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by Britton Davis (Author), Milo Milton Quaife (Editor), Robert M. Utley (Foreword by)Britton Davis's account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. Davis knew most of the people involved in the campaign and was himself in charge of Indian scouts, some of whom helped hunt down the small band of fugitives Robert M. Utley's foreword reevaluates the account for the mod...

A History of the Computer Industry: From Relay Computers to the IBM PC

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Lindfors (Author)The book is a short history of the computer industry, starting with relay computers and ending with the IBM PC, introduced in 1981. Before digital computers, there were digital switching systems, used by the phone companies, made with relays. With the earliest digital computers, users found relays to be just too slow, and vacuum tubes were mainly used in analog devices, like radios. But soon digital counters were invented, showing that ...

Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier - Paperback

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by Guy de la Bédoyère (Author)Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire. Empire. The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the s...

Random Number Generators for Ultracomputers

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Report copyright infringementby O. E. Percus (Author), Malvin H. Kalos (Author)This is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of generating random numbers for ultracomputers. The authors cover all aspects of random number generation, from basic algorithms to advanced techniques for improving randomness and reducing correlation. This book is essential reading for anyone working with ultracomputers or interested in the theory of random number generation.This work has been selected by ...

My Life in 24 Frames Per Second: A Manga Autobiography of a Japanese Animation Pioneer Rintarô

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Report copyright infringementby Rintaro (Author), Rintaro (Illustrator), Montana Kane (Translator)An autobiography in manga form from legendary anime director Rintarô. Fully illustrated and with a foreword by director Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira, this inspiring memoir is the unique journey of an animation trailblazer. Grand Prize Winner of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize! Born in 1941 in Tokyo, Rintaro joined the Japanese animated film company Toei Animation in 1958 at the young age of...

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I - Paperback

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by Robert A. Caro (Author)The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. ...

The Devil: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Darren Oldridge (Author)The Devil has fascinated Christians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many haunting works of art. This Very Short Introduction looks at the Devil in the history of ideas and in the lives of real people. Darren Oldridge shows us that the Devil is an important figure in western history--a richly complex and contradictory one. Oldridge focuses on three main themes: the idea of the Devil being integral to western thought from the early Middle Ages to the...

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by Bill Buford (Author)With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence.Front JacketThey have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the r...

Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place - Paperback

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by Coll Thrush (Author), William Cronon (Foreword by)This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.A...

Mrballen Presents: Where Nightmares Live: The Graphic Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Mrballen (Author), Andrea Mutti (Illustrator), Robert Venditti (Contribution by)From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel, a vividly illustrated graphic novel featuring nine spine-chilling stories--based on real events--of the horror that lurks within the unknown In MrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live, John Allen, known popularly as "MrBallen," is back with another heart-stopping collection of st...

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Report copyright infringementby Derf Backderf (Author)From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and NPR, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent--as relevant today as it was in 1970. O...

Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters

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Report copyright infringementby Violet Jessop (Author), John Maxtone-Graham (Editor)Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the...

Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend - Paperback

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by Joseph P. Farrell (Author)Why were the Allies worried about an atom bomb attack by the Germans in 1944? Why did the Soviets threaten to use poison gas against the Germans? Why did Hitler in 1945 insist that holding Prague could win the war for the Third Reich? Why did US General George Patton's Third Army race for the Skoda works at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia instead of Berlin? Why did the US Army not test the uranium atom bomb it dropped on Hiroshima? Why did the Luftwaffe fly a non-stop ro...

The Complete Book of Maps & Geography, Grades 3 - 6 - Paperback

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by Thinking Kids (Compiled by), Carson Dellosa Education (Compiled by)Geography Workbook for kids ages 8-12 Support your child's educational journey with The Complete Book of Maps & Geography workbook that helps 3rd--6th graders learn essential geography and map skills. This Geography Book is a great way for your third, fourth, fifth, or sixth grader to learn essential geography skills such as global geography, North and South American geography, United States geography and regions, map s...

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence - Paperback

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by Carol Berkin (Author)A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that "vividly recounts Colonial women's struggles for independence--for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the ...

