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An Account Of The Congo Independent State (1889) - Paperback

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by Henry Phillips Jr. (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8...

The Chicago, Millington And Western Railway: A Narrow-Guage Line Across The State Of Illinois, From Chicago To The Mississippi River (1877) - Paperback

$37.37

by Chicago Millington (Author), Western Railway Company (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pa...

Military History Of Pike County, Missouri (1915) - Paperback

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by Clayton Keith (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8.5 IN ...

A Libel On Dr. D...Ny, And A Certain Great Lord (1730) - Paperback

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by Jonathan Swift (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN...

Our Earliest Ancestors In Britain (1879) - Paperback

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by William Boyd Dawkins (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Life Of The Ancient Essenes (1956) - Paperback

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by Raymond W. Bernard (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8....

Parish Register Extracts From The Notebook Of An 18th Century Antiquary, Sir Justinian Isham, Fifth Baronet, Of Lamport, Northamptonshire (1907) - Paperback

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by Justinian Isham (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 11 x 8.5 I...

Yerba Mate: The Tea Of South America (1916) - Paperback

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by The Pan American Union (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 ...

The Case Of Our Fellow Creatures: The Oppressed Africans (1784) - Paperback

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by Anthony Benezet (Author), John Ady (Other)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions:...

The First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, Vs. Samuel Morris And Elliston P. Morris (1867) - Paperback

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by First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry (Author), Samuel Morris (Author), Elliston P. Morris (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are t...

National Monuments of the USA - Hardcover

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by Cameron Walker (Author), Chris Turnham (Illustrator)Travel through America's incredible history and amazing wild places, visiting the National Monuments that celebrate the most iconic and majestic landscapes and locations in the USA. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the history, architecture, flora, and fauna in some of the most visited National Monuments in the United States, this gorgeously illustrated book showcases the nation's most historically important and amazing place...

All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans - Paperback

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by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author), Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Author)Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: "Columbus Discovered America""Than...

The History Of The Tribe Of Levi Considered (1847) - Paperback

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by John Wright Printer (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8...

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic - Paperback

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by Michael Axworthy (Author)In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged. The...

The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost - Hardcover

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by Cathal J. Nolan (Author)History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined in other wa...

Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop - Hardcover

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by Alex Zamalin (Author)A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of counterculture and the interwoven relationship between each individual legacy. From Anarchism to the Harlem R...

The Rialto in Richmond: The Money War Between the States & Other Mysteries of the Civil War - Paperback

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by Joseph P. Farrell (Author)Join revisionist author Joseph P. Farrell for a look at the money war between the Union government and the Confederacy. A rialto is a market or place of exchange, and in The Rialto in Richmond: the Money War Between the States and Other Mysteries of the Civil War, Farrell examines the Confederate and Union monetary systems, the flight of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the end of the war, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and more. Why did Confeder...

Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II - Paperback

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by Charles B. MacDonald (Author)As a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish--the Battle of the Bulge. In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald's side, sharing in all of combat's misery, terror, and drama. How this green commander gains his men's loyalty in the snows of war-torn Europe is one of the great, true, unforgettable war stories of all time.Author BiographyThe late Charles B. MacDo...

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by Matthew Hild (Author), David L. Morton (Author)Georgia Tech has become one of the nation's top-10-ranked public universities and boasts a former U.S. president, TV personality and Hall-of-Fame athletes among its prominent alumni.From humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech is now renowned throughout the world for its excellence in technological education and research. A top-10-ranked public university, according to U.S. News & World Report...

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written - Paperback

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by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Author)An engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals Hailed by the New York Times as "the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read," Doris Kearns Goodwin's extraordinary and insightful book draws from meticulous research in addition to the author's time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969. After Lyndon Johnson's term ended, Goodwin remained his confidante and assist...

History Of The Long Island Railroad Company, 1834-1898 (1898) - Paperback

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by Elizur Brace Hinsdale (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x ...

The Twelve Wonders Of The World (1611) - Paperback

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by John Maynard (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN P...

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West - Paperback

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by Nate Blakeslee (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. With...

In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens - Paperback

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by Richard Waitt (Author)A napping volcano blinked awake in March 1980. Two months later, when that mountain roared, Jim Scymanky was about twelve miles northwest, logging a north slope above Hoffstadt Creek. "Rocks zinged through the woods, bouncing off trees, then the tops of trees snapped off... Suddenly I could see nothing...it got hot right away, then scorching hot and impossible to breathe. The air had no oxygen, like being trapped underwater...I was being cremated, the pain unbearable....

The Declaration of Independence (a True Book: American History) - Paperback

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by Elaine Landau (Author)Learn how the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in American history and to discover how these moments helped shape the country that it is today. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study.This book recounts the origins of the desire for in...

Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China - Hardcover

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by Jack Weatherford (Author)"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the ti...

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by Robert Leo Heilman (Author)In his third book, Children of Death, critically-acclaimed award-winning author Robert Leo Heilman pursues three unanswered questions from his childhood. Growing up in a family in which his German-speaking grandparents had migrated to the United States from Russia during the first decade of the Twentieth Century he found himself wondering: Where had the Heilmans lived before they migrated to Russia? Why did they leave their home to settle there? And, most poigna...

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition - Paperback

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by Buddy Levy (Author)National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award"A thrilling and harrowing story. If it's a cliche to say I couldn't put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn't put this book down." --Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins "Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn't exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdo...

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City - Hardcover

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by Antero Pietila (Author)Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil rights legislation. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of white flight after W...

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of EDO - Hardcover

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by Lorenz Bichler (Author), Melanie Trede (Author)Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, acto...

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Paperback

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by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Author)Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and refor...

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island - Paperback

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by Earl Swift (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." -- Hampton Sides - "GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK." -- Beth Macy - "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." -- Outs...