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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - Paperback

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by Richard Hofstadter (Author)Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shift...

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by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Author)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation."Karla's book sheds light on people's personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard."--Selena Gomez FINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIM...

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War - Paperback

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by James M. McPherson (Author)General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four lon...

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty - Paperback

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by Dan Jones (Author)"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." --Antonia Fraser From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be--by the author of Powers and Thrones. The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--eve...

Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Ernst Junger (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Introduction by)One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme--and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. It illuminates not only the horrors but ...

111 Places in Black Culture in Washington, DC That You Must Not Miss - Paperback

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by Lauri Williamson (Author), David Wardrick (Photographer)Author BiographyLauri Williamson is a licensed tour guide and entrepreneur. She grew up in New Jersey, moved to Washington to attend Howard University and fell in love with the city. She enjoys creating experiences that both educate and enlighten visitors to DC. David Wardrick, Digital Storyteller, is a lifelong resident of the Washington, DC region, where he focuses on visual media production. He is an award-winning photographer and ...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes Enlistment in the Union Army - Paperback

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by David J. Mason (Author)The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enlistment in the Union Army by David J. Mason is a riveting historical ﬁction novel that places its protagonist at the heart of the Civil War's most challenging and transformative moments. At only seventeen, Parson Sykes is an African-American youth navigating from the oppressive "contraband of war" status to becoming a soldier in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) as a member of the XXV Army Corps. It's important to note th...

The Centum Diary: One Year in the Life of a Civil War Union Soldier, Freeman Woodman, As Presented in the Geneva Republican from January to December 1

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Merrick (Murphy) Granger (Author) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 07, 2025

Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies - Hardcover

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by Natalie Prizel (Author)Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation and judgment, but this book shows how Victorian artists and authors imagined other ethical and optical relations. In an era in which aberrant, deformed, and disabled bodies proliferated--particularly those b...

Stephen King's Maine: A History & Guide - Paperback

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by Sharon Kitchens (Author)Much of Western Maine reads like a Stephen King novel. The dense dark woods and backcountry ponds. The century-old houses with gravel driveways and immense flower gardens, acres of farmland miles from a highway. Serpentine country roads dotted with farmstands, and picturesque main streets lined with battered pickups. Places where-especially during the dark and rainy days of October and November--things can get downright spooky. Author Sharon Kitchens identifies the ...

How the Gringos Stole Tequila: The Modern Age of Mexico's Most Traditional Spirit - Paperback

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by Chantal Martineau (Author)A definitive look at the evolution of North America's only truly native spiritAuthor BiographyA Montreal native based in New York, Chantal Martineau writes about wine, spirits, food, travel, and culture. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Food and Wine, Saveur, Surface, Departures, the Atlantic, Financial Times, and more. She is the coauthor, with Ron Cooper, of Finding Mezcal: A Journey into the Liquid Soul of Mexico. She lives in the Hudson Valley. Number of Pages:...

War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

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by James P. Delgado (Author)The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and Midway. Underwater exploration is increasingly discovering long-lost warships from the deepest parts of the ocean, revealing a vast undersea museum th...

Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger - Paperback

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by Roy K. Gibson (Author)Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales in which he liv...

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by Nancy Ellwood (Author)Bursting with delightful colors and bright illustrations, Local Baby: Maine engages babies' attention and encourages families to explore what makes their state so great. See the West Quoddy Head Light, hike Cadillac Mountain, canoe at Sebago Lake, and swim at Higgins Beach. Explore your state with this joyfully grabbable and wonderfully local board book that is sure to bring generations together. Number of Pages: 18 Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publ...

Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South - Hardcover

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by David Silkenat (Author)They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud as they hoed rice fields, and endured the sun and humidity as they planted and harvested the fields. By night, they clandestinely took to the woods and swamps to trap opossums and...

Fire Within: Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and the Gospel on Prayer - Paperback

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by Thomas DuBay (Author)This book is the fruit of Fr. Dubay's many years of study and experience in spiritual direction and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer--St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila--and the teaching of Sacred Scripture. But the teaching that Fr. Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant for every Christian and is based on the Gospel imperative of personal pra...

