Aspects (Academic)/Historical
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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game – Updated Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that t- Author: Hodges, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 069116472X
- Language: English
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRussia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hosking, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580987
- Language: English
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Attu Boy: A Young Alaskan’s WWII Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartIn the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Al… [more below]
- Author: Golodoff, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1602232490
- Language: English
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
$24.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1416547878
- Language: English
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The Battle of Midway
$22.99 Add to cartThere are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199315981
- Language: English
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Slaves in the Family
$25.00 Add to cartMore than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classic
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534454
- Language: English
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
$19.95 Add to cartBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after fi
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
- Author: Said, Omar Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0299249549
- Language: English
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Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
$28.99 Add to cartLeonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and… [more below]
- Author: Cott, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199858446
- Language: English
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Music: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Read moreA complete and harmonious history of music, from prehistory to the present day!
Have you ever wondered how blues influenced rock music? Or why jazz took a more Latin-American approach? Classical or ro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0744058341
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought–a riveting nonfiction chronicle published
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062312065
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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The Great Depression: A Diary
$19.99 Add to cartWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set dow… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489011
- Language: English
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
$17.99 Add to cartFeatured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a perso… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490443
- Language: English
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A New York Times Notable Book – Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography – A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307476413
- Language: English
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
$22.95 Add to cartSettlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing
- Series: Kersplebedeb
- Author: Sakai, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1629630373
- Language: English
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Colorado: A Historical Atlas
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new ed… [more below]
- Author: Noel, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25, 2019
- ISBN10: 0806162295
- Language: English
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native Ameri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyer, Paul S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 019538914X
- Language: English
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
$22.99 Read moreThe most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its “discovery” by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European po
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1250070392
- Language: English
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A Disability History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartThe first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedl- Series: ReVisioning American History #2
- Author: Nielsen, Kim E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0807022047
- Language: English
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
$21.99 Add to cartThe powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says “could not be more timely.” In 1950, after over f
- Author: Denis, Nelson A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29, 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585616
- Language: English
