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MacArthur Study Bible-NKJV-Large Print - Bonded Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)Dr. John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word. From the moment you pick it up, you'll know it's a classic. The MacArthur Study Bible is perfect for serious study. Dr. John MacArthur has collected his pastoral and scholarly work of more than 35 years to create the most comprehensive study Bible available. No other study Bible does such a thorough job of explaining the historical co...

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom - Paperback

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by David F. Walker (Author), Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator)A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book w...

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

$23.00

by Steve Coll (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction - A New York Times bestseller "The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying." --The New York Review of Books From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan. To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who...

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy - Paperback

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by Adam Tooze (Author)"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study...Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." --Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany'...

Purple Gang in the North: How Club Manitou was Planned, Built, Operated, and Transmogrified - Paperback

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by Judith Landis (Author), Mark Huck (Author)Detroit's notorious Purple Gang had expansion plans: the northern woods of Michigan and its summer resorts. By 1929, Club Manitou was in operation, with a maze of escape tunnels surrounding its basement speakeasy. Here is the history of the club and its owner, with details of the building not previously known.. Number of Pages: 396 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 26, 2022

Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command - Paperback

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by Lewis Sorley (Author)A man of extraordinary inner strength and patriotic devotion, General Harold K. Johnson was a soldier's officer, loved by his men and admired by his peers for his leadership, courage, and moral convictions. Lewis Sorley's biography provides a fitting testament to this remarkable man and his dramatic rise from obscurity to become LBJ's Army Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War. A native of North Dakota, Johnson survived more than three grueling years as a POW under the...

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by Gene A. Getz (Author)The body of Christ can't be all that it should be unless we mature in our interpersonal relationships as the Bible commands. Building Up One Another has been helping believers do just that since 1976, when Gene Getz first published what has since become a best-selling classic. This book, the cornerstone of the well-known "One Another Series," has now been thoroughly updated and rewritten, drawing upon Dr. Getz's church planting and "building up" experience. It also inc...

The Perfect Officer: Lessons in Leadership - Hardcover

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by Henrik Bering (Author)The Perfect Officer focuses on the careers of a group of brilliant officers from the Napoleonic Wars up to our own times: what they did right, what they did wrong, and what lessons they drew from their experiences. The book's recurring theme is the importance of imagination, and it demonstrates how these men were constantly inspired by each other and borrowed each other's ideas. A number of these lessons are equally applicable in the civilian sphere, with one notable ...

The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queen - Paperback

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by Kembrew McLeod (Author)A thrilling artistic history of New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture. Award-winning author Kembrew McLeod takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the city during the 1960s and early '70s and focuses on how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds were that flourished in one square mile of downtown. These pages give life to the beat artists, gonzo filmmaker...

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry - Paperback

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by Imani Perry (Author)Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was...

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by Adrian Goldsworthy (Author)Named 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com "An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived."--Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review "The best introduction to Caesar and his world that is currently available."--Karl Galinsky, Bookforum Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor's life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, co...

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World - Paperback

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by Patrick J. Buchanan (Author)Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen- Winston Churchill first among them-the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of score...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - Paperback

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by China Miéville (Author)Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this "engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century" (Village Voice) In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable tran...

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by Sun Tzu (Author)The Art of War, the world's oldest treatise on warfare, has been studied by leaders for centuries. Dated to about fifth century BCE, The Art of War is considered the oldest treatise on war in the world. Attributed to Sun Tzu of the Zhou dynasty, the book is composed of thirteen chapters, each addressing a particular aspect of warfare, such as planning offenses, military combat, and the employment of spies. Influential in Eastern civilization for millennia and in Western cul...

To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment - Hardcover

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by Bret Baier (Author) Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how George Washington saved the Constitution-and the American experiment"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." --Jay WinikA sweeping narrative ranging from the unsettled early American frontier and the battlefields of the Revolution to the history-making clashes within Philadelphia's Independence Hall, Bre...

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by Sara Hurst (Author), Lucy Cripps (Illustrator)Explore a world that existed millions of years before people lived on the Earth, when extraordinary animals roamed the land. From the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex to the birdlike Compsognathus, the hidden wonders of the dinosaur world are revealed. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.6 x 10 x 10.9 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2018

Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology - Hardcover

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by Christopher Heaney (Author)When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how "ancient Peruvians" became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, an...

Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians - Paperback

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by Arvis Locklear Boughman (Author), Loretta O. Oxendine (Author) "There's nothing happens to a person that can't be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there's something in the earth to cure everything ... I don't fix a tonic until I'm sure what's wrong with a person. I don't make guesses. I have to be sure, because medicine can do bad as well as good, and I don't want to hurt anybody.... Maybe it takes some herbs. Maybe it takes some touching. But most of ...

In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters - Paperback

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by Nancy Goldstone (Author)The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkabl...

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment - Paperback

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by John Witte (Author), Joel A. Nichols (Author), Richard W. Garnett (Author)This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom - liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, religious equality, religious plu...

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II - Paperback

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by Daniel James Brown (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Str...

I Ain't Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America's Wars - Hardcover

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by Chris Lombardi (Author)A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak out and change U.S. p...

City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit - Hardcover

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by Stefan Szymanski (Author), Silke-Maria Weineck (Author)The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the histo...

The Godfrey Diary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn: (Expanded, Annotated) - Paperback

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by Edward Settle Godfrey (Author)Lieutenant Edward Settle Godfrey was commander of K Company of the 7th Cavalry in the battalion of Captain Frederick Benteen. Godfrey was a central figure in the Reno-Benteen defense over the 25th and 26th of June, 1876. He kept a diary of the Yellowstone Expedition against the Sioux from May 17 to September 24.The diary reveals anecdotes and observations of General Custer's mood and behavior before the fight on June 25th, as well as the desperate story of sur...

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by Middleton A. Harris (Editor), Ernest Smith (Editor), Morris Levitt (Editor)A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells and visualizes a story of such misery with seriousness, humor, grace and triumph."--Toni Morrison Seventeenth-century ske...

DBMM Army Lists Book 1: The Chariot Period 3000 BC to 500 BC - Paperback

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by Phil Barker (Author)This is the first volume in a series of WRG publications providing detailed guidance on the structure and organisation of ancient armies for use with the De Bellis Magistrorum Militum (DBMM) wargame rules. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2019

Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps - Hardcover

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by Steven O'Hern (Author)Since the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, built an economic empire, and trained, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goal--the preservation and expansion of the Islamic revolution. Inside Iran the IRGC influences the country's politics, economy, and foreign policy, and controls its nuclear program. Outside Ir...

T Is for Tar Heel: A North Carolina Alphabet - Hardcover

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by Carol Crane (Author), Gary Palmer (Illustrator)From the Appalachian Mountains to the Outer Banks, readers will be delighted to discover the beautiful state of North Carolina in T is for Tarheel. Explore the Biltmore mansion, with its 255 rooms, which took nineteenth century millionaire George Washington Vanderbilt six years to have built. Learn about the history and lore of NASCAR racing under Z is for Zoom! Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.4 x 11.39 x 9.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication...

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution - Paperback

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by Brian Kilmeade (Author), Don Yaeger (Author)*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring's most secret member, Agent 355 "This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here's the action." --BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied--thanks in large...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - Paperback

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by William L. Shirer (Author), Ron Rosenbaum (Introduction by)The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How the End Begins. No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the...

Along the Trail with Lewis & Clark: A Guide to the Trail Today (Revised) - Paperback

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by Barbara Fifer (Author), Joseph Mussulman Follow the journey of the Corps of Discovery from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello through the Midwest and the Rockies, to the Pacific Ocean and back with this detailed chronicle of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. This third edition of the classic guidebook features accessible text that combines the historical sites and color maps that merge the past and present in a user-friendly and entertaining way. Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark is the best...

Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day (a Graphic Novel) - Hardcover

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by Dan Nott (Author)We use water, electricity, and the internet every day--but how do they actually work? And what's the plan to keep them running for years to come? This nonfiction science graphic novel takes readers on a journey from how the most essential systems were developed to how they are implemented in our world today and how they will be used in the future. What was the first message sent over the internet? How much water does a single person use every day? How was the electric ligh...