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Vendor: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary "seduction theory," arguing that childhood sexual abuse directly caused adult mental illness. Just nine years later, he completely reversed this stance, insisting these traumatic memories were mere fantasies. Why did Freud retract his original theory? And why...- $45.95
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Vendor: William Sheridan Allen
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945, Revised Edition
In this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects Northeim, Germany with microscopic precision...- $59.99
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Vendor: Fiona Maddocks
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland--his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left...- $49.99
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Vendor: Stacy Mintzer Herlihy
Herding Immunity: The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today, and still to come. In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Ed Conway
The Summit Lib/E: Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy
The meeting of world leaders at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. The system they set up presided over the longest, strongest, and most stable period of...- $76.99
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Vendor: David B. Woolner
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
The first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals, the end of FDR's presidency might very well surpass it in drama and consequence....- $46.99
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Vendor: Sarah Vowell
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette--the one Frenchman we could all agree on--and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality. On August 16, 1824, an elderly...- $29.99
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Vendor: Christopher Gorham
Matisse at War
In 1940, with the Nazis sweeping through France, Henri Matisse found himself at a personal and artistic crossroads. His marriage had ended, he was gravely ill, and after decades at the forefront of modern art, he was beset by doubt. As scores of famous...- $49.99
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Vendor: Anika Burgess
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous. In Flashes...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark D. Steinberg
A History of Russia: 9th Edition
Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military,...- $69.95
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Vendor: Danielle Dreilinger
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economicsThe term home economics may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded...- $44.99
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Vendor: Sean Crisden
The Death of the USS Thresher Lib/E: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
When she first went to sea in April of 1961, the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines. In The Death of the USS Thresher, renowned naval and intelligence consultant Norman Polmar...- $16.99
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Vendor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called the biggest prison building project...- $39.99
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Vendor: George D. Morgan
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls...- $17.99
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Vendor: Paul Cartledge
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past
Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order. Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on...- $29.95
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Vendor: Scott Anderson
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Author: Scott AndersonISBN-13: 9798217288366Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2025Format: CD- $55.00
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Vendor: Jake Tapper
Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War
The unforgettable true story of two US attorneys in a race to lock up a dangerous al Qaeda terrorist before he is set free, from New York Times bestselling author and CNN correspondent Jake TapperJune 2011. A man fleeing the Arab Spring on a...- $39.99
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Vendor: Andrew Rule
Winx: The Full Story of the World's Best Racehorse
Winx joins Phar Lap and Bradman in the history books: a national sporting idol and the world's best racehorse. Australia's world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Bradman transcends cricket....- $49.99
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Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language.Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Andrew Ferguson
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff. Like so many sons of Illinois before him, he hung photos of Abe on his bedroom wall, memorized the Gettysburg Address,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Lucy Worsley
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Murder: a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy--and a very strange, very English obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English...- $17.99
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Vendor: John F. Kennedy
Profiles in Courage CD
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a...- $22.00
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Vendor: Tareq Baconi
Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir
"I am forever changed after reading this book." --Javier Zamora, author of Solito From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home. Both a love story and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carolyn Marvin
Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby. On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is...- $29.99
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Vendor: Nicholas Wade
The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
The renowned New York Times bestselling author of Before the Dawn breaks down the startling ways that evolution explains why societies succeed and fail. In the modern world, human nature is seldom taken into account by those who would reshape society. Nicholas Wade argues...- $39.99
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Vendor: Madeline Potter
The Roma: A Traveling History
A unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new light on their history, where they have traveled and settled, and what it means to be Romani today.The word Roma conjures images of free-spirited nomads, creative and...- $49.99
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The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods
The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation--a show of unparalleled dominance in the sport with which he has become synonymous.In the annals...- $45.95
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Vendor: Jerry Enzler
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in...- $55.99
