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Old 300: Gone To TexasA broad and dramatic saga of the American westward migration to Texas between 1817 and 1825, and finalist for the 2015 Will Rogers Medallion Award for best frontier nonfiction, this is the story of 300 families who made their way from all across the...
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Not Your Mama's Melting Pot"From jump, there was such sonic, emotional, and intellectual drive to these poems, that I couldn't resist-why would I want to-the pull of Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's vision and sensibility. Verve and élan are words I might use, but they lack sufficient verve and élan....
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Nothing Personal: The Back Office of WarEvery day on the news we are shown images of war and destruction. This coincides with global expenditure on arms increasing year after year. However, we are rarely afforded a glimpse behind the curtains of the global arms business.Photographer Nikita Teryoshin travelled to 16...
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our WorldMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the...
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No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776When news reached Parliament of the Boston radicals' destruction of the Royal East India Company's tea, it passed the Coercive Acts, a collection of punitive measures designed to rein in that insubordinate seaport town. The Coercive Acts unleashed a political firestorm as communities from...
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Niagara: Your Guide to the Falls and BeyondThis book takes readers beyond the lights and the sounds of the City of the Falls to venture to lesser-known but equally fascinating sites that abound across the region. The first-known European to gaze upon Niagara Falls was a Jesuit priest and explorer named...
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Museum of Early American ToolsAuthor: Eric SloanePublisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 01/12/1985Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.35w x 0.43dISBN: 9780345326119
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Murder & Mayhem in TombstoneDesire, Deceit and DebaucheryTombstone was a wild place during Arizona's territorial era, with violence and criminal activity running rampant. It wasn't just the Earp brothers' iconic gunfight at the O.K. Corral that left behind a trail of death and destruction--lawlessness and vigilante justice reigned...
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Muhammad - The Last Prophet: A Model for All Time: A Model For All TimeMuhammad, The Last Prophet presents a comprehensive account of the life of the last Prophet - Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). This translation allows young English-speaking Muslims to benefit from Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi's renowned Islamic scholarship. The work covers the...
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More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican BorderlandsAuthor: Sabine F. CadeauPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/04/2024Pages: 325Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9781108931526
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Moms In The Military Raising A Child While Serving In The Armed ForcesCheck out this American Military Writers Society Silver Medal Winner.As much as thirty percent of the women on active duty and almost thirty-five percent of those serving in the Reserve and Guard are raising their children while serving in their chosen branches. That was...
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MMM... Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We EatA tasty oral history In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history lab. Together they embarked on a journey around Manitoba, gathering stories about the province's food and the people who make,...
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Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesIn Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith. Despite their sectarian differences, both groups of...
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Media ConsolidationOver the past decade, the number of companies that control American media has shrunken significantly. This has resulted in a number of broadcast news media, television channels, streaming sites, print media, social media sites, and search engines being owned by the same companies in...
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Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United StatesAn expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that...
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Maserati 450s: The Bazooka from ModenaThis book retraces the saga of the ten Maserati 450S "Bazookas." The Maserati 450S, also called Tipo 54 in the factory codification, was the fastest and most powerful of the Maseratis built to face the archrival Ferrari in the World Sports Car Championship of...
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Making Sense of Somali History: (Volume Two)The collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of civil war drastically transformed the socio-political landscape in Somalia. Somalis reverted to the pre-colonial state of affairs and sought refuge in their clan attachments. Local authorities were contested by the...
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Making History: My Life as a Scottish Metal DetectoristWith its long and turbulent past, Scotland is a country filled with history. But sometimes the land can offer up fascinating details about life in bygone ages, for someone with the skill and the patience to find them.Alan Baxter has been behind some of...
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Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's MasterpieceDespite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or simply the Principia, remains a mystery for many people. Few of even the most intellectually curious readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually looked in the Principia or appreciated its contents.Mathematician Colin...
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Magical History Tour Vol. 16: Trench Warfare - An Infernal FuryJoin modern-day siblings Annie and Nico as they learn about the horror of trench warfare. Plunge into World War I and discover the damages caused by the "war to end all wars." The latest addition to this pocket-sized educational graphic novel series!Author: Fabrice ErrePublisher:...
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