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Vendor: Galileo Galilei
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science...- $41.95
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Vendor: Pearson
We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia
This revelatory and gripping nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only place in the United States to ever formally deny its citizens a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Estelle Paranque
Blood, Fire, & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
A Times' Book of the Week A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course...- $50.00
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Vendor: David Rothkopf
American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation
It could have been so much worse: a deeply reported, insider story of how a handful of Washington officials staged a daring resistance to an unprecedented presidency and prevented chaos from overwhelming the government and the nation.Each federal employee takes an oath to support...- $45.00
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Vendor: Katie Nicholl
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Vanity Fair Royals correspondent and bestselling author of William and Harry and Kate explores the remarkable life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II and the legacy she is handing down to the next generation. For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth has ruled over an institution...- $45.00
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Vendor: Daniel Estulin
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has...- $19.99
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Vendor: James M. Hawes
Cold War Navy Seal: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and...- $22.99
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Vendor: Meriwether Lewis
Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark's famous 1804 expedition was told with great detail by the explorers themselves in an eight-volume account. Now young historians have the opportunity to learn the thrills, challenges, and adventures in a version accessible for them. Two years' worth of entries are...- $29.99
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Vendor: David Colacci
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Author: David Colacci, Nicholas P. MoneyISBN-10: 166521726XISBN-13: 9781665217262Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $36.99
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Vendor: Kurt Schlichter
We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America
Humor and polemics from one of America's most quotable pundits. A call for renewal and a howl of laughter and derision at the woke mob that seeks to stand in the way of a great nation's patriotic resurgence. Fans of Mark Levin, Matt Walsh,...- $35.99
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Vendor: Walter Lord
Day of Infamy
Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on...- $29.95
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Vendor: Noam Chomsky
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of Us Power
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan.Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy--not only of authority, but also of explanations of what...- $21.95
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Vendor: R. Philip Bouchard
The Stickler's Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation: The Real Science Behind Hacky Headlines, Crappy Clickbait, and Suspect Sources
The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda. We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases...- $46.99
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Vendor: Cassandra Campbell
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced...- $46.99
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Vendor: Leonard N. Moore
Teaching Black History to White People
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for 25 years, mostly to White people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an understanding of Black...- $24.99
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Vendor: Naomi Hirahara
Life After Manzanar
"A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II...instructive and moving." (Nippon.com)From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement" the...- $24.99
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It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans
The former VA secretary describes his fight to save health care from politics and money-and how it was ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials with influence in the Trump White House. Known in health care circles for his ability to fix...- $35.00
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Vendor: Hanne Blank
Straight: The Surprising Short History of Heterosexuality
It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar Hanne Blank delves deep into the contemporary psyche as well as the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Todd Hasak-Lowy
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent...- $24.99
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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)...- $37.99
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Vendor: William Alexander
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato in this fascinating and erudite microhistory.The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous,...- $45.00
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Vendor: Hugh Ryan
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's...- $45.00
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Vendor: Brendan Simms
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
A vivid new history of the Battle of Midway that transforms our understanding of the iconic turning point of the Second World War. The stunning and decisive battle of Midway was perhaps the most crucial naval battle in the Pacific theater during World War...- $45.00
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Vendor: Michael Eric Dyson
Unequal: A Story of America
Renowned, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America. The true story of racial inequality--and resistance to it--is the prologue to our present. You can see...- $45.00
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Vendor: Jenny Hocking
The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
What role did the queen play in governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, unleashing one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told?Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Scott Dawson
The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
For over 400 years, the mystery of Roanoke's "Lost Colony" has puzzled historians and spawned conspiracies--until now. New discoveries link the lost colony of Roanoke to Hatteras Island.The legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left...- $24.99
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Vendor: Yuri Herrera
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compa a de Santa Gertrudis--the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company--may have committed murder.The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire...- $19.95
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Vendor: Richard Fawkes
The History of Opera
Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from composers Monteverdi to Wagner. Following the widely acclaimed The History of Classical Music, Richard...- $29.99
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Vendor: April White
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century,...- $45.00
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Vendor: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: Mazzeo is a fascinating storyteller (New York Journal of Books). In 1944, news of secret diaries kept...- $45.00
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Vendor: Robert Baer
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert BaerIn the aftermath of the Cold War, American intelligence caught three high-profiles Russian spies: Aldrich...- $45.00
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To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship--And the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin.On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a...- $41.99
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Vendor: Judy Batalion
The Light of Days Low Price CD: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Author: Judy BatalionISBN-10: 0063224836ISBN-13: 9780063224834Publisher: HarperAudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 5.74h x 5.25w x 1.49d- $19.99
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Vendor: Joe Weisberg
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we rethink our relationship.Coming of age in America in the 1970s and 80s, Joe Weisberg...- $40.00
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Vendor: Charlie Leduff
Detroit: An American Autopsy: An American Autopsy
Author: Charlie LeduffISBN-10: 1665159030ISBN-13: 9781665159036Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Tristeza de la Verdad: André Gide Regresa de Rusia
Historia de una ilusión compartida y una gran desilusión que no fue tolerada. El viaje de André Gide a Rusia en los años treinta es un recorrido por la accidentada geografía de la intolerancia: más allá de la URSS, por las patrias presentes y...- $19.99
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Vendor: Peter Ackroyd
Innovation: The History of England from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, from the Boer War to the Millenium Dome.Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession...- $44.95
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Vendor: David de Jong
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II--and how America allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, G?ther Quandt--patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that...- $41.99
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Vendor: Michael Meyer
Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia--a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his...- $41.99
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Vendor: Nury Turkel
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
A powerful memoir that lays bares China's repression of the Uyghur people by Nury Turkel, cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.In recent years, the People's Republic of...- $46.99
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Vendor: Jack Lowery
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
The powerful story of art collective Gran Fury--who fought back during the AIDS crisis through organizing, direct action, and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief to today's marginalized communities.By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in...- $45.00
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Vendor: Cameron McWhirter
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings. After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy...- $41.99
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Vendor: John Foxe
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Author: John FoxeISBN-10: 8200524590ISBN-13: 9798200524594Publisher: ChristianaudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2008Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $57.99
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Vendor: Noah Charney
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Author: Noah CharneyISBN-10: 8200099415ISBN-13: 9798200099412Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2010Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $41.99
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Vendor: Robert Coram
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Author: Robert CoramISBN-10: 179997667XISBN-13: 9781799976677Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 5.50h x 6.10w x 1.90d- $57.99
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Vendor: Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just societyOn a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York's Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom...- $32.95
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Vendor: Samuel A. Greene
Putin V. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia
Author: Samuel A. Greene, Graeme B. RobertsonISBN-10: 1665208651ISBN-13: 9781665208659Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $36.99
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Vendor: Ranulph Fiennes
Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
During the Golden Era of Exploration, Captain Robert Scott and his competitor Roald Amundsen conquered the unconquerable: Antarctica. Their perilous race to the South Pole claimed Scott's life and became the stuff of legend as well as endless scrutiny. In this compelling biography of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Andrew Kirtzman
Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor
A stunning and news-making biography detailing how America's Mayor, once beloved around the world, became a tragic figure, and the driving force behind Donald Trump's biggest scandals.Rudy Giuliani was the legendary prosecutor of Mafia bosses, corrupt politicians, and white-collar criminals. As mayor of New...- $49.99
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Vendor: Nino Strachey
Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
A moving and soul-stirring exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group that inspired and rejuvenated their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s Britain.In the years before...- $34.99
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