Historical
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New PostScript
$27.00 Add to cartOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang
- Author: Taylor, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674060490
- Language: English
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American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa
$30.00 Read moreThis biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa.
Richard Dorsey- Author: Mohun, Arwen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828190
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
$23.00 Read moreA revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life
“Kidd’s biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson’s religious and moral life available, and certa- Author: Kidd, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300271050
- Language: English
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Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others
$9.95 Read moreA legendary lawman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and newspaper columnist, Bat Masterson served as sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, ruled Dodge City, and became an eyewitness to the heyday of the Old… [more below]
- Author: Masterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0486470148
- Language: English
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Churchill: The Power of Words
$22.99 Add to cartA collection of the best and most quoted speeches and writings of Nobel Prize-winner Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In speeches, books, and articles, he expressed his fe- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821974
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- Language: English
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Autobiography and Other Writings
$9.94 Add to cartFranklin’s writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry–the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554900
- Language: English
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating fa… [more below]
- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0307950395
- Language: English
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Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
$15.95 Read moreFor his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake’s parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father’s farm. This reprint of an actual early ni… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436667
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
$21.00 Read moreNearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true–yet never provable–continues to unsettle mathematics,
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035935
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a care- Author: Croke, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0812981650
- Language: English
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Walter Isaacson: The Biography of Geniuses: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo Da Vinci
$89.99 Add to cartThis exclusive boxed set from beloved New York Times bestselling author Walter Isaacson features his definitive biographies: Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci.
“If anybody- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 2592
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1982130423
- Language: English
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The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
$16.99 Read moreBased on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura’s escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport.
Jewish musical prodig… [more below]- Author: Golabek, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0446690279
- Language: English
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
$24.95 Read more“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis…Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration–good statesmanship is needed more than ever.”
–Bren- Author: Siemann, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292189
- Language: English
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First Lady from Plains
$26.95 Add to cartFirst Lady from Plains, first published in 1984, is Rosalynn’s Carter’s autobiography, covering her life from her childhood in Plains, Georgia, through her time as First Lady. It is “a readable, livel… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Rosalynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1557283559
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
$21.00 Read moreIn 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Beate Sirota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2014
- ISBN10: 022613251X
- Language: English
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The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
$24.95 Read moreAn expert on samurai history paints a vivid, multi-faceted portrait of feudal Japan and Miyamoto Musashi–the legendary swordsman who wrote the classic martial arts treatise, The Book of Five Rings
Bo- Author: Wilson, William Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1590309871
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
$17.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of the bond between a father and son.”–Heather
- Author: Dronfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063019299
- Language: English
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
$23.00 Read moreA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness, ‘ that ‘joyful eagerness’ fo- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271026
- Language: English
