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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

By: Nyiszli, Miklos

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is ... more

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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

By: Talbot, David

Brothers begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently de ... more

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American Nightmare

By Packard, Jerrold M.

In this important work, acclaimed historian Jerrold M. Packard examines an appalling stain on American history: the laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." For the hundred years following the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under this system of legali ...

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After the Prophet

By Hazleton, Lesley

British-born LeSLeY HAZLeTON is a veteran Middle east journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, esquire, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and other publications. The author of several books on Middle east politics, religi ...

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A Short History of the Korean War

By Stokesbury, James L.

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Big House

By Cox, Stephen

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Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

By Gitlin, Jay

Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American expansion ...

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Aristotle, Emotions, and Education

By Kristjansson, Kristjan

In a formidable display of boundarybreaking scholarship, Kristján Kristjánsson analyzes and dispels misconceptions about Aristotle's views on morality, emotions and education that abound in the current literature ' including claims of the emotional intelligence theorists t ...

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Anamnesis and the Eucharist: Contemporary Anglican Approaches

By Gittoes, Julie

engaging with contemporary Anglican theology of the eucharist through the concept of anamnesis, this book seeks to enrich the Church's understanding of transformation and mission. eucharistic theology finds its place in the midst of much contemporary Anglican theology but li ...

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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Kinzer, Stephen

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generati ...

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A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of

By Kern, Stephen

This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of european and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels inc ...

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Corporate, Public and Global Governance: The G8 Contribution

By Kirton, John J.

The intensifying pace of globalization has led to a questioning of the traditional approaches to governance at the corporate, national and international levels. To explore this issue, this volume focuses on: the most desirable forms of corporate governance; the most appropri ...

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Birth of the Bravest

By Costello, Augustine E.

They are called "The Bravest." They are the New York City Fire Department, ordinary men who put themselves on the line every day to save lives, and this is a chronicle of their early history.
Birth of the Bravest traces the history of New York firefighting from ...

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The Einstein File

By Jerome, Fred

For nearly a quarter century, from einstein's arrival in the United States in 1933 until his death in 1955, Hoover's FBI, with help from several other federal agencies, collected more than 1800 pages of "derogatory information" in an effort to undermine einstein's influen ...

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Visions of War

By Perlmutter, David D. / Perlmutter

From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth-hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most persistent genre of images human beings have created. In fact, human beings are the only creature who engage in these two activities -- orga ...

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The Tailor-King

By Arthur, Anthony

He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but for nearly two years Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over their powerful enemies, the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as a new King David, the chari ...

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Only Angels Fly

By Hope, Alexander

In the first years of her life, four-year old Sandra has endured TB, the death of her mother, and the abandonment of her father. It is 1938 and Hitler runs Sandra's homeland and much of the homeland of Germany's neighbors. Sandra is raised in the safety of her Grandmother's ...

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The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

By Grant, Ulysses S.

From the Western frontier to the battlefields of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Franklin, Petersburg, and Richmond, Grant saw the war from the front lines and made the decisions that affected lives on a day-to-day basis. His writings provide a revealing look into the life of th ...

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Southern Invincibility

By Sword, Wiley

"The War feeling is swelling and surging like the waves of the sea. Who can resist a whole people, thoroughly aroused, brave to rashness, fighting for their existence?" -- The Review (Charlotte, Virginia), April 19, 1861
Southern pride -- the notion that the South ...

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Wanna Live Forever?

By Carlton, Don "Slim

This first hand account by this WWII machine-gunner will transport the reader through over three months of harrowing experiences. From the sound of a sniper's bullet impacting the man he is conversing with to the helpless emotion as he listens to a friend confess to his prem ...

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The Templars

By Haag, Michael

The first history of the legendary knights since the Vatican momentously released the records of their trial and exoneration Who were the Templars? What was the secret of their wealth and power? Why did the pope and the king of France act to destroy them? The Knights Templar ...

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In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal

By Hyland, William G.

The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings---and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American popular culture that it is not only widely accepted but taught to stud ...

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D-Day

By Beevor, Antony

The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945
From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the w ...

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Against a Dark Background

By Banks, Iain M.

Against a Dark Background ...

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Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team

By Steinbeck, John

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath-and at the height of the American war effort-John Steinbeck, one of the m ...

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A Dutch Teenager During Wartime

By Thomsen, Grietje

When I now shall write about the five years of war from 1940 - 1945 it is with a big hope that neither I nor any of my children shall experience war again. But at the same time, when I look back, I also gained wisdom from these horrible years. My generation, we who experien ...

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1898

By Traxel, David

In this remarkable evocation of the American past, David Traxel chronicles the extraordinary events of 1898--a year without rival in United States history for its extravagant adventure and far-reaching significance. Displaying a rare combinati ...

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Armed Conflict

By Steed, Brian

What challenges will America face in armed conflicts of the future and how will we prepare for them? National security depends upon the ability of the military to 'predict' the future nature of war. Despite the difficulty in making such predictions, one must remember: nation ...

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"Investigate Everything"

By Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr.

"Investigate everything" ...

