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Vendor: Katie Spalding
Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realize they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. In Katie Spalding's raucous and hilarious debut, Edison's Ghosts completely overturns everything you knew about genius. It turns...- $45.00
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Vendor: George Bancroft
History of the United States of America, Volume III: From the Discovery of the Continent
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 3 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History Series in six volumes. "Author's Last Revision" 1883 by D. Appleton and Company.Bancroft...- $56.95
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Vendor: Miles Taylor
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
The author behind the "eye-popping" (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for "The Next Trump."Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not....- $39.99
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Vendor: C. W. Goodyear
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
The first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union...- $55.99
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Vendor: James B. Conroy
The Devils Will Get No Rest: Fdr, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
The first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.The Devils Will Get No Rest is...- $44.99
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Vendor: Robin Dg Kelley
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the long Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial...- $41.99
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
The Sabbath in Puritan New England
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major US Historian SeriesThe Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1891.Note--This book is "read as written". It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.I....- $36.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jesse Rifkin
This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City
A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and...- $51.99
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Vendor: Theodore Roosevelt
The Winning of the West, Vol. 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in six volumes. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.Volume One--From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776Narrated by Joseph TablerNote--This book is "read as written." It...- $36.95
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Vendor: Chun Han Wong
Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China's Superpower Future
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal...- $44.99
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Vendor: Martyn Rady
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn...- $65.00
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Vendor: Douglas Valentine
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.Valentine focuses on the "dark arts" of...- $46.95
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Vendor: Santi Elijah Holley
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
An Amerikan Family is a light helping us go forward." -- Nikki Giovanni, poetAn enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home...- $46.99
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Vendor: Lena S. Andrews
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
"An ingenious look at WWII." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during...- $41.99
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Vendor: Johnnie Moore
The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Century
An inspiring keepsake that honors the heroic sacrifice of today's martyrs for the Christian faith--and shows how their actions mirror the courage of a long line of brave Christians. In the twenty-first century, we are witnessing an escalation in Christian persecution like we have...- $24.99
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Vendor: Bryan Hoch
62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness
An inside look at Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris's home run record and the franchise both men called homeBabe Ruth. Roger Maris. Aaron Judge.Three historic figures across generations of Major League Baseball, all swinging for the fences and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Charles Barber
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army
The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once-in-a-generation lifesaving product: "Suspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears . . . Inspiring" (Robert Kolker, #1 New...- $45.00
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Vendor: Mikhail Zygar
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine--from its emergence as a post-Soviet oligarchic state to a progressive country with increasing economic, cultural, and political ties to Europe and the US--which have led to Putin's current brutal attempt to obliterate...- $44.99
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Vendor: Calder Walton
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and...- $65.99
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Vendor: Daron Acemoglu
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress...- $50.00
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Vendor: Roland Ennos
The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather
A clear and captivating work of popular science that explains rotational force--a basic driver of the universe affecting everything from the cosmos to our own bodies--from the masterful author of The Age of Wood.From the time women first used rotating bobbins to twist thread...- $39.99
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Vendor: Pardis Mahdavi
Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror
The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters--horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse--and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history,...- $45.00
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Vendor: James Risen
The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.For decades now, America's national security state has grown...- $50.00
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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...- $46.99
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Vendor: Derek Perkins
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing...- $55.99
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Vendor: John Strausbaugh
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II
From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, GI Joes and Rosie the Riveters but...- $44.00
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Vendor: Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides' classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BCE persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time. As one who actually participated in the conflict, Thucydides recognized the effect it would have on the history...- $44.95
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Vendor: Tabitha Kenlon
Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman
The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines seven centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women's roles and abilities....- $29.95
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Vendor: Paul Strathern
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia--three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events...- $41.99
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Vendor: Allyson Johnson
Dreams of Africa in Alabama Lib/E: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of...- $71.99
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Vendor: Peter Ackroyd
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon...- $27.99
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Vendor: Peter Mattis
Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links...- $46.99
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Vendor: Justin Pollard
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
Author: Justin Pollard, Howard ReidISBN-10: 820014707XISBN-13: 9798200147076Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2006Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 1.10d- $46.99
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Vendor: Adam Tooze
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Author: Adam ToozeISBN-13: 9798200036080Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2014Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $57.99
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Vendor: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizISBN-10: 8200027880ISBN-13: 9798200027880Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2014Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d- $46.99
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Vendor: Trevor Barnes
Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings
The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War--and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961...- $39.99
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Vendor: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea
This is how history should be told to kids From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti and in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of woman suffrage in America comes the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913.Bartoletti spins a...- $19.99
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Vendor: John O'Connell
The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary
A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world's favorite flavors?The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O'Connell's erudite chapters combine history with insights...- $49.99
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Vendor: Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of Understanding, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
In this modern classic, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh presents a clear, concise translation and commentary of the Heart Sutra--the world's most popular piece of Buddhist scripture.Comprising only 632 Chinese characters, the Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. Despite its brevity, this...- $19.95
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Vendor: William Manchester
The Arms of Krupp: 1587-1968
In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America's preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done. The Arms of Krupp brings to life Europe's wealthiest, most powerful family, a four-hundred-year German dynasty that developed the world's most...- $69.95
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Vendor: Shelby Foote
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox
This remarkable three-part work of history is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The narrative begins here, with all the major battles of course, but also the smaller ones.Author: Shelby FooteISBN-10: 1441737448ISBN-13: 9781441737441Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2010Pages:...- $160.00
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Vendor: Joseph M. Marshall III
The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn: A Lakota History
The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites. The men who led the battle--Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer--have become the stuff of legends,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Lisa Hendrickson
Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West
In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis,...- $41.95
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Vendor: Bruce Dickson
The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone--it pairs this...- $41.99
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Vendor: Mark Lawrence Schrad
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in...- $77.00
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Vendor: Ilise S. Carter
The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History
In America, lipstick is the foundation of empires; it's a signature of identity; it's propaganda, self-expression, oppression, freedom, and rebellion. It's a multibillion-dollar industry and one of our most iconic accessories of gender.This engaging and entertaining history of lipstick from the colonies to the...- $36.95
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Vendor: C. Riley Snorton
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender...- $41.99
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Vendor: Edmund Richardson
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ian Fritz
What the Taliban Told Me
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career....- $39.99
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