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Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar WildeThis selection of Oscar Wilde's writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today...
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Destroyers on the Rocks: Seven Ships LostAn in-depth look at the investigation into what caused the greatest disaster in the history of the United States Navy.Author: Spencer DuckworthPublisher: Cypress HousePublished: 06/27/2005Pages: 322Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.14w x 0.84dISBN: 9781879384552This title is only available via back order
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Around the World in Fewer Than 80 Days: The Journeys of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth BislandIn 1889, journalist Nellie Bly challenged herself to turn the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days into a reality. Elizabeth Bisland followed, and single-handedly put Cosmopolitan on the map. This book combines the full narratives of both Bly and...
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Donald Gregory's History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland from A.D. 1493 to A.D. 1625 with a Brief Introductory Sketch from A.D. 80 to AThe sixteenth century was the great age of the Highland clans. This history begins in 1493, when the Lord of the Isles lost his authority as a virtually independent ruler of the Hebrides and West Coast of Scotland. The next century saw struggles for...
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Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American ReparationsThe story of how nearly 100,000 Americans achieved reparations and an official apology for one of the most shameful episodes in US history."Redress gives us an insider's step-by-step view of how a bold and determined group of Japanese Americans achieved an unprecedented goal that,...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes...
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIAA "rip-roaring" (Steve Coll), "staggeringly well-researched" (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, "electric with revelations" (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden, from the bestselling author of Code Girls...
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Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so...
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51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the NazisThis book brings to light, through the use of actual historic documnets, the desservice that the Zionist did to Jews before and during the Holocaust.Author: Lenni BrennerPublisher: Barricade BooksPublished: 03/16/2010Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781569804339This title is only available...
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The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." --Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW--its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission--told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary...
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American SouthAuthor: Peter CozzensPublisher: VintagePublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.94dISBN: 9780593082706
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The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against LincolnFINALIST FOR THE MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION - LONGLISTED FOR THE J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE - A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways Canadians were involved in...
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Milton Friedman: The Last ConservativeAn Economist Best Book of 2023 One of The New York Times' 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg Finalist for the 2024 Hayek Book Prize "Wherever you sit on the political...
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family SecretsA New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in "a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history" (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) "Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a...
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Freedom's CapThe history of the modern United States Capitol, the iconic seat of the U.S. government, is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the majestic new building rose above Washington's skyline, battles over slavery and secession were ripping the country apart. Ground...
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Tiananmen SquareAn epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square student protests, for readers of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Night Tiger.As a child in Beijing in the 1970s, Lai lives...
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Led Zeppelin: The Biography"In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling." --PEOPLEFrom the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguable the greatest rock...
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Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970sWhether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the Hippie Dictionary entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "Ceasar Chavez," and "Black Power Movement," plus...
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Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold WarBy 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and...
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America's Top SecretsSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE - Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit? "A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of...
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