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The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
From the bestselling author of Washington's Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, MassachusettsOn the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of...- $46.95
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George V: Never a Dull Moment
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was...- $67.99
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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. A Voice...- $34.95
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Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon
On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a...- $34.95
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Let Me Be Frank: A Book about Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women.This book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger...- $36.99
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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....- $49.95
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Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University
From the University of Virginia's very inception, slavery was deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to construct and then later lived in the Academical Village; they raised and prepared food, washed clothes, cleaned privies, and chopped wood. They maintained the buildings,...- $29.95
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present....- $69.99
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Bury My Heart at Wounded...- $32.95
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review)--the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan...- $14.99
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Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established...- $67.95
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Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas
2020 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Alongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles...- $34.95
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The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud
The Kingdom is the story of a country--a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words "In the name of God," where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers...- $54.95
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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country. -- James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rutger Bregman
Humankind: A Hopeful History
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, a "bold" (Daniel H. Pink), "provocative" (Adam Grant) argument that our innate goodness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in humanity's success.If there is one belief that has united the left...- $35.00
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The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North
The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between...- $29.95
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Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband's American Revolution
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of working-class activists, the U.S. Constitution favored the interests of a corrupt elite and betrayed the lofty...- $29.95
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Vanderbilt CD: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's...- $39.99
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Vendor: Phil Keith
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer, for readers of Unbroken...- $34.99
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Vendor: Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the "Band of Brothers," they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire.Dick Winters led...- $24.95
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Vendor: David McCullough
1776
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake...- $29.95
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Vendor: Rick Atkinson
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944volume 2
The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns. In An Army at Dawn--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American...- $39.95
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Vendor: Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus Low Price CD: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed...- $19.99
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Vendor: Katja Hoyer
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
This vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918--which inspired events that forever changed the European continent--is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.Before 1871, Germany was not yet...- $31.95
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the Indian Wars.Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull:...- $46.99
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Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--A Story for All Generations
Performed by Anna Cordell and Dov Forman featuring a foreword written and read by Charles HRH The Prince of Wales and dedication written and read by Lily Ebert.Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ray E. Boomhower
Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam
In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard...- $39.95
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Vendor: David Page
Food Americana: The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories Behind America's Favorite Dishes
What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become American, and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more. America is more than...- $34.99
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with...- $39.99
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear. --Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice InitiativeWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard Cohen
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past.There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And...- $99.99
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Operation Pineapple Express
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade--and 500 other Afghans--being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April 2021, an urgent call...- $39.99
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Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
A history of the colorful and complex kingdom of cosplay and fandom fashion by Andrew Liptak, journalist, historian, and member of the legendary fan-based Star Wars organization the 501st Legion.In recent years, cosplay--the practice of dressing up in costume as a character--has exploded, becoming...- $44.99
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland--the honest, principled, and plain-spoken president whose country has largely overlooked him.Featuring a wealth of in-depth research and newly uncovered details, A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland--one of America's most unusual...- $44.99
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Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends--Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months,...- $21.99
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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...- $41.99
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Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers' Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy Seal Lone Survivor in Afghanistan
A story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Army Rangers' rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Operations incidents in Afghanistan--a grueling search for twelve Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers--but just one lone survivorOn June 28, 2005, a...- $29.95
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Vendor: Douglas Murray
The War on the West
China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the...- $46.99
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Vendor: Dave Meyer
Freedom Is Costly, But Priceless: If Not Maintained, It Will Not Remain
The key to America's future begins with exploring our past. In Freedom Is Costly, But Priceless, Dave Meyer shares the importance of our nation's true history--learning about our rich, godly heritage and discovering Who and what has made this nation so great. God's Word...- $39.99
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Vendor: Cynthia Saltzman
Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
A captivating study of Napoleon's plundering of Europe's art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from VenicePlunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of...- $44.99
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Audacious...Life on the Mississippi sparkles." --The Wall Street Journal * "A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch * "Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America's westward expansion." --The Christian Science Monitor...- $44.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Raff
Origin Lib/E: A Genetic History of the Americas
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived...- $100.99
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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and Nasa's Challenger Disaster
On January 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's Teacher in Space, was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember. Kevin Cook tells...- $39.99
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
Bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, antivice activist and US postal inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women's rights at the turn of the twentieth century.Anthony Comstock, special agent to the US Post Office, was...- $34.95
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference...- $39.95
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Vendor: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
In the tradition of Sapiens and Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western Exceptionalism--the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent--lies beneath a...- $40.00
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Vendor: Christopher R. Browning
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.--Newsweek Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the...- $46.99
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius that will...- $46.99
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the...- $41.99
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration. --Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and...- $57.99
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