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Vendor: Simon Winchester
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires affecting large...- $45.95
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Vendor: Sarah Weinman
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions about women's rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States...- $49.99
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Vendor: Prager University
The Honest Book of Presidents
A guide to the fascinating history of the American presidency from top experts.Only the most remarkable Americans have been granted the title, President of the United States. In this short keepsake volume, PragerU's world-renowned historians, political thinkers, and bestselling authors will give you a...- $49.99
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Vendor: Fergus Butler-Gallie
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
Karen Armstrong meets Pico Iyer in this sweeping history of Christianity that visits a dozen places of worship on every inhabited continent to tell their often wild stories and examine their sometimes difficult legacies.Christianity is the largest religion in the US with upwards of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Beverly Ford
The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts
Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston's gangster past. The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city's criminal underworld has a long...- $45.95
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Vendor: Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man's Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair."This is a book I reread a lot ... it gives me hope ... it gives me...- $36.95
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Vendor: Janet Horvath
The Cello Still Sings: A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music
A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and...- $45.95
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Vendor: James A. Buccellato
Early Organized Crime in Detroit: Vice, Corruption and the Rise of the Mafia
Social scientist and crime writer James A. Buccellato explores Detroit's struggle with gang violence, public corruption, and the politics of vice during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century. Though detectives denied it, the Italian mafia was operating in Detroit as early as...- $45.95
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Vendor: William T. Taylor
Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History
Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Wilfred M. McClay
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Young Readers Edition, Volume 1)
The American story begins before there was an America at all, except in the imagination of peoples around the world, living in poverty and yearning for freedom. From its beginnings America has been a land of hope, a magnet for people looking for a...- $41.99
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Vendor: Corey Robin
The Reactionary Mind Lib/E: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
In The Reactionary Mind, Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market; others...- $16.99
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Vendor: Angela Y. Davis
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Molly Caldwell Crosby
The American Plague Lib/E: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and...- $16.99
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Vendor: Sujatha Gidla
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age...- $19.99
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Vendor: Dee Brown
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 Knee...- $44.95
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Vendor: On Barak
Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet
Shifts the conversation from abstract "global warming" to the deeply human impacts of heat--and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of...- $45.99
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Vendor: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
A prize-winning science writer reveals the intricate ways that the elements are woven into our culture, history, and language in stories of discovery and discoverers; of rituals and values; of exploitation and celebration; and of superstition as well as scienceLike the alphabet, the calendar...- $55.99
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Vendor: Peter Dear
The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences comes a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science.Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to...- $49.99
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Vendor: Dave R. Holland
Guadalcanal's Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front
The Matanikau battles proved to be the critical turning points in the land campaign for Guadalcanal--the campaign's longest and bloodiest ground fight. A five-month conflict raged along the river and its basin. The real importance of this area has long remained unrecognized, yet the...- $45.99
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Vendor: Bryan H. Leese
At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet: The Evolution of U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in the Cold War
At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet examines the critical transformation of naval intelligence during a pivotal era marked by the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict. Bryan Leese meticulously details how US Navy operational intelligence evolved to meet the complexities of modern naval warfare,...- $55.99
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Vendor: Daniel E. Zoughbie
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump
The compelling, groundbreaking investigation of how the choices of twelve US presidents, from Truman to Trump, have fueled turbulence and turmoil in the Middle East. And the one president who chose a better way.Kicking the Hornet's Nest is a riveting exploration of how twelve...- $39.99
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Vendor: Taylor Cassidy
Black History Is Your History
From TikTok star and creator of Fast Black History Taylor Cassidy comes a witty, lightly illustrated nonfiction debut that blends history and memoir in a joyful celebration of Black American historical figures.Meet Taylor Cassidy, Black history enthusiast and creator of the viral TikTok series...- $29.99
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Vendor: Andrea Janes
America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction
We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film--breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and...- $49.99
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Vendor: Marissa Franks Burt
The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families
Christian parents want to raise their kids in a godly way. But what if we've been sold a promise that "biblical parenting" can never deliver? In The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis explore how the Christian parenting...- $45.99
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Vendor: Beverly Ford
The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts
Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston's gangster past. The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city's criminal underworld has a long...- $35.99
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Vendor: Brad L. Fisher
The Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the Cia's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962
How is it possible for an agency of the United States government to be exempt from providing what the US Constitution's Appropriations Clause describes as "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money"? In The Hidden Cost of...- $49.99
