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Democratic Eloquence
Democratic Eloquence tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth […]
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The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. […]
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The Three-Year Swim Club
The inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to […]
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Alistair Cooke’s America
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of […]
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The Guanches Survivors and Their Descendants
If we base our evidence firstly, on historical sources that until only a short while ago were concealed from us, and, secondly, on statistics produced by anthropologists in recent years, […]
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Caxton: The Description of Britain
Based on Caxton's version of a 14th century Middle Eastern translation of the Latin Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, which was printed in 1948 by Wynkyn de Worde under title: The […]
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The War in the Desert
The hard-fought campaigns in the North African desert waged by Axis and Allied forces are documented by means of text, picture essays, and profiles of Rommel and Montgomery.
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Wonders of the Ancient World
Describes the most extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages.
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This Is America My Country
From the “Let us put before our children this inspiring story of America. Let them drink it in, and they will be such citizens as will guarantee the developing energy […]
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Sun, Sin & Suburbia
People all over the globe know Las Vegas as gambling’s Mecca, Sin City, the Entertainment Capital of the World, a resort destination that attracts more than 35 million visitors per […]
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The Most Evil Men and Women in History
In conjunction with the Channel 5 series, this book contains 16 essays on the most evil men and women of all time. Included are: Ilse Koch; Caligula; Torquemada; Francisco Pizarro; […]
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper
“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has […]
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Thunderstruck
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo […]
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The Federalist Papers
Three illustrious early American statesmen defend the political principles and ideologies set forth in the Constitution of the United States, in a new edition of the classic, which is accompanied […]
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In the Garden of Beasts
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in […]
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