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  • Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space by Walker, Stephen
    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...
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  • When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

    "Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people." --Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author...
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  • Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Angela, Alberto
    Alberto Angela

    Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

    One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is...
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  • We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Nesteroff, Kliph
    Kliph Nesteroff

    We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy

    From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and unheralded story of Native Americans and comedy.It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill's stand-up routine, the line almost always guaranteed to get a big laugh: "I'm from...
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  • A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Wilkinson, Toby
    Toby Wilkinson

    A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

    A thrilling history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering...
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  • The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier by Nelson, James Carl
    James Carl Nelson

    The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier

    In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to...
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  • War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gorenberg, Gershom
    Gershom Gorenberg

    War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

    Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv. The SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far. Espionage can stop them - if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in North Africa, General...
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  • Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty by Samuel Goldblum, Joanne
    Joanne Samuel Goldblum

    Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty

    Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime-but we need to...
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  • Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Duster, Michelle
    Michelle Duster

    Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells

    Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI,...
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  • Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews: Introduced with New Commentary by Steve Kroft by Kroft, Steve
    Steve Kroft

    Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews: Introduced with New Commentary by Steve Kroft

    An audio-only collection published in partnership with CBS News's 60 Minutes. Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews offers an unprecedented glimpse into the Obama presidency, through a series of extended interviews presented with new commentary by award-winning 60 Minutes veteran Steve Kroft. Kroft conducted...
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  • Vip: Dr. Mae Jemison: Brave Rocketeer by Alexander, Heather
    Heather Alexander

    Vip: Dr. Mae Jemison: Brave Rocketeer

    Soar to the stars with Dr. Mae Jemison in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the true--and amazing--stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the...
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  • Trust: America's Best Chance by Buttigieg, Pete
    Pete Buttigieg

    Trust: America's Best Chance

    Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament--and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the essential foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg,...
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  • I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals by Sisson, Frank
    Frank Sisson

    I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals

    Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a soldier with the American Third Army who served under the legendary warrior and participated in many of the most consequential events of...
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  • The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Roberts, Sophy
    Sophy Roberts

    The Lost Pianos of Siberia

    Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell.Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos?grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their...
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  • The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Roberts, Sophy
    Sophy Roberts

    The Lost Pianos of Siberia

    Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell.Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos?grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their...
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  • Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Stanley, Amy
    Amy Stanley

    Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

    A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with...
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  • Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Meter, Matthew Van
    Matthew Van Meter

    Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

    The unforgettable story of one lawyer and his defendant who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights eraIn 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop...
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  • Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC by Dickey, J. D.
    J. D. Dickey

    Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC

    Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Before America became a world power in the...
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  • My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Sellers, Bakari
    Bakari Sellers

    My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

    What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men...
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  • The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas by Ellsworth, Scott
    Scott Ellsworth

    The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

    One of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century and an unforgettable saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement-all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war. While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s,...
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  • Anti-Christian Violence in India by Bauman, Chad M.
    Chad M. Bauman

    Anti-Christian Violence in India

    Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007-2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious...
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  • Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy by Lewy, Guenter
    Guenter Lewy

    Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

    Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. The Weimar Republic era--the fifteen years between Germany's defeat in World War I (1918) and...
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  • The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate by Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne
    Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

    The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

    An Authorlink Top Five Book of 2020 As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People's Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation's prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to...
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  • Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Knowlton, Christopher
    Christopher Knowlton

    Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression

    Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth,...
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  • The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Crowley, Roger
    Roger Crowley

    The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

    From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for...
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  • White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Jones, Robert P.
    Robert P. Jones

    White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

    Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves...
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  • Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America by Grubiak, Margaret M.
    Margaret M. Grubiak

    Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America

    The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus...
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  • How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Richardson, Heather Cox
    Heather Cox Richardson

    How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

    While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and...
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  • The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by Rubenstein, David M.
    David M. Rubenstein

    The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

    Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects...
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  • Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror by Lane, Charles
    Charles Lane

    Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

    This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by. -Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of...
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  • The Right Stuff by Wolfe, Tom
    Tom Wolfe

    The Right Stuff

    From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) - a breathtaking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words...
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  • This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow by Ariosto, David
    David Ariosto

    This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow

    Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view.This is Cuba is...
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  • Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Hara, Tameichi
    Tameichi Hara

    Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes

    This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a...
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  • Tolstoy by Crankshaw, Edward
    Edward Crankshaw

    Tolstoy

    Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had...
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  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Stillwell, Kevin
    Kevin Stillwell

    Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties

    A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including...
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  • Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam by Coonts, Stephen
    Stephen Coonts

    Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam

    A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historianEvery war has its bridge--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River Kwai,...
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  • The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Holt, Nathalia
    Nathalia Holt

    The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

    From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generationsBehind the beloved animated films of Walt Disney Studios, which have moved and entertained millions of...
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  • Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil by Corporon, Yvette Manessis
    Yvette Manessis Corporon

    Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

    Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants--and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew...
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  • A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic by Lord, Walter
    Walter Lord

    A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic

    Over one hundred years ago, the mightiest "unsinkable" ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she...
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  • Is God a Mathematician? by Livio, Mario
    Mario Livio

    Is God a Mathematician?

    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history's greatest mathematicians to ask how--if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind--it can so perfectly explain the physical world. Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness...
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  • Barracoon Lib/E: The Story of the Last \Black Cargo\ by Hurston, Zora Neale
    Zora Neale Hurston

    Barracoon Lib/E: The Story of the Last \Black Cargo\

    A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic...
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  • Those Who Fall by Muirhead, John
    John Muirhead

    Those Who Fall

    As a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot, John Muirhead led missions into northern Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria during World War II. Ultimately, he was shot down and taken prisoner.John Muirhead's re-creation of those years is a breathtaking mingling of ravaging horrors and silent, surreal...
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  • The Lincoln Ideals: His Personality and Principles as Reflected in His Own Words [With Booklet] by Lincoln, Abraham
    Abraham Lincoln

    The Lincoln Ideals: His Personality and Principles as Reflected in His Own Words [With Booklet]

    This remarkable, pocket-sized collection of excerpts and quotes in Lincoln's own words provides an inspiring insight into the mind of our greatest president.Author: Abraham LincolnISBN-10: 1933715944ISBN-13: 9781933715940Publisher: Tremendous Life BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2010Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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  • Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Olson, Tod
    Tod Olson

    Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink

    Lost in the Pacific is the first book in a narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 1942: a plane...
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  • Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13 by Olson, Tod
    Tod Olson

    Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13

    This exciting second book in the Lost series tells the incredible true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 space shuttle set off for the third intended American moon landing. Two...
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  • Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food by Del Conte, Anna
    Anna Del Conte

    Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food

    Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual...
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  • The Original Watergate Stories by The Washington Post
    The Washington Post

    The Original Watergate Stories

    To mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, The Washington Post's seminal Watergate stories have been gathered together for the first time as an audiobook, including a foreword by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein assessing the impact of their stories 40 years...
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  • The Story of English in 100 Words by Crystal, David
    David Crystal

    The Story of English in 100 Words

    In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written...
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  • Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by Mahaffey, James
    James Mahaffey

    Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

    A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear science From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific...
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  • Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Kohn, Edward P.
    Edward P. Kohn

    Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president--a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his...
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