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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It BackA provocative exploration of the forces that keep us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in government "Dunkelman summarizes the history perfectly." --David Brooks, The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times - The...
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Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never LearnedA New York Times bestseller - More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold!"Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!" --People magazineFrom the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis...
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Polio: An American StoryHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert...
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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey WestIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children...
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto...
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market EraThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that,...
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The I-5 KillerThe terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. He was drafted by the Green...
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in VietnamEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some...
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War IPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - "A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.'"--Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the...
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The Florentine Entanglement: A Novel of the Cold War"The Americans meets Paul Vidich's An Honorable Man!" -Cam Torrens, bestselling author of the Tyler Zahn suspense seriesArt student Eleanor has been trapped in fascist Italy since 1939, forced into hiding, camouflaging her identity. At war's end, she meets intelligence officer Talbot who's captivated...
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Some Came by Ship: 6 Years Later, Germany 1939Based on the true story of the S.S. St. Louis, Some Came By Ship - 6 Years Later, Germany 1939, revisits a world on the brink of terror. As the S.S. St. Louis leaves the Port of Hamburg in May 1939, carrying Jewish refugees...
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"First published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington's My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author's adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains, but also sought to set the record straight on her second husband's involvement in the Fetterman...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow"[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative." -Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale UniversityA Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined."You hear nothing!" his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally Finkelstein...
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NightA new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents...
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NightA new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents...
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Risk, Resilience, and Redemption: A Miraculous Holocaust Survival StoryWhat is it like to have lived through six years of Holocaust slave labor and survive? Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were torn from their families and communities and cast into Hell... Adolf Hitler was the devil that presided over Germany's descent into madness...
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Postwar Europe: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its economies severely damaged and millions of its people facing malnutrition, its political systems shaken if not destroyed. Yet three decades later...
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The First World War: A Very Short IntroductionBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state...
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAgatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays,...
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short IntroductionJorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges's life...
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