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Vendor: Ned Blackhawk
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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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
The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world. From the International Women's Strike and Occupy, to #BlackLivesMatter and direct action against the climate emergency, a series of common questions have re-emerged as immediate and practical...- $41.99
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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...- $51.99
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs....- $41.99
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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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Vendor: Anna Shechtman
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest.The indisputable "queen of crosswords," Anna...- $41.99
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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...- $49.99
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Vendor: Gustavus Myers
History of the Great American Fortunes: Volume 1
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsHistory of the Great American Fortunes Volume One of Three Volumes by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1909.Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1909. It is in the public domain.Contents:...- $31.95
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Vendor: Lyz Lenz
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A mother of two, a Christian, and a lifelong resident of middle America, Lenz was bewildered by...- $36.99
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Vendor: David Colacci
19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam: A Memoir
Over 12,000 helicopters were used in the Vietnam War, which is why it became known as The Helicopter War. Almost half of the helicopters, 5,086, were lost. Helicopter pilots and crews accounted for nearly ten percent of all the U.S. casualties suffered in Vietnam,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Lis Wiehl
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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Vendor: Ralph H. Hruban
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science....- $41.99
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Vendor: John Stansifer
No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun
The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found...- $41.99
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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
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from...- $46.99
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Vendor: Aarathi Prasad
Silk: A World History
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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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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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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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Vendor: Billy Waugh
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
Author: David BaronISBN-10: 1665145188ISBN-13: 9781665145183Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d- $41.99
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Vendor: Otto Carius
Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
Author: Otto CariusISBN-10: 1665283548ISBN-13: 9781665283540Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2016Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $41.99
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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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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: 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: 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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