Chronological Period/1900-1949
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- Language: English
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Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA wonderful edition of a Jewish WWII heroine’s widely read and cherished diary, also including many of Hannah’s poems and letters, memoirs written by her mother and accounts by other parachutists who … [more below]
- Author: Senesh, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580233422
- Language: English
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The Japanese Empire
$30.00 Add to cartThe Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and beca… [more below]
- Author: Paine, S. C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: March 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1107676169
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I ma- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684874350
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
$27.00 Add to cart“Chilling… To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109928
- Language: English
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Art Deco Tulsa
$21.99 Add to cartTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation’s most talented architects, including Bru… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Wallis, Suzanne Fitzgerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859899
- Language: English
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Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )
$24.95 Add to cartElers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Elers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496213351
- Language: English
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
$19.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circlin- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429460
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$20.99 Add to cartThis lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction… [more below]
- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1982134267
- Language: English
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GaudÃ
$20.00 Read moreFrom the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560283
- Language: English
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Coolidge
$21.99 Read more“Amity Shlaes’s new biography carries a different and highly relevant message. . . . Read Coolidge, and better understand the forces bearing on the President and Congress almost a century later.” — P
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0061967599
- Language: English
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartIn this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.
In this reveal- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1439169829
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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1800 Mechanical Movements: Devices and Appliances
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating compendium of early-twentieth-century mechanical devices, this wide-ranging work covers a variety of applications. More than 1,800 engravings — ranging from simple diagrams to detailed … [more below]
- Series: Dover Science Books
- Author: Hiscox, Gardner D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457435
- Language: English
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Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
$22.95 Read moreIn the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author’s own voice-Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth brings to life the childhood years of a Michigan woman of both Native American and whi… [more below]
- Author: Keewaydinoquay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0472069209
- Language: English
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
$20.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE LAST VERMEER, STARRING GUY PEARCE: A revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger–a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush–and a deliciously detailed s
- Author: Lopez, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247842
- Language: English
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
$25.95 Add to cartA definitive history of the 20th century’s first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the- Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity #23
- Author: Suny, Ronald Grigor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175969
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
