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The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John ... |
| The Great Transformation : The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions |
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In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical ... |
| Cobra II : The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq |
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Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal ... |
| 1776 |
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In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in ... |
| Overthrow : America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq |
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A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments—not ... |
| Guests of the Ayatollah : The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam |
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first ... |
| The Covenant with Black America |
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Six years' worth of symposiums come together in this rich collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans, ... |
| American Gospel : God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation |
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The American Gospel–literally, the good news about America–is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid ... |
| The Gospel of Judas |
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For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who ... |
| Oracle Bones : A Journey Between China's Past and Present |
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From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as ... |
| Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
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In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate ... |
| Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy(3rd Edition) |
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Whether from satellites or spies, weapon caches or phone records, intelligence is valuable to governments for the information and power ... |
| Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy |
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Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In ... |
| Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time |
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The inspiring account of one man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of ... |
| Mayflower : A Story of Courage, Community, and War |
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From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea—winner of the National Book Award—the startling story of the ... |
| America Back on Track |
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Senator Edward Kennedy reveals his inspired plan to revive the lapsed ideals of our nation
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| 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans ... |
| The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) |
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EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
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| The Lost Gospel : The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot |
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Judas Iscariot.
He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer–the close friend who sells him out for ... |
| The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded] : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century |
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“One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. ... |
| The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review; The Cold War (The New York Timestwentieth Century in Review) |
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The New York Times has long been noted for its coverage of the Cold War, both for the depth of ... |
| Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945 |
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Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly ... |
| The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq |
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THE ASSASSINS’ GATE: AMERICA IN IRAQ recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East ... |
| The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln |
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A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy.
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| Holy Blood, Holy Grail |
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Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
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| The Brothers Bulger : How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century |
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This fresh account of Massachusetts+sinfamous Bulger brothers unveils a stunning criminal alliance, and with its dual biography format, goes deeper ... |
| The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery : Edited from the Original Manuscripts: Four Volumes and a Portfolio (Extra Series (Hakluyt Society), No. 34-37.) |
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This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first ... |
| Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith |
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Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus ... |
| The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East |
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During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every ... |
| Becoming Myself : Reflections on Growing Up Female |
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"The women in this collection were asked, simply, to recall a significant memory of growing up female. They responded generously, ... |
| People's History of the United States : 1492 to Present (P.S.) |
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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is ... |
| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage) |
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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect ... |
| The Big Bam : The Life and Times of Babe Ruth |
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He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his ... |
| Night |
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Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to ... |
| No True Glory : A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah |
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"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq’s most ... |
| House of War |
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From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at ... |
| An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography |
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The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina—the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda
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| Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History |
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How much do you know about Judaism?- How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ?
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| The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world |
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The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare ... |
| Annals of the World: James Ussher's Classic Survey of World History |
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Master Books commissioned this important literary work to be updated from the 17th-century original Latin manuscript to modern English and ... |