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Vendor: David Broder
Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy
The fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia--a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war against the left, polarized political debate around WWII, and even secured the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Robert Coram
Gully Dirt: On Exposing the Klan, Raising a Hog, and Escaping the South
No part of America scars its children as does the south. In this incandescent memoir, Robert Coram tells how a rough-edged boy escaped from a nowhere little town in rural southwest Georgia and became an accomplished writer. With a flawless ear and an unblinking...- $45.99
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Vendor: Alan F. Dutka
Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaires' Row
Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior. May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager...- $32.99
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Vendor: Gregory D. Sumner
Detroit in World War II
When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great "Arsenal of Democracy," Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, putting careers and personal ambitions on hold. Factories were retooled from the ground...- $35.99
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Vendor: Richard Panchyk
Hidden History of Long Island
Long Island's history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions, and captivating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to Earle Ovington, who carried the country's first airmail, the area has been known as the cradle of...- $35.99
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Vendor: Michael Haag
The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
The acclaimed medieval historian chronicles the rise of Templar powers in the Levant--and the saga of their destruction. Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the...- $49.99
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Vendor: Joseph Balkoski
Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944
"A first-class history, impeccably researched and skillfully written . . . by the foremost historian of the American D-Day experience." --Naval History Added to the invasion plan largely at the insistence of British General Bernard Montgomery, the attack at Utah Beach aimed to secure...- $55.99
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Vendor: Ramachandra Guha
Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, "too poor to be green." In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory...- $55.99
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Vendor: Paul LeBlanc
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution
Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow's Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today's capitalist society, riven by class inequality and imperialist wars, perhaps it is worth returning to...- $45.99
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Vendor: Claudia Smith Brinson
Stories of Struggle: The Clash Over Civil Rights in South Carolina
In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings, death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured--as well as those who risked...- $49.99
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Vendor: Tiya Miles
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jarvis R. Givens
American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as "the great equalizer" to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces...- $55.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth R. Hyman
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women--champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid...- $45.99
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Vendor: Patrick G. Eddington
The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower
A history with surprising new revelations about the depths of government surveillance and constitutional rights abuses In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, anarchist and socialist political movements spurred the expansion of nascent United States federal surveillance capabilities. But it was the ensuing, decades-long persistent...- $55.99
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Vendor: Tamara Smithers
The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo: Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame--or second life--from their own times through the nineteenth century. These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective...- $49.99
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Vendor: Raymond Bagdonas
The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Strachwitz, the Panzer Graf
The most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. He was serving with the 1st Panzer Division when the Polish campaign inaugurated World War II. Strachwitz's exploits as commander of...- $55.99
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Vendor: Foxx Nolte
Hidden History of Walt Disney World
Author Foxx Nolte gives listeners a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the...- $35.99
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Vendor: Riley Black
The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth
Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart--a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history...- $45.99
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Vendor: Gary A. Linderer
Phantom Warriors: Book II: More Extraordinary True Combat Stories from Lrrps, Lrps, and Rangers in Vietnam
MORE GRIPPING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED LRRP ACCOUNTS FROM THE FRONT LINES During the Vietnam War, few combat operations were more dangerous than LRRP/Ranger missions. Vastly outnumbered, the patrols faced overwhelming odds as they fought to carry out their missions, from gathering intelligence, acting as hunter/killer teams,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Joe Street
Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party
Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. Joe Street highlights the complexity of the BPP's history through three key themes: the BPP's intellectual history, its political and social...- $49.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Freedland
The Traitors Circle
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist comes the extraordinary true story of a group of daring Germans who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.The Traitors Circle tells the true, but scarcely known, story of a group...- $49.99
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Vendor: Vanessa Taylor
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
A magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.Every river deserves its own history.The seven rivers in this narrative were chosen because they...- $49.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Buchanan
So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
Why do despots over the centuries keep wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who've tried . . . and uniformly failed . . .An indispensable guide to Greenland--why it matters, and how it could become the next global flashpoint.Ever...- $35.95
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Vendor: Don Martin
Where Did Everybody Go?: Why We're Lonely But Not Alone
In the bestselling tradition of Mary Roach and A.J. Jacobs comes a fresh and powerful deep dive on loneliness, illuminating the complexity of this misunderstood social phenomenon and why people need people.According to a report by the US Surgeon General in 2023, one out...- $29.99
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