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Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary KayAuthor: Mary Lisa GavenasPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 08/26/2026Pages: 708Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.40dISBN: 9781420538182
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Ore and Empire: Conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino RealPhotography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside present-day Mexico to southern Wyoming. For centuries the Spanish Empire's conscripted laborers...
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Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Famed Selous ScoutsThere is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heart and soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid...
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John Foster Dulles: Apostle of American EmpireA compelling biography of John Foster Dulles, one of the most complex and underexamined architects of US foreign policy.John Foster Dulles is a towering yet misunderstood figure in American and international history. Best known as secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower and as...
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The Maginot Line: A New HistoryAn authoritative and original history of the Maginot Line that reshapes our understanding of interwar France and the events of 1940 The Maginot Line was a marvel of 1930s engineering. The huge forts, up to eighty meters underground, contained hospitals, modern kitchens, telephone exchanges,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany"One of the most important works of history of our time." --The New York Times A modern classic and the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II by the foreign correspondent who saw firsthand how...
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174The Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. The Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, in...
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Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern UniversityOttis Lock Award, Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association2019 Summerlee Book Prize, Center for History and Culture of Southeast TexasTexas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as...
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Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPheeAn annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages....
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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica RevoltA radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms...
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Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar AmericaHow suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church. The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council,...
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Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked BaltimoreTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut...
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The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer NorthwestHow a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war--the War on Illahee--to seize...
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Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial MarriageA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled...
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A New History of IowaThe state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It's thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely...
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Summer of LoveAuthor: Kerri MaherPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 07/29/2026Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9781420537123
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Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic CityA comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city...
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Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United StatesHow a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known "Indian wars," the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to...
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Transforming Darkness Into Light: A Holocaust Survivor's Lessons in Fighting HateIn 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with most of the Jews from his village in Poland. His mother's last words to him exhorted Phillip to "be somebody" because "the...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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