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A Pocket Guide to the US Constitution: What Every American Needs to Know, Second Edition
$9.95 Add to cartThe Constitution is not so simple that it explains itself-nor so complex that only experts can understand it.
In this accessible, nonpartisan quick reference, historian Andrew Arnold provides concise
- Author: Arnold, Andrew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1626165580
- Language: English
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Mastering the Corporate Chess Game: Strategies for Advancing Your Career
$24.95 Add to cartA playbook for decoding unspoken rules of work culture and accelerating up the corporate ladder
Every workplace operates on a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. While business scho
- Author: Groves, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126509
- Language: English
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Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew
$29.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive biography of the “Father of the Blood Bank” and a champion of civil rights and equal health care
Genius Unbroken is the first comprehensive biography to bring the extraordinary
- Author: Miller, Craig A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126118
- Language: English
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Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye
Allan Pinkerton, the world’s most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascin
- Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125847
- Language: English
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Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
$39.95 Read moreThe first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC’s highly influential punk community
DIY culture has always been at the heart of DC’s thriving punk community. As Washington, DC’s punk
- Author: Davis, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126355
- Language: English
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Beginning Hindi: A Complete Course
$128.25 Read moreeTextbooks are now available through VitalSource.com!
Beginning Hindi is a complete first-year language textbook designed to help learners acquire the language by actively using it in realistic situati
- Author: Pien, Joshua H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1626160228
- Language: English
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The Library of Congress: From Jefferson’s Vision to the Digital Age
$32.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive history of the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress, home of the US Copyright Office, and a public forum for artistic and literary culture
- Author: Aikin, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125715
- Language: English
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The CIA Intelligence Analyst: Views from the Inside
$55.33 Read moreA unique insiders’ account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it matters
The common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad-a spy. However, the critical
- Author: George, Roger Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: September 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1647124700
- Language: English
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Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality
$24.95 Add to cartThe stories of the Black men and women who combated racial prejudice in Washington, DC, with sports and music
In the Nation’s Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of Africa
- Author: Jackson, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: February 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125219
- Language: English
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Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology
$29.95 Read moreThe story of the commercialization of biology by a pioneer in biotechnology patenting
Shortly after the emergence of genetic engineering in the 1970s, academic biologists were courted by venture capita
- Author: Goldstein, Jorge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647125197
- Language: English
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Thinking Bigger: A Pitch-Deck Formula for Women Who Want to Change the World
$29.95 Add to cartA guide for women entrepreneurs to help them get the financing they need to build big businesses and change our world
The lack of female representation among top-earning business founders is surprising
- Author: Dusek, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1647125081
- Language: English
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Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure
$29.95 Read moreA bold plan for the United States to regain the lead in infrastructure development through privatization and public-private partnerships
America’s infrastructure–its essential roads, bridges, ports, a
- Author: Wahba, Sadek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1647124964
- Language: English
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Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
$29.95 Read moreThese essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slav
- Author: Rothman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120969
- Language: English
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Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC
$29.95 Read moreBetween Freedom and Equality follows George Pointer-an enslaved African who purchased his freedom in 1793-and six generations of his descendants as they lived and worked in Washington, DC, granting th
- Author: Torrey, Barbara Boyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120810
- Language: English
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American Traitor: General James Wilkinson’s Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice
$34.95 Read moreA fresh examination of the life and crimes of the highest-ranking federal official ever tried for treason and espionage
American Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose
- Author: Cox, Howard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123429
- Language: English
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Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
$29.95 Read moreThe first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran
Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and cha
- Author: Goldstein, Mark L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123615
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America: Including Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute on Religious Freed
$4.95 Add to cartNever in history have 1,322 words held out such extraordinary determination to be free as those found in the Declaration of Independence. In 1787, “We the people” were the three words that not only en
- Author: Sunstein, Cass R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0878401431
- Language: English
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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
$19.95 Add to cartJan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Pol
- Author: Karski, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626160317
- Language: English
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Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence
$29.95 Add to cartBeing Present offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices–budgeted, entitled, competitive, and invitational–author Jeanine W.
- Author: Turner, Jeanine W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 164712154X
- Language: English
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Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue
$26.95 Read moreA Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups’ unspoken history, changing a narrative often dominated by the Grand Alliance and its fracturing. By engaging this history from our country’s origi
- Author: Johnson, Terrence L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164712140X
- Language: English
