobook commissioned specially for audio.Breathing new life into American history, Audie award-winning writer and director Anna Lyse Erikson uses the actual words of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo...- $25.99
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The Last American Frontier
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.From the Author's Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque...- $41.95
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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century--and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from...- $41.99
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The Last American Frontier
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.From the Author's Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque...- $31.95
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Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel-Winning Scientists Over the Origins of the Universe
Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and...- $41.99
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Vendor: Catherine Nixey
Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age ("[a] ballista-bolt of a book"--New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Christian traditions--and how they were killed off until just one "true" Christ...- $41.99
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Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme...- $39.99
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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with...- $39.99
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An Alternative History of Britain: Normans and Early Plantagenets
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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...- $46.99
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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,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Scott D. Seligman
Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria--an area some called China's...- $41.99
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Vendor: Stan Fisher
Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
The ability of the US Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the US victory over Japan in WWII. The naval war...- $41.99
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Vendor: Laura Robson
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: (Zones of Violence)
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Vendor: Michael Molcher
I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
He is the law--and you better believe it! Judge, jury, and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD...- $41.99
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors
Timothy Venning's series of alternative histories explores the pathways of British events from the Anglo-Saxon Age to the English Civil War. In this volume, he presents an in-depth analysis of the Tudor period. Venning discusses the fateful moments at which history could easily have...- $41.99
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Vendor: Beth Py-Lieberman
The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the the Smithsonian Collection
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on...- $46.99
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Islam & Blackness
The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law and spirituality, is antiblack It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that...- $46.99
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors
Timothy Venning's series of alternative histories explores the pathways of British events from the Anglo-Saxon Age to the English Civil War. In this volume, he presents an in-depth analysis of the Tudor period. Venning discusses the fateful moments at which history could easily have...- $46.99
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Vendor: Charles S. Oliviero
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
The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law and spirituality, is antiblack It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that...- $41.99
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Vendor: Fareed Zakaria
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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Vendor: Zoe Pagnamenta
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at...- $41.99
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Vendor: Christine Leuenberger
The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Chapters chart the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Izhak Schnell
The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Chapters chart the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Gaiutra Bahadur
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"--the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so...- $41.99
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Vendor: Timothy Venning
An Alternative History of Britain: Normans and Early Plantagenets
Continuing his exploration of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. He discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a...- $41.99
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Vendor: Lauren Benton
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours...- $46.99
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours...- $41.99
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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)
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history...- $57.99
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