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Vendor: Erich Von Däniken
Odyssey of the Gods: The History of Extraterrestrial Contact in Ancient Greece
Legendary UFO expert Erich von Däniken stirs up another controversy with an imaginative supposition: What if the myths of ancient Greece were attempts to describe events that really happened? What if ancient peoples were visited, not by imaginary gods and goddesses, but by extraterrestrial...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rodney Stark
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
As we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called Hitler's Pope, the Dark Ages were a...- $41.99
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Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about rope and its importance to humankind than most. In Rope,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Joshua Sharpe
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area's Black community. For fifteen years, the case remained unsolved. Then authorities zeroed in on Dennis Perry, a carpenter who grew up...- $39.99
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Vendor: Tim Scott
One Nation Always Under God: Profiles in Christian Courage
In every state, in every decade, America has been built on faith.From our Founding Fathers to today's heroes of faith, Christianity has been the bedrock of our nation's greatness. In One Nation Always Under God, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott shows how Christian values...- $45.99
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Vendor: Raffaello Carboni
The Eureka Stockade
A firsthand account of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Carboni, an Italian revolutionary and participant in the uprising, wrote the book to document the miners' struggle against the colonial authorities. The story captures the miners' frustrations over oppressive mining licenses, police...- $35.95
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Vendor: Jon Balchin
100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World
"If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."-- Sir Isaac NewtonThis audiobook introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have...- $45.95
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Vendor: Charles Pellegrino
Ghosts of Hiroshima
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERONFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name, Titanic, this masterpiece of nonfiction arrives in time to honor the eightieth anniversary of the bomb dropping on Hiroshima. For all...- $35.95
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Vendor: Christina Delaine
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. In The Browns of California, journalist and...- $57.99
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Vendor: Kevin Fedarko
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along...- $55.99
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Vendor: Jay A. Stout
Fighter Group: The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II
As described by award-winning author Jay A. Stout, the 352nd Fighter Group was one of the Eighth Air Force's most successful fighter units and counted history's two top-scoring P-51 aces among its ranks. This book--the most comprehensive work ever to cover the actions of...- $44.95
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Vendor: G. K. Chesterton
St. Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who...- $19.95
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Vendor: Molly Beer
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her...- $49.99
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Vendor: DVM
Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices, and the associated attitudes, evolve from prehistory to the present day? To answer these questions, Dr. Schott shares stories of twenty-two different animal healers and veterinarians from...- $39.99
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Vendor: Alexandra Churchill
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
At the start of World War I in 1914, many global citizens believed it would be a short conflict that would settle old scores in a matter of weeks--but it was soon clear that was not going to be the case. From the Balkans...- $49.99
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Vendor: Alexandra Churchill
Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914
At the start of World War I in 1914, many global citizens believed it would be a short conflict that would settle old scores in a matter of weeks--but it was soon clear that was not going to be the case. From the Balkans...- $45.95
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Vendor: Thomas Asbridge
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
Renowned scholar Thomas Asbridge brings to life medieval England's most celebrated knight, William Marshal--providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father...- $45.95
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Vendor: Johnny Joey Jones
Behind the Badge: Answering the Call to Serve on America's Homefront
First responders run toward things the rest of us run away from.What makes a person want to become a first responder? Who would become a cop after her brother died in the line of duty? What guy rejects joining a lucrative family business to...- $45.95
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Vendor: Alex Wellerstein
The Most Awful Responsibillity: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
A nuclear historian gives a new, surprising account of one of the most controversial actions in history--how the United States deployed the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II--and the fallout that continues to haunt us.In the eight decades since the...- $49.99
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Vendor: Linda Barrett Osborne
Who's Got Mail?: The History of Mail in America
A fascinating history of the US Post Office for kids, from acclaimed author Linda Barrett Osborne"In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." --Alexis de Toqueville, 1835Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled...- $21.95
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Vendor: Gonzalez
All about the Burger: A History of America's Favorite Sandwich
A History of the Burger, From Conception to Perfection A World History of Burgers: Do you know what the first burger chain was? That Taco Bell was originally known as Bell Burger--and was founded in the same city as McDonald's? Have you heard of...- $31.99
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Vendor: Keith McKim
US Navy Sog Seals: Working with Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard to Rescue a Downed Pilot in Vietnam
Based on the true stories of the two US Navy Seals operating behind enemy lines in Vietnam with the super top-secret unit MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Special Operations Group)US Navy Seal Lieutenant Tom Norris, on three separate occasions over a four day period,...- $24.95
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