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Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson Lankford (Author)A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative possibilities to history. Cry Havoc! recounts in riveting detail the small quirks of timing, character, and place that influenced the huge trajectory o...

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Report copyright infringementby Randy Hopkins (Author), Ying-Ying Chang (Author)This book is about Iris Chang and her world-changing influence. At age 29, Iris, a Chinese American, wrote the wildly popular and deeply controversial book The Rape of Nanking - exposing the atrocity now known as the Nanjing Massacre which followed the Japanese Imperial Army's 1937 capture of Nanking, China. She later wrote another massively researched book, The Chinese in America. In 2004, at the age of 36, Iris ...

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Watts (Author)"Utterly fascinating--a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."--Robert MacFarlane Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal archive, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a definitive, revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man. James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining ...

The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Strobel (Author)As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and community. With the help of his niece, Katie Seigenthaler, and his colleague, Amy Frogge, Strobel began to dictate The Kingdom of the Poor. He wrote, "Mark Twain, the great American folk hero and writer, has said, 'The two most important days o...

Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Cordery (Author)Simon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips to show them off. In those heady early days, he met national business and political leaders and hired the first Pullman porters. Albert and Geor...

King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

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Report copyright infringementby Brooke Barbier (Author)A concise and highly readable biography...[Hancock's] legacy is very much worth our remembering. --Wall Street Journal "King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its impressive scholarship lightly. It deftly explains the wider forces that unraveled the colonists' close bonds with the mother country... The book also features an almost tactile account of what it was like to live in Boston in the eighteenth centur...

Bud Hardcastle The Truth Tracker: The Truth Tracker: The Truth Tracker

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Report copyright infringementby Rosanne Priddy (Author) Number of Pages: 818 Dimensions: 1.69 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: July 31, 2025

A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi

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Report copyright infringementby Carlo Greppi (Author), Howard Curtis (Translator)'Nobody knows how much I owe that man', Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Auschwitz. 'I could never repay him.' Levi was referring to Lorenzo Perrone, who - at great personal risk - smuggled food, letters and clothing to Levi and other prisoners. The soup might contain sparrows' wings, prune stones, or even fragments of pulped newspaper, but it provided Levi with the 500 extra calories he ne...

Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Twigg (Author)Author Biography Alan Twigg is a veteran journalist and author of 20 previous books. He also has his country's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada, and recently received an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University. He became the first writer to gain the trust of Robin Vrba (Vrba's wife) after building a website about Rudolf Vrba (rudolfvrba.com). A previous biography he wrote, Moon Madness, profiles a courageous Norweigian-born...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Roth (Author)Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States. Blending critical analysis with a personal account of growing up in his father's bookstore, and connecting both to larger forces that helped shape Jewish and American book retailing in the...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Rich Dickinson (Author)Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with? someone once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. In her early thirties, she took to the woods with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote Maine backcountry. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives, and these magnificent books are the result. They are still captivating readers a half-century late...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Chandler-Stephens (Author)I believe every person has a divine assignment. Mine is to tell their stories." With grace, grit, and spiritual insight, Sheila Chandler Stephens invites readers on a seven-decade journey through Atlanta's most transformative years-not from the governor's mansion or city hall, but from front porches, church pews, and classroom chalkboards in the heart of the city's most iconic Black neighborhoods.Born in Vine City in 1950, Sheil...

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Report copyright infringementby Reggie K. Smith (Author)BAKER'S LIST of "Colored" Inventors highlights and puts within your grasp more than 400 African American inventions. This book presents a rare and invaluable list of African American inventions that shaped industries, revolutionized everyday life, and established a foundation for subsequent generations of thinkers and creators-curated from the historical records of Henry E. Baker, Assistant Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent Office. Thro...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Newman (Author)The years of the Great Depression were a glorious time for women's amateur golf in America, and Marion Miley was one of the most dominant players of that era. A Kentucky State Amateur Champion at the age of seventeen and a three-time member of the U.S. Curtis Cup team, she won over 80 regional and national tournaments, the exploits of her remarkable career well-documented in newspapers of the time. MARION follows her remarkable life, ...

At the Threshold of the Image: From Narcissus to Virtual Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Pinotti (Author)An exploration of the impact of immersive experiences on visual practices from cave painting to virtual reality In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Andrea Pinotti explores the impacts of a desire that has motivated human beings since prehistory: the desire to enter an image. He proposes that over the centuries, every culture has tried to realize this wish with whatever visual resources were available at the time, and today's virtual ...

Hidden History of Walt Disney World - Paperback

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by Foxx Nolte (Author) Author Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story as vivid and bizarre as any. It is a history of corporate politics, urban planning, crazy ambitions, and failed schemes. The Hidden History of Walt Disney World takes you on a journey t...

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars - Paperback

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by Dava Sobel (Author)From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomyA New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science FridayNominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A joy to read." --The Wall Street Journal In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory beg...

When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Waller Rogers (Author)During the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and abducting Northern free Blacks. Northerners began to realize that the Slave Power would not rest until slavery was allowed to ...

Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West

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Report copyright infringementby Michael C. Steiner (Editor)"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalis...

Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

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Report copyright infringementby Martin J. Siegel (Author)2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize FinalistIn Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Platt Thomas (Author), Romaine Proctor (Illustrator)Lincoln's New Salem is a historical book written by Benjamin Platt Thomas. The book explores the life and times of Abraham Lincoln during his early years in New Salem, Illinois. It provides a detailed account of Lincoln's experiences and the people he encountered during his time in New Salem, including his work as a store clerk, his involvement in local politics, and his relationships with the communi...

Through the Fires: Women in War: Women in War

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Report copyright infringementby Nawal Halawa (Editor)The women of Gaza are the invisible force keeping this nation alive. They are heroines of a different kind names not written in battle reports, yet every surviving home, every smiling child, and every resilient school bears the mark of a woman who resisted with all she had: her patience, her tears, and her humble bread. In this book, we open the pages of these stories to write about women who did not seek heroism but were made symbols of re...

Byzantium: Economy, Society, Institutions 600-1100 - Hardcover

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by James Howard-Johnston (Author)Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field of Byzantine studies, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power. It is only by analysing its economic, social, and institutional structures that this strange medieval...

The Colossus of Rhodes: Archaeology of a Lost Wonder - Hardcover

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by Nathan Badoud (Author)The Colossus of Rhodes is both the most famous and the least well-known monument of Ancient Greece. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the World, this bronze statue of the god Helios, thirty-four metres in height, was created by the sculptor Chares of Lindos between the years 295 and 283 BC, only to be destroyed by an earthquake in 227 BC. The legends that have spread after its collapse seem so strange and contradictory that, from an archaeological point of view, it ...

Glory, Grit and Greatness: Great Americans Fading from Our Memory

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Carr (Author)Discover the Grit Behind the Glory of AmericaJoin author Stephen Carr on a journey through America's forgotten past in Glory, Grit and Greatness: Great Americans Fading From Our Memory. Bringing history to life with vivid prose, the author has crafted a memorable tribute to extraordinary Americans whose names and deeds have faded with time, but whose legacy of courage, genius and raw grit lives on. From the industrialist who transformed the...

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Report copyright infringementby Karunkar T. Nair (Author)Time Is Running Out: Tales of a Malayali from Mombasa by Karunkar T NairA remarkable true story of migration, resilience and family bonds that spans continents and generations.Born in pre-independence India, Karunkar T Nair's life would take him on an extraordinary journey from his ancestral home in Kerala to the vibrant coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya, and eventually to the industrial towns of England. In this engaging memoir, Nair refl...

Fourteen Battle Stars - USS Hughes DD410 - The WWII Destroyer That Survived The Pacific War, A Kamikaze Attack & Two Atomic Bombs

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hurst (Author)The remarkable story of the USS Hughes DD-410 begins in the Atlantic long before America was at war. It was sent to attack German submarines and the Pocket Battleship Bismarck. After Pearl Harbor, the USS Hughes sailed into the Pacific and fought against the Empire of Japan in almost every single battle of the war. She was alongside numerous American aircraft carriers when they were sunk in battle, including the USS Yorktown at Midway ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elie Wiesel (Author)Author BiographyElie Wiesel was the author of more than 50 books, both fiction and nonfiction. He was a recipient of the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor's Grand Croix, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University from 1976 until his death in 2016. Wiesel was th...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Desmond Greaves (Author)The Life and Times of James Connolly by C Desmond Greaves is the standard by which other accounts of the Irish revolutionary's days are measured.James Connolly is Ireland's national hero. Trade union leader, socialist party organiser and founder of the working class Citizen Army he was a key leader of the 1916 Rising and was executed by the British.This new edition, edited by Greaves' literary executor, Anthony Coughlan, is published ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Hutton (Author)William Hutton's "The Battle of Bosworth Field" meticulously recounts the pivotal clash between Richard III and Henry, Earl of Richmond, on August 22, 1485. Published in 1788, this historical account details the movements of both armies, offering a plan of the battlefield that allows readers to visualize the engagement. Hutton explores the battle's profound consequences, examining the fall, treatment, and character of Richard III, the las...

Carlos Lehder: The Rise and Fall of a Smuggler King

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Report copyright infringementby Mafia Library (Author)From a turbulent childhood to becoming one of the most powerful and flamboyant drug traffickers in history, this gripping biography explores the life of Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the infamous Medellín Cartel.Follow his journey from early struggles and a violent upbringing to his transformation inside a U.S. prison, where a fateful alliance with George Jung would launch him into the cocaine trade. As Lehder rises through the criminal und...

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Report copyright infringementby Kostya Kennedy (Author)"Better than any previous account. Kennedy leaves no doubt about Rose's greatness as a player or his guilt as a gambler." --Allen Barra, The Boston Globe Pete Rose had 4,256 hits in his Major League career. But despite being MLB's all-time leader in base hits, Rose isn't in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Banished from the game in August 1989 amid accusations of gambling, he was ruled ineligible for Cooperstown. Today, the question of whether...