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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima

Stephen Walker

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The pace of Walker's narrative replicates the frantic advance of August 1945....

DK Eyewitness Scotland (Travel Guide)

Known… for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for...

Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR

Neal Thompson

From Publishers Weekly Thompson's raucous account of NASCAR's early decades raises from obscurity the "motherless,...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Peru

Adele Evans

Known… for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for...

The Light and the Glory

Peter J. Marshall

About the Author Peter Marshall is a writer, historian, Presbyterian minister, teacher, and popular conference speaker....

To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment

Laurence H. Tribe

Brilliant...In their terrific, accessible, and thoughtful new book, To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment , the...

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Like many historians, Taylor stays close to the history she documents and doesn't set out to address the present day in...

The Invisible War

Donald Grey Barnhouse

An exploration of the great conflict going on between good and evil within the spiritual realm, Dr. Barnhouse carefully...

Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files

Hugh Newman

Strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, horned skulls, massive jaws that fit over a modern face, and...

Voices of a People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is famous primarily for A People's History of the United States , the book in which he presented...

Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (Spanish Edition)

Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago describe su niñez . . . con una prosa poética [que] nos regresa a nuestros propios días de...

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance

Sam Low

Review This book is an important part of our ‘ōlelo, our history, and it contains the mana of all those who helped...

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

Eva Schloss

Eva Schloss and Evelyn Julia Kent --This text refers to the paperback edition. From Library Journal Almost 50 years now...

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

One of the ten most influential books in America. —Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club "Survey of Lifetime...

Documents of the Christian Church

Chris Maunder

About the Author Chris Maunder is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University College of Ripon...

Christianity Through the Centuries

Earle Edwin Cairns

From the Publisher %The third edition of Christianity Through the Centuries brings the reader up-to-date by...

Scram!: The Gripping First-hand Account of the Helicopter War in the Falklands

Harry Benson

Aged 21, HARRY BENSON was one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands war. Following two tours as a...

American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow

Jerrold M. Packard

From Publishers Weekly This is a clear, concise, historical narrative of a draconian reality: how U.S. legal statutes...

The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen

George Laycock

George Laycock has gone to great details to portray the life of Western mountain men, and has done an outstanding...

Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It

David Robertson

In 1822, Denmark Vesey, a Caribbean-born free Negro from Charleston, South Carolina, led the largest attempted slave...

Lion Rampant: Medieval Wargaming Rules (Osprey Wargames)

Mersey, Daniel

The value of [Osprey Wargame] books is unbelievably good. Generally, $20 can get you an interesting ruleset with great...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library)

Edward Gibbon

From the Inside Flap Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper From the...

Fifty Places to Ski and Snowboard Before You Die: Downhill Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations

Chris Santella

About the Author Chris Santella is the author of 21 books, including 15 titles in the Fifty Places series. Based in...

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey

From Publishers Weekly Chauncey reconstructs New York's pre-WWII gay community, revealing a group that was deeply...