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Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret - Paperback

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by Stephen L. Moore (Author)As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America's most decorated Green Beret. For the first time, Robert Howard's story is being told in full. Respected military historian Stephen L. Moore takes readers into the heart of the Vietnam War's covert Special Ops jungle warfare in this immersive, suspenseful read. Through family sources, National Archives doc...

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin - Paperback

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by Gene Barretta (Author), Gene Barretta (Illustrator)The inventions and inspiration of Benjamin Franklin and how they've stood the test of time What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? If you were Benjamin Franklin, you'd set up these organizations yourself. Franklin also designed the lightning rod, suggested the idea of daylight savings time, and invented bifocals-all inspired by his common sense and intelligence. In this in...

The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe - Hardcover

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by Barry Cunliffe (Author)Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persian...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin White (Author)An Illustrated guide to the many types of "emergency money" or "necessity money" Notgeld in German, that were issued during WW1. Produced in many forms including paper bank notes, coins in base metal and cardboard, stamps Ect; they often turn up with medals and "Soldiers Effects" this guide will help identify and add worth to these militaria finds. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN ...

The Plans That Failed: An Economic History of the Gdr

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Report copyright infringementby André Steiner (Author) The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR's 'new' society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned ...

America Are We Really Free?: Born of Theft to Devastation

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Report copyright infringementby Atwin Davis (Author)The purpose of this book is to uncover to all who read it all the lies, incorrect, and false teaching we have been taught for centuries. This book was inspired by God to tell the absolute truth about God and his Holy Bible, our history, our government, and the real laws of this country. While it exposes tyranny, corruption, and economic devastation in all areas of our everyday life. There will be those who oppose and will reject this only be...

The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby John Zada (Author)A captivating travel memoir set in the Middle East about cross-cultural dissonance and a quixotic quest to find home.While travelling to his grandfather's ancestral town in rural eastern Turkey, journalist John Zada is mistakenly hauled off an overnight bus at a military roadblock and pulled into a dragnet searching for outlawed rebels. During that abrupt encounter Zada experiences a series of vivid flashbacks from his life and travels in the ...

Natural Theology: Or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature - Paperback

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by William Paley (Author), Matthew D. Eddy (Editor), David Knight (Editor)In Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples from biology, anatomy, and astronomy in order to demonstrate the intricacy and ingenuity of design that could only come from a wise and benevolent deity. This new edition,...

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation - Hardcover

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by John Kaag (Author)"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag--the natural extension of his genre-defining writing." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Leadership: In Turbulent TimesA history of a family spanning centuries and continents--one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers--geogr...

The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Eric R. Scerri (Author)The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends. In this Very Short Introduction Eric R. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the table, and shows how the deeper meaning of the table's structure gradually became apparent w...

The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade - Hardcover

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by Susan Wise Bauer (Author)In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right began to replace might as the engine of empire.Not just Christianity and Islam but also the religions of the Persians, the Germans, and the Mayas wer...

The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by S. A. Smith (Author)This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics, but situates political developments firmly in the contex...

Great Depression: Worldwide Economic Depression That Began in the United States (How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History)

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Report copyright infringementby Chad Henry (Author)The Great Depression was one of the worst catastrophes the United States as a nation has ever faced, and its effects were much more far-reaching than just the damage done to the American economy. Because of it, seeds of desperation would spread far and wide.An unstable Europe, already struggling to find its way after the First World War, would find itself buckling under additional economic duress. Soon, totalitarian governments would come to ...

Bureaucracy, Bankers and Bastards: a farmer's story

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Spurling (Author)William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work, family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and flooding rain. Overseas wars had taken many of their own, but they had to believe it was for the greater good, for the safety of the land they worked and the preservation of a history a...

Coming to America: A Gold Mountain Dream

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Report copyright infringementby Paul C. Ng (Author)Everyone may agree that America is still the greatest country in the world. However, some may also argue that America is in decline. We are confronting huge problems such as government gridlocks, budget deficits, national debt, loss of jobs, energy dependence, discrimination, terrorism, wastes and wars.This book helps us to identify all these and other problems, and offers solutions. But we must have serious dialogue and debate before we can ...

Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author) Number of Pages: 362 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2018

On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union - Paperback

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by Ronald C. White (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America."--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was LightFINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PR...

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic - Paperback

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by John Ferling (Author)It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its freshinterpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic election of 1800. Ferling's...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Freeman (Author)CHINA Their "Three Gorges Project" engineering masterpiece hasn't gone as well as the world was told on CNN by the Communist Party. A disaster would be a more accurate description. Furthermore, an environmental disaster as well. The rice growing region has been decimated for years to come accounting for nearly 20% of their own rice output and India cannot make up the shortfall. This translates to 400 million Chinese with no rice to eat. Thr...

Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington - Paperback

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by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Author), Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator)Introduce children to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, and the historic march on Washington with this inspiring biography Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in this Level 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader. Set against Dr. King's historic march on Washington in the summer of 1963, a moving story and powerful illustrati...

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Report copyright infringementby Frances Kellor (Author)"If the winter of 1914-15 marks the inception of a finer zeal in the treatment of unemployment, it is well that this volume is written, for it is eminently readable." -Ordway Tead, Secretary Massachusetts Committee on Unemployment (1915) In Out of Work (1915 edition), Frances Kellor, a highly regarded American social reformer, provided a study of immigrant employment in the United States, with a particular focus on the lack of data record...

Silence Finally Speaks: Discovering My Mother's Secret Past as a Holocaust Survivor

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Fristensky (Author) Number of Pages: 334 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Fristensky (Author) Number of Pages: 334 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2025

Surprised by Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic - Paperback

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by Patrick Madrid (Author)The first testimonies to give you all the reasons for becoming CatholicThese eleven personal conversion accounts are unlike any you've ever read, they're packed with biblical theological and historical proofs for Catholicism. Each year thousands of atheists, Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Pentecostals are being surprised by Catholic truth - and these converts tell you why.Author BiographyPatrick Madrid is a life-long Catholic. He has authored or edited 16 Catholi...

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age - Hardcover

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by Kathleen Sheppard (Author)The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology. The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the to...

Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal - Hardcover

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by David K. Love (Author)Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley's massive contributions to the fields of astronomy, navigation, geophysics, mathematics, engineering, and actuarial science as a young man and eventually as Astronomer Royal are mostly overlooked. Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Roy...

The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II - Hardcover

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by Caitlin Galante Deangelis (Author)When World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran-gardeners married local women, raised bilingual children, and dedicated themselves to caring for the graves of their fallen comrades.When World War II swept through Europe in 1940, more than 200 War Graves gardeners were stranded in Nazi-occupied France. Their bosses explicitly orde...

She Persisted: Maria Tallchief - Paperback

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by Christine Day (Author), Chelsea Clinton (Author), Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Maria Tallchief! In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Christine Day, readers learn about the amazing life of Maria Tallchief--and how she persisted. Maria Tallchief loved to dance, but was told that ...

Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today - Paperback

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by Cynthia Levinson (Author), Sanford Levinson (Author)A noted children's nonfiction author and one of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars team up to create an essential book on the United States Constitution for everyone grappling with today's most urgent political issues. Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in one place--the U.S. Constitution. Fault Lines in the Constitution takes readers back to the creation of this historic document and reveals h...

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight - Hardcover

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by William Hazelgrove (Author)This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first flying machine. How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics have figured out the secret of manned flight? This new history of the Wright brothers' monumental accomplishment focuses on their ea...

National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More - Hardcover

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by Cynthia O'Brien (Author)American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids and students. More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European expansion acro...

Coastal California: The Pacific Coast Highway and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Jake Rajs (Author), Edmund G. Brown Jr (Foreword by)An unprecedented book showcasing the California coast via the Pacific Coast Highway and beyond. As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America--a shining promise of endless possibility. California is both dream and reality. Coastal California is for anyone who has felt the lure of a Pacific sunset. From the physical beauty of Monterey to the grandeur of Southern California, photographer Jake Rajs displays his ...