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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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A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, Teacher Guide Book
The Teacher Guide Book on CD for use with A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, will help in structuring lessons, tests, and student activities.Author: Richard Melzer, Robert J. Torrez, Sandra K. MathewsISBN-10: 0826349048ISBN-13: 9780826349040Publisher: University of New Mexico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.01lbsSize:...- $10.00
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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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Vendor: Mark Lee Gardner
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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Vendor: Tracy Borman
Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
The author of The Private Lives of the Tudors illuminates the almost thousand-year history of the British monarchy.Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, 41 kings and queens...- $29.99
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Vendor: Dov Forman
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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Vendor: Jerry Borrowman
Why We Fought Lib/E: Inspiring Stories of Resisting Hitler and Defending Freedom
The struggle to combat the Nazis during World War II encompassed front lines far beyond conventional battlefields. In a panoramic and compelling account, author Jerry Borrowman shares seven largely untold stories of people who undertook extraordinary efforts to defeat the Third Reich at enormous...- $80.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Shay
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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Vendor: Carl Reinecke
Books That Made Us: The Companion to the ABC TV Series
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carl Reinecke
Books That Made Us: The Companion to the ABC TV Series
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the...- $29.99
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Vendor: Mari K. Eder
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line Lib/E: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of fifteen unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during...- $97.00
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Vendor: Samuel Moyn
Humane Lib/E: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who's president...- $125.00
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Vendor: Winfred Rembert
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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Vendor: Scott Mann
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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Vendor: Andrew Liptak
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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Vendor: Troy Senik
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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Vendor: Rob Roth
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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Vendor: Tony Brooks
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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Vendor: Kevin Cook
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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Vendor: Amy Sohn
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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Vendor: Jeffrey Orens
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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Vendor: Clyde W. Ford
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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Vendor: Greg Dawson
Alias Anna Lib/E: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias Anna) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna's son).She...- $46.99
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Vendor: Linda Hirshman
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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Vendor: Adrian Miller
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating it; they're...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jane Ridley
George V Lib/E: 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...- $111.99
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Vendor: Imani Perry
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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Vendor: Neal Thompson
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine, created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics, and launched the Kennedy...- $41.99
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Vendor: Alison O'Leary
Attacked at Sea: A True World War II Story of a Family's Fight for Survival
Attacked at Sea is a riveting account of survival at sea, book four in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the bestseller The Finest Hours.On May 19, 1942, during World War II, a German submarine, a U-boat, in the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Steven Nadler
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
The story of one of the most important--and incendiary--books in Western historyWhen it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--godless, full of abominations, a book forged in hell ... by the devil himself. Religious and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Philip S. Foner (Editor)
The Black Panthers Speak
From its founding in 1966 to contemporary attempts to censure its history and revise its significance, the Black Panther party has aroused fear, hope, pride, vilification, and government-sponsored oppression. The trials of Huey Newton, the Chicago Eight, and the Panther 21 made it enormously...- $29.99
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Vendor: Janine Di Giovanni
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets
The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland.Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and...- $40.00
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Vendor: Mike Guardia
Foxbat Tales: The Mig-25 in Combat
From the Middle East to the Iron Curtain ... the definitive combat history of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25.July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25--purportedly capable...- $24.95
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Vendor: R. Richard Wagner
We've Been Here All Along: Wisconsin's Early Gay History
The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We've Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin's gay history from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout...- $34.95
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Vendor: Edward E. Baptist
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...- $55.00
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