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Our Times: An Illustrated History of the 20th Century

By: N/A

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc: October 1995

Seller ID: 9079

ISBN: 1878685589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Great Courses - Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution CDs

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Great Courses: January 2012

Seller ID: 14638

ISBN: 1598039032

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House

By: N/A

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Viking Adult: May 1998

Seller ID: 16426

ISBN: 067088006X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

It is not a stretch to argue that history will remember Jimmy Carter for his post-presidential works long after his tenure in the White House has been forgotten. But as Douglas Brinkley points out in this absorbing study, it took such presidential accomplishments as human rights advocacy, the Camp David Accords, and the Panama Canal Treaties to give Carter the international moral credibility to refashion himself as the global peacemaker.

Although his is an unauthorized biography, Brinkley has had unique and intimate access to the former President -traveling with him to meet Simon Peres in Is...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2008

Seller ID: 9257

ISBN: 039333306X

Condition: Used - Very Good

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story--sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the cor...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2008

Seller ID: 18354

ISBN: 039333306X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War

By: Alan Brinkley

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Vintage: January 1996

Seller ID: 10061

ISBN: 0679753141

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal--which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America's economy--gave way to its contemporary counterpart, which is less hostile to corporate capitalism and more solicitous of individual rights. Clearly and dramatically, Bri...
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The Blue Nile

By: Alan Moorehead

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 2000

Seller ID: 16419

ISBN: 0060956402

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all. In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separat...
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The Night Ranger (A John Wells Novel)

By: Alex Berenson

Price: $13.98

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: February 2013

Seller ID: 14623

ISBN: 039915972X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

John Wells enters new territory, as he goes underground in East Africa to track four kidnapped Americans and the Somali bandits who snatched them, in the tough, thoughtful, electrifying new novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author.
Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a giant refugee camp for Somalis. Two men, two women, each with their own reasons for being there. But after twelve weeks, they re ready for a break and pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure.
They get more than they bargained for. Bandits hijack them. They wake up in a hut, h...
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The Princes in the Tower

By: Alison Weir

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Ballantine Books: July 1995

Seller ID: 11693

ISBN: 0345391780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower," as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power t...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2000

Seller ID: 18244

ISBN: 0684846098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed "Undaunted Courage, " which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.

"Nothing Like It in the World" is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the ...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1998

Seller ID: 19986

ISBN: 0684848015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again ...
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Price: $16.48

Publisher: Viking: October 2009

Seller ID: 14630

ISBN: 0670021253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the ...
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Introduction to the Greek World

By: Arnott, Peter

Price: $1.48

Seller ID: 12924

ISBN: 281BVQ1000094

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The confessions of Saint Augustine: A new translation with introductions

By: Augustine

Price: $3.48

Publisher: T. Nelson: January 1983

Seller ID: 17026

ISBN: 0840758634

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 1985

Seller ID: 10062

ISBN: 0345308239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.

Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchm...
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The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children

By: Bennett, William J.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub: June 1994

Seller ID: 19872

ISBN: 1561793604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster America Collection)

By: Benson Bobrick

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: July 2011

Seller ID: 9849

ISBN: 1451626991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Independence and eventual victory and liberty, recounted by Benson Bobrick, lauded by The New York Times as "perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today." Overwhelmed with debt following its victory in the French and Indian Wars, England began imposing harsh new tariffs and taxes on its colonists in the 1760s. Rebellion against these measures soon erupted into war. Bobrick thrillingly describes all the major battles, fro...
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Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin

By: Berthon, Simon,Potts, Joanna

Price: $12.48

Publisher: Da Capo Press: March 2006

Seller ID: 18249

ISBN: 0306814676

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt. While their nations fought battles with weapons, the four warlords of the twentieth century fought a war of the mind. Structured along the lines of a cinematic thriller, rapidly cutting from one man to the next, the book takes us blow by blow as they try to outthink and outfight each other. These encounters are told on a day-by-day, even hour-by-hour basis, a...
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