The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Thucydides (Author), Rex Warner (Translator), M. I. Finley (Introduction by)Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into ...

Reconstruction: A Concise History - Hardcover

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by Allen C. Guelzo (Author)The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy and allowed repressive measures such as the "black codes," woul...

The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's Maids for Virginia - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Potter (Author)Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger -- from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: Six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear these and other perils were made to the fifty-six young women who left their homes and boarded ships in England in 1621, nearly fifteen years after Jamestown's founding, is not know...

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew - Paperback

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by Bart D. Ehrman (Author)The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human butnot divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they ...

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist - Paperback

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by Stephen Rogers Peck (Author)Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions. The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study...

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by Diane Stanley (Author), Diane Stanley (Illustrator)Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and bravery, fierce determination, and tragic martyrdom. Diane Stanley's extraordinary gift to present historical information in ...

Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington - Paperback

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by John F. Wukovits (Author)The turbulent life of Gregory Pappy Boyington, the top U.S. Marine ace of the Pacific, is captured in memorable detail by the acclaimed author of One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle of Tarawa. Wukovits pulls no punches in describing the controversial World War II fighter pilot, who was a hero to some, and a villain to others in the Corps. Boyington was a little of each as this biography of the legendary but complex figure shows. The book details the Marine's early ...

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism - Hardcover

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by Denise Murrell (Editor)A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a ...

Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam - Paperback

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by Thomas J. Cutler (Author)The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless courage, they maneuvered their aging, makeshift craft along shallow coastal waters and twisting inland waterways to search out the enemy. In this moving tribute to their contributions and sacrifices, Tom Cutler records their dramatic story as only a participant could. His own Vietnam experience enables him to add a str...

Mahan on Naval Strategy: Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan - Paperback

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by Rear Adm Alfred Thayer Mahan Usn (Author), John B. Hattendorf (Introduction by)Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the greatest naval theorists of all time. An original contributor to the study of strategic thinking, Alfred Thayer Mahan presented concepts and theories in The Influence of Seapower and his other writings that provide guidance in developing strategies to deal with the maritime challenges of the t...

Fallujah Awakens: Marines, Sheikhs, and the Battle Against Al Qaeda - Paperback

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by Bill Ardolino (Author)Fallujah, the cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. The violence peaked again two years later when American Marines and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Now in paperback, Fallujah Awakens--widely praised for presenting a b...

Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of Macvsog - Paperback

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by Robert M. Gillespie (Author)During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA. This secret organization was committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major build-up of U.S. forces in 1965 and also fielded a division-sized element of So...

A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System - Paperback

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by John S. Milloy (Author), Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Foreword by)"I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry."--Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school."--N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948) For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian re...

Panoramic Pop-Ups: Dinosaurs - Hardcover

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by David Hawcock (Author)Come face-to-face with 10 amazing dinosaurs in this dynamic pop-up book full of fascinating facts! Meet prehistoric creatures like the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus as they burst from the pages in this exciting pop-up book! Children will learn the unique dinosaur names, physical traits, and behaviors of some of their favorite dinos. Young readers can even examine the fossil illustrations that make up these majestic creatures. Perfect for young paleon...

Nine Years Among the Indians: (Expanded, Annotated) - Paperback

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by J. Marvin Hunter (Editor), Herman Lehmann (Author)In a real-life version of Little Big Man comes the Indian-captive narrative of Herman Lehmann. Captured as a boy in 1870, he lived for nine years among the Apaches and Comanches. Long considered one of the best captivity stories from the period, Lehmann came to love the people and the life. Only through the gentle persuasion of famed Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, was Lehmann convinced to remain with his white family once he was returned to...

A Rebel in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (Annotated) - Paperback

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by John H. Lewis (Author)This 2020 edition contains newly unearthed details about the author and others mentioned in the narrative.John Lewis fought for Virginia in the Confederate army at Malvern Hill, Antietam, and elsewhere. But it was at Gettysburg that the most searing experience of his wartime career took place.He charged with Pickett's Division behind General Lewis Armistead across that now-fabled field towards the center of the Union line. With great pride and seemingly no lasting bit...