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"This beautifully illustrated book. . . . [is] Both an ethnographic study and an homage to a culture." -Los Angeles Times "Text and pictures combine to giv...

as Meaningful Today As It Was When Sigurd F. Olson Wrote It, the Singing Wilderness Is An Essential Antidote To The Trials Of Modern Life. This Unique Volu...

Children's author Bobbie Kalman's new series Native Nations of North America is an ongoing series that looks at the lives of the indigenous peoples of Nort...

In The Late Nineteenth Century, People Were Obsessed By One Of The Last Unmapped Areas Of The Globe: The North Pole. No One Knew What Existed Beyond The For...

Elizabeth R. Varon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 435-487) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

The Author Describes How Her Honeymoon Was Cut Short When Her Plane Crashed In The Jungles Of Peru, Forcing Her And Her Husband To Try To Survive Aboard A M...

A pictorial celebration of New Mexico’s history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico’s statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the vario...

Susan Orlean Reopens The Unsolved Mystery Of The Most Catastrophic Library Fire In American History, And Delivers A Dazzling Love Letter To A Beloved Instit...

Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story-...

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum...

This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother—a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, m...

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing...

liddell Hart Considered General Sherman The Dominant Military Genius Of The Civil War; To Prove His Point, He Traced Sherman's Military Campaigns, From The ...

Finally, nine-hole golf courses are getting their due! The goals of this colorful, practical book is to recognize and celebrate the US and Canadian courses...

Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, fr...

Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America...

Imperialism in the Modern World combines narrative, primary and secondary sources, and visual documents to examine global relations in the nineteenth and t...

Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the...

**the National Bestseller** From The Acclaimed, Bestselling Author Of Turn Right At Machu Picchu, A Fascinating, Wild, And Wonder-filled Journey Into Alaska...

David Kipen Scoured The Archives Of Libraries, Historical Societies, And Private Estates To Assemble A Kaleidoscopic View Of Los Angeles From The Spanish Mi...

Surfboards are not mere tools for wave-riding. To those passionate and dedicated about surfing, a board can also be a trusted talisman in perilous waters, ...

What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian t...

The Washington Journey is a 7th grade history textbook. The outline for this book is based on Washington's NEW Essential Academic Learning Requirements for ...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.â...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new repo...

The sequel to The Cage and To Life continues Sender's account of her struggle to build a new life in America, her battle to cope with her horrific memories...

Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students...

From New York Times Bestselling Historian H. W. Brands, The Epic Struggle Over Slavery As Embodied By John Brown And Abraham Lincoln, Two Men With Radically...

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. ...

On an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives ...

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights move...

Tobin Met Ozella Williams In The Old Market Building In Charleston, South Carolina, And Learned Of The Oral Tradition And Coded Quilts Used To Navigate Esca...

Provides An Account Of One Of The Greatest National Disasters The United States Has Ever Experienced And Its ConsequencesCategories: Science & Math Natu...

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, and to le...

This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother—a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, m...

The Transition From President Donald J. Trump To President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Stands As One Of The Most Dangerous Periods In American History. But As # 1 I...

A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.In the spring of 1862, many Americans still b...

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective history...

Garry Wills, Both Historian And Journalist, Exercises Both Crafts In Turn. Sometimes Gossipy, Sometimes Philosophical, He Traces The Lines Of Power In The K...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines acr...

The 1988 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers are best remembered for Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run, Orel Hershiser’s pitching dominance, and man...

With Authoritative Reporting Honed Through Eight Presidencies From Nixon To Obama, Author Bob Woodward Reveals In Unprecedented Detail The Harrowing Life In...

Hillary Clinton's Candid Reflections About The Key Moments During Her Time As Secretary Of State, As Well As Her Thoughts About How To Navigate The Challeng...

A Biography Of The Governor Of New York Examining His Life And Career, His Achievements, And Why He May Be Interested In Running For The Presidency. Robert ...

A Definitive History Of Hollywood's Most Iconic, Storied, And Scandalous Hotel. For Nearly Ninety Years, Hollywood's Brightest Stars Have Favored The Chatea...