A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor - Paperback

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by Joe Starita (Author)The poignant and moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree--becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her...

The Comic Book History of the Cocktail: Five Centuries of Mixing Drinks and Carrying on

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Report copyright infringementby David Wondrich (Author), Dean Kotz (Illustrator)A graphic novel history of the cocktail--from prehistoric wassail to our current boozy renaissance--featuring 20 recipes by drinks historian, Daily Beast columnist, and award-winning author David Wondrich. There's no better writer to tell the colorful history of cocktails than David Wondrich, widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and a driving force behind the early-twenty-fi...

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything - Hardcover

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by Bill Bryson (Author)Explore the mysteries of the universe without ever leaving your home Bill Bryson takes on the world of science and answers questions big and small, perfect for curious readers looking to learn outside of the classroom Did you know that: - Every atom in your body has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to being you? - If you are an average-sized kid, you have enough potential energy inside you to explode with ...

Titanic, First Accounts: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Various (Author), Tim Maltin (Introduction by), Tim Maltin (Editor)Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic--in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art The Titanic, First Accounts graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Full of historically accurate details and an afterword by the grandson of Lawrence Beesley,...

A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us Occupation - Hardcover

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by Kornel Chang (Author)A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"--a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for forty years. New mother Chŏn Sukhŭi marveled at the news, envisioning her son growing up free in an independent Korea. Yi Ilchae, who only days before had been drafted into the Japanese army, threw himself into union activ...

The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others - Paperback

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by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)This concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world's leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and the Communist Manifesto (1848). It also features writings by the Russian revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky; Marat and Danton of the French Revolution; and selections by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emma Goldma...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Paperback

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by Reza Aslan (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A lucid, intelligent page-turner" (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his ...

The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Letts (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR RESEARCH NONFICTION In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonishing find--his briefcase is empty but for photos of beautiful white horses that have been stolen and kept on a secret far...

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by Kevin Starr (Author)"A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr's answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects."--The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State's premier historian distills the entire sweep of California's history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Sp...

American History, Combined Edition: 1492 - Present - Paperback

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by Thomas S. Kidd (Author)In this combined edition, the full content of volumes 1 and 2 of Thomas Kidd's American History are brought together in a single, accessible textbook. This sweeping narrative spans the full scope of American history from the first Native American societies to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times. In clear, readable prose, and with attention to well-known and more obscure figures from American history, Kidd gives a robust account of the events, p...

50 Maps of the World: Explore the Globe with 50 Fact-Filled Maps! - Paperback

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by Ben Handicott (Author), Kalya Ryan (Author), Sol Linero (Illustrator)Discover the most awesome places on Earth. An essential addition to the bookshelf of any young travel lover, map maestro, or geography genius. Geography, history, and culture spill from the pages of this luxuriously illustrated treasure trove of travel knowledge for 7-to-10-year-olds. Each two-page spread is dedicated to a different country, providing both quick-fire facts and the chance to delve deeper into what makes e...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg McManus (Author)What if the creatures we've dismissed as myth are not only real, but placed here... on purpose? When a brutal attack in a Kentucky forest leaves one comper missing under terrifying circumstances, a classified government agency is forced to investigate a disturbing link between alien sightings and cryptid creatures long believed to be legend. Bigfoot. Dogman. Mothman. They aren't just stories anymore. As elite agents, military hunters, and ...

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by Geoffrey Ward (Author), Kenneth Burns (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America's least-understood conflict, "a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come." --The Washington Post More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geof...

Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture - Hardcover

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by Neil Dahlstrom (Author)"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." --Wall Street JournalDiscover the untold story of the "tractor wars," the twenty-year period that introduced power farming--the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and Inte...

Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community During Winter Quarters, Virginia - Hardcover

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by James A. Davis (Author)In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union's Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County. For the next six months the opposing soldiers eyed each other warily across the Rapidan River. In Music Along the Rapidan James A. Davis examines the role of music in def...

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by Barack Obama (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE MAGAZINE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • Slate • Vox • The Economist • Marie Claire A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy “A powe...