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American Commando

By Wukovits, John

Before the Green Berets'Before the Navy SeALs'Before the Army Rangers'There was the Long Patrol. November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history. Lieutenant Colonel evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades'and see ...

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Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July - August, 1943

By D'Este, Carlo

Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning and ...

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Crisis in the Pacific

By Astor, Gerald

From the depths of defeat...

On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.
With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas M ...

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Spy

By Wise, David

Spy ...

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Wanna Live Forever?

By Carlton, Don "Slim

This first hand account by this WWII machine-gunner will transport the reader through over three months of harrowing experiences. From the sound of a sniper's bullet impacting the man he is conversing with to the helpless emotion as he listens to a friend confess to his prem ...

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Hitler's Panzers

By Showalter, Dennis

A fascinating account of Nazi Germany's armored forces by the author of Patton and Rommel.
Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the form ...

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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

By Bradley, James

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage ...

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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

By Melton, H. Keith

Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, ...

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WW1 at Sea: The Pocket Essential Guide

By Carolan, Victoria

Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of the sea. In 1914 at th ...

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Men at War

By Fawcett, Bill

epic battles-as seen through the eyes of the men who fought them.
From Gettysburg to D-Day, history's most momentous battles have been recounted to the world on a grand scale. This book, for the first time ever, looks at man's most epic battles from the point ...

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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

By Biddle, Tami Davis

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 ...

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Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney's One-Man Stand Against the Japanese in World War II

By Johnson, Forrest Bryant

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery. But his story has never been told...until now. This is the story of John McKinney, who, on the morning of May 11, 1945, received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. That day, McKinney retu ...

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The Magnificent Bastards

By Nolan, Keith

On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines' Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as "the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from thi ...

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A Shining Thread of Hope

By Thompson, Kathleen / Hine, Darlene Clark

At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African A ...

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Civil War Wives

By Berkin, Carol

Carol Berkin received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is cur ...

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1959: The Year Everything Changed

By Kaplan, Fred

Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year everything Changed
"An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and scien ...

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A Bright and Guilty Place

By Rayner, Richard

A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul
Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organiz ...

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1898

By Traxel, David

In this remarkable evocation of the American past, David Traxel chronicles the extraordinary events of 1898--a year without rival in United States history for its extravagant adventure and far-reaching significance. Displaying a rare combinati ...

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A Wilderness So Immense

By Kukla, Jon

The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches ...

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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the

By Tucker, Todd

On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been ...

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American Confluence

By Aron, Stephen

A bold new history of Missouri--the region where the American West begins. ...

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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and

By Woodward, Hobson

A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and ...

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Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century Americ

By Gordon, Colin

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America ...

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CliffsQuickReview® U.S. History II

By Soifer, Paul

CliffsQuickReview® U.S. History II ...

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Wall Street

By Fraser, Steve

Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it ...

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The Story of Georgia's Boundaries: A Meeting of History and Geography

By Morton, William J

Georgia's boundaries are more than mere lines on a map. They reflect centuries of wars and treaties, political maneuvering and litigation, heroic actions and human error. From the arrival of europeans in the New World through legislative resolutions in 2008, this book recou ...

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There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence

By Cunningham, David

Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. examin ...

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Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory

By Zimmerman, Jonathan

Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory ...

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Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

By Temkin, Moshik

Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial ...

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The Kingdom of New York

By New York Observer, The

For the last two decades, The New York Observer has documented the Platinum Age of New York, when the city's new elite rose and dominated society, media, business, and culture with an amusing arrogance that redefined the power capital of the world. The Kingdom of New York ja ...

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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

By Fleming, Thomas

A compelling, intimate look at the founders--George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison--and the women who played essential roles in their livesWith his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming ...

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A Shining Thread of Hope

By Thompson, Kathleen / Hine, Darlene Clark

At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African A ...

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Who Shot JFK?

By Ramsay, Robin

After nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, is there anything left to say about the assassination of President John F Kennedy? Hell, yes. The Ke ...

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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

By Nyiszli, Miklos

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available...more ...

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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By Kinzer, Stephen

This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal C...more ...

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Avoiding Project Disaster: Titanic Lessons for IT Executives

By Kozak-Holland, Mark

Imagine you are in one of Titanic's lifeboats, drifting away from the sinking ship. As you look back, you wonder how such a disaster could have happened... Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster waiting to happen as a result of the compromises made during its construction pr...more ...

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Amazing Stories of Female Executions

By Abbott, Geoffrey

In these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber the fairer sex get it in the neck. You have been warned. From the Yorkshire Witch, who was accused of murder when a potion for good health turned out to be fatal, to the woman who survived the gallows and too...more ...

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Closing the Ring

By Churchill, Winston

The fifth volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. The fate of the Allies turn with the Normandy invasion after Hitler's defeat at Stalingrad. For the first time, the end of the war with an Allied victory seems possible. Churchill wart...more ...

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> Woodward, Bob

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Aligned Yellow Bricks

By Woodward, Bob

Aligned Yellow Bricks demonstrates the critical need for strategic vision when creating and maintaining balanced organizational structures and aligned workplace activities. Author Bob Woodward illustrates the effectiveness of this approach by citing descriptive exampl...more ...

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