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Vendor: Arthur M. Eckstein
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC
This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the creation of the first stage of Roman dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applying modern political theory to ancient...- $9.99
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Vendor: Orlando Figes
A People's Tragedy
Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People's Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....- $24.99
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A Tuscan Childhood
The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic Bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian castle in the years between the two world wars.When Kinta Beevor was five years old, her father, the painter...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard White
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...- $19.99
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Vendor: Andrew Chaikin
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were...- $47.99
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Vendor: Adin E. Lears
World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England
Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted...- $51.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Krull
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a...- $19.95
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Vendor: Charles J. Hanley
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secretsThe war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical...- $35.00
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Vendor: Charles Leerhsen
Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500
Hear the heart-pounding, engine-revving true story of the first Indy 500--America's most celebrated automobile race. In 1911, thousands of spectators gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch 40 cars compete in the first annual Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. Better known as the Indy 500,...- $24.99
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Vendor: Mark Levine
The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release this fall of the film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial...- $44.99
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The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Critically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider's look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time--Casablanca. Updated and timed for the 60th anniversary (Thanksgiving Day, 1942)...- $14.99
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Vendor: Anne Glenconner
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
**International Bestseller**An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood,...- $34.00
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Vendor: Steve Silverman
The Flip Side of History: Strange News, Hard-To-Believe Headlines, and Other Curious Stories from History
In this collection of true, quirky history, Steve Silverman provides fascinating tales to astonish and entertain. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories that have been lost to history highlight the quirks, complexities, and curious nature of our species.Hidden History, Strange Stories, and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Thomas A. Schwartz
Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger - at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised - and reviled - public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his...- $29.99
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Vendor: Chris Barker
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters: A BBC Radio 4 Adaptation
Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are...- $12.95
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Vendor: Maya Washington
Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
A warm and invigorating memoir about a daughter's love for her father and her appreciation for how he and others changed the game of football forever.Gene Washington's football career ended long before his daughter Maya was born. She never saw the legendary powerhouse as...- $24.99
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Vendor: Stephen Walker
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
"This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling....It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched." (The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review) "Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded...- $44.99
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Vendor: Bob Blaisdell
Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there...- $14.99
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The Black Joke: One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Kelly Weill
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly two-hundred-year-old delusion--the idea that we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice. It is the ultimate in conspiracy theories, a wholesale rejection of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Tom Wolfe
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine: And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
In this 1976 collection of essays, Americana icon Tom Wolfe explores the social status strife of the 1970s, eviscerating trends of faux-sympathy and self-absorption, going as far as to coin the term The 'Me' Decade to describe the period's narcissism. And when paired with...- $24.99
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Vendor: Edward Slingerland
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
A entertaining and enlightening deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization--and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised) While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have...- $38.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Donner
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days Lib/E: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
The true story of the extraordinary life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany, who was executed on Hitler's direct order--uncovered by her great-great-niece in this riveting, deeply researched account.Born and raised...- $100.99
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Vendor: Ethan Michaeli
Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist - of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historian's vision and a journalist's unrelenting curiosity. -- Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of...- $51.99
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Vendor: Heather Demetrios
Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall
Code Name Verity meets Inglourious Basterds in this riotous, spirited biography of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall.When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse...- $39.99
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Vendor: Neda Toloui-Semnani
They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents
From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations.In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise...- $24.99
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They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents
From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations.In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise...- $34.99
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Vendor: Jerad W. Alexander
Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
In this provocative, impassioned memoir, Jerad W. Alexander reveals what it was like to be raised on war, vividly recreating the masculine fantasies of American heroism and patriotism that animated his childhood--and at the same time brilliantly dismantling those myths. To many outsiders, joining...- $41.99
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Vendor: James Poskett
Horizons Lib/E: The Global Origins of Modern Science
The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught. When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe....- $76.99
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Vendor: Shashi Tharoor
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Gibel
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women. Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. Here, in...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rachael Bade
Unchecked Lib/E: The Impeachment of Donald Trump
POLITICO and Washington Post journalists Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian write about the inner workings of President Trump's impeachment.Author: Rachael Bade, Karoun DemirjianISBN-10: 1799946738ISBN-13: 9781799946731Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2022Format: CD- $79.99
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Vendor: Stephen B. Oates
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
"The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln." --Washington Post"Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written." --David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review The definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of...- $65.99
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Vendor: Bee Wilson
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Author: Bee WilsonISBN-10: 8200074390ISBN-13: 9798200074396Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $39.99
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Vendor: Lawrence Anthony
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Author: Lawrence Anthony, Graham SpenceISBN-10: 8200025527ISBN-13: 9798200025527Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $41.99
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Vendor: Selwyn Raab
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Author: Selwyn RaabISBN-10: 8200000869ISBN-13: 9798200000869Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $65.99
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Vendor: Erwin W. Lutzer
Rescuing the Gospel: The Story and Significance of the Reformation
Author: Erwin W. LutzerISBN-10: 1665275324ISBN-13: 9781665275323Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $39.99
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Vendor: Amy-Jill Levine
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
Author: Amy-Jill LevineISBN-10: 1665274239ISBN-13: 9781665274234Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d- $44.99
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Vendor: Toby Wilkinson
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Author: Toby WilkinsonISBN-10: 1665260440ISBN-13: 9781665260442Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $55.99
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Vendor: Hannes Wessels
A Handful of Hard Men Lib/E: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
Author: Hannes WesselsISBN-10: 1665255269ISBN-13: 9781665255264Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.20h x 6.60w x 1.30d- $71.99
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Vendor: Mark Honigsbaum
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Author: Mark HonigsbaumISBN-10: 1665127112ISBN-13: 9781665127110Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2019Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $39.99
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Vendor: Mari K. Eder
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of fifteen unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during...- $31.95
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Vendor: Margery Allingham
The Oaken Heart
Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy ('Auburn') when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens' post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for...- $46.99
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Vendor: David S. Brown
The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
A revelatory, timely, and masterful biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a new perspective on this charismatic figure in the context of American populism--identifying the reasons for his popularity as it shows us the man and politician in his full complexity.A number of...- $49.99
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Vendor: Eva Taylor
My Mother's War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Member Survived Three Concentration Camps
The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters After her mother's death, Eva Taylor discovered an...- $36.99
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Vendor: Ronald Hutton
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)--the only English commoner to become the overall head of state--is one of the great figures of history, but his...- $51.99
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Vendor: Jaci Byrne
The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz.When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promises his beloved wife Mabel he will return to serenade her once again. But when he's captured,...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jason Miklian
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of BengalIn November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated...- $51.99
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Vendor: Lia Levi
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places. This classic, powerful story from Lia Levi is adapted for young readers, with a powerful...- $24.99
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Vendor: Paul A. Offit
Vaccinated: From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
Updated with a New ForewordMedical writing at its finest.--David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs--vaccinations--and the medical hero...- $41.99
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