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Combining Memoir With Vivid Scenes At The Table; Interviews With The World's Most Renowned Chefs, Restaurateurs, And Eaters; And A Few Well-placed Rants And...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida will lead you straight to the best attractions the Sunshine State has to offer. Explore the state's history, architectu...

This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family pla...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

Clean pages. Bottom corner of book is lightly curled, sticker on back cover, name written on inside cover - other than that it's in good shape!Categories: H...

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

Displaying Gleaming New Shopping Centers And Refurbished Row Houses, Harlem Today Bears Little Resemblance To The Neighborhood Of The Midcentury Urban Crisi...

Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and p...

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

Reading Like A True-crime Novel, This History Of The Vice District And Gang Wars Of New York's Chinatown From The 1890s Through The 1930s Describes The Wide...

chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Has Been Called The Stonehenge Of North America. Its Spectacular Pueblos, Or Great Houses, Are World Famous And Have Attracted T...

An admirer of Pirate president Barney Dreyfuss, prolific baseball writer Frederick G. Lieb consorted with the club’s biggest stars, christened the legend...

framed By Its Historic Harbor And Rivers, Poised Between Old And New, Boston Is A Special Place With A Dynamic Story. This Up-to-date Photographic Study D...

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

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC’s Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. A successf...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this wild and sceni...

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

on May 12, 1960, As John F. Kennedy Campaigned For The Presidency, Chester Burge—slumlord, Liquor Runner, And The Black Sheep Of The Proud (and Wealthy)...

Truman Capote Called His Account Of The 1959 Murder Of A Kansas Farm Family A Nonfiction Novel. Using Information He Collected Through Townspeople And The K...

The Shocking True Story Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Prolific Female Serial Killers.--book Jacket. Belle Gunness Engaged In Wholesale Slaughter, P...

Originally part of the Rivers of America Series, The Ohio traces the river from its headwaters in Pittsburgh to the point it empties into the Mississippi,...

A remarkable environmental success story! Publishers Weekly Cherry traces the ecological evolution of New England's Nashua River