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Lemay

Lemay

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Author: Barrett Tillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

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Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt...
Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

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Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

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Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

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Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

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Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History

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Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Author: Heather Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies'...
Unbroken

Unbroken

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Author: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 500 The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. On a May...
Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for...
The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...
MacArthur

MacArthur

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Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

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Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories

The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories

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Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the...
L'Art Pompier

L'Art Pompier

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Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 277
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age

Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age

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Author: Robert C Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens...
Anna Comnena: A Study

Anna Comnena: A Study

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Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

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Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR...
Life After Dark

Life After Dark

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A History of British nightclubs.
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

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Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis

A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis

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Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize...
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

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Author: Laura Dawes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front....
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust

Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust

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Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
Achtung Panzer!

Achtung Panzer!

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Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in...
Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain

Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents

The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents

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Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of...
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB

I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB

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Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great...
North Pole: Nature and Culture

North Pole: Nature and Culture

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Author: Michael Bravo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's...
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past

The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past

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Author: Charlie English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions...
Taking Command Book

Taking Command

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Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Lifesize

Lifesize

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Author: Sophy Henn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure! Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of...
The Twelve Tasks of Heracles and Arion and the Dolphins

The Twelve Tasks of Heracles and Arion and the Dolphins

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Author: Marcia Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 The ancient Greek myths as you've never read them before! The classic stories of The Twelve Tasks of Heracles...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

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Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty

Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty

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Author: Cath Senker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 What if you had to leave your home and you could never go back? What do you think that...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

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Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...
The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians

The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians

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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...
Snowing in Bali

Snowing in Bali

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Author: Kathryn BonellaFormat: Paperback / softbackNumber of Pages:  'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the...
Bruce

Bruce

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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
Till the Cows Come Home The Story of Our Eternal Dependence

Till the Cows Come Home The Story of Our Eternal Dependence

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Author: Philip Walling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 To tell the story of the relationship between humankind and cattle is to tell the story of civilisation itself. Since the...