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Vendor: Patrick Wyman
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve...- $40.00
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Vendor: Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein....- $14.99
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Vendor: Gary E. Moulton
The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery: The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition
Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey. In their own words,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Victor Herman
Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life
In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union, where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was forty-five years before he was...- $32.95
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...- $39.95
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Vendor: Judy Batalion
The Light of Days CD: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose...- $44.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when...- $75.00
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....- $49.99
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Vendor: Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away...- $19.95
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Vendor: Heather Greene
Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life
In the populist tradition of Andrea Immer, New York City's first female whiskey sommelier translates today's hottest spirit for a new generation of imbibers Whiskey is in the midst of a huge renaissance. Ten years ago, the United States housed sixty-nine craft distillers; today,...- $36.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand for
A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others--that reminds us of fundamental American principles....- $24.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...- $49.99
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Vendor: Timothy Snyder
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War TwoAmericans call the Second World War The Good War.But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions...- $55.00
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Vendor: Kinta Beevor
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: 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: 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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Vendor: Aljean Harmetz
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: 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: 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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Vendor: A. E. Rooks
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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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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