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Vendor: David Wood
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's modern wars.Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far...- $35.00
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Vendor: Gary Stein
Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham
The never-before-told story of Martin T. Manton, a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. From his misconduct, to his co-conspirators, to the sensational prosecution and trial, this is the exhaustively researched account of...- $46.95
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Vendor: Vaclav Smil
Size: How It Explains the World
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about...- $41.99
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Vendor: Dan Schreiber
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber.Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited...- $41.99
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Vendor: Prudence Peiffer
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip...- $46.99
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Vendor: H. Luke Shaefer
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Marcia Bartusiak
The Day We Found the Universe Lib/E
From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it...- $71.99
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Vendor: Robert Tombs
The English and Their History
Author: Robert TombsISBN-10: 1799987957ISBN-13: 9781799987956Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.60lbs- $82.00
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Vendor: Eduardo Kohn
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Author: Eduardo KohnISBN-10: 1665250712ISBN-13: 9781665250719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Harold G. Moore
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Author: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. GallowayISBN-10: 1665231858ISBN-13: 9781665231855Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs- $57.99
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Vendor: Janet Benge
Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language (Audiobook)
During WWI, Cameron Townsend (1896-1982) was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the...- $21.99
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Vendor: Stanley G. Payne
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne (history, U. of Wisconsin) describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He...- $44.95
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Vendor: Garrett M. Graff
UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There
From New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Watergate comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe?From the post-war Project Blue...- $65.99
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Vendor: Dan Schreiber
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber.Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited...- $41.99
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Vendor: Alex Rosenberg
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of...- $29.99
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Vendor: Kate Fagan
Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game
HOOP MUSES is an homage to the game, bringing style and flair to all the details, moments, and people who have shaped the collective world of (women's) hoops. HOOP MUSES will take us through time - literally. We begin in the future, in 2072,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Craig McNamara
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
An unforgettable father and son story that confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations.Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his...- $45.00
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Vendor: Dennis Prager
The Rational Bible: Genesis
USA Today bestsellerPublishers Weekly bestsellerWall Street Journal bestsellerMany people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral.This explanation of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, demonstrates clearly...- $49.99
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Vendor: Benjamin Cunningham
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely--and they were both convinced...- $45.00
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Vendor: Stacy Schiff
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel...- $45.00
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Vendor: Thomas Maier
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever--with CIA agents,...- $24.99
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Vendor: David Whitehouse
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Dennis Prager
The Rational Bible: Genesis
USA Today bestsellerPublishers Weekly bestsellerWall Street Journal bestsellerMany people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral.This explanation of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, demonstrates clearly...- $79.97
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Vendor: Thomas Maier
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever--with CIA agents,...- $35.99
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Vendor: Anne Harrington
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in...- $29.99
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Vendor: Veronica Chambers
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles--along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword--will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right.You may only be one person, but you...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ilan Evyatar
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination - And Secret Diplomacy - To Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a
The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar--and diplomacy--to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons, in the process forging a new Middle East by uniting with Sunni Arab nations to stop their common enemy.Authors Bob and Evyatar describe how Israel has used...- $39.99
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Vendor: Johnny Joey Jones
Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship
Life only really starts when we start serving others.For many people, military service isn't simply a job. It's a ticket out of a lonely society and into a family of enduring bonds. In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has...- $41.99
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Vendor: Charlotte Gray
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century--by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome...- $49.99
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Vendor: Molly Guptill Manning
The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship,...- $36.95
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Vendor: G. N. Devy
Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation
In India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination.The sheer volume of commentaries on the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Buddy Levy
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Author: Buddy LevyISBN-10: 1665237090ISBN-13: 9781665237093Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Cassandra Good
First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America
Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington...- $46.99
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Vendor: John C. Calhoun
A Disquisition on Government
Author: John C. CalhounISBN-10: 8200084647ISBN-13: 9798200084647Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 5.75h x 5.83w x 0.39d- $27.99
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Vendor: Stephen Wertheim
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of Us Global Supremacy
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power...- $29.95
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Vendor: William J. Bauer
We Are the Land: A History of Native California
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies...- $51.99
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Vendor: Romano Guardini
The World and the Person: And Other Writings
No Catholic library is complete without these five landmark works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century. This treasury of five monumental works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Andrew Biggio
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is the inspirational story of a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived...- $41.99
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Vendor: Craig L. Symonds
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
Seventy years ago, more than 6000 Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a 50-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Anderson Cooper
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.From...- $41.99
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Vendor: Christine Rendel
Over a Hot Stove Lib/E: A Kitchen Maid's Story
This delightful memoir provides a unique Upstairs, Downstairs account of what life was really like in a bygone era At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life in service. Starting as a kitchen maid...- $46.99
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Vendor: Eri Hotta
Japan 1941 Lib/E: Countdown to Infamy
Author: Eri HottaISBN-10: 8200054667ISBN-13: 9798200054664Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2013Format: CDWeight: 0.40lbs- $76.99
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Vendor: Steven Elliott
War Story: Sometimes the Real Fight Starts After the Battle
Every soldier has a war story.Steven Elliott's opens with the death of American hero Pat Tillman by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan--when Army Ranger Elliott pulled the trigger, believing he and his fellow soldiers were firing on the enemy.Tormented by remorse and PTSD in the...- $34.95
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Vendor: Miles Lagoze
Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan
"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura.This is a war story. But it is also a story of a lost...- $39.99
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Vendor: Amitav Ghosh
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
A journalist who "illuminates the human drama behind the headlines" writes about today's dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly)."An uncannily honest writer," Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Damon Root
A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a time when the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence...- $36.99
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Vendor: Kate Storey
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod--the iconic place where they've celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds--based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a respected Esquire writer.Hyannis Port, Massachusetts,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rachel Louise Martin
A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation...- $39.99
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Vendor: Neil Howe
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will...- $55.99
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Vendor: Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
#1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric...- $49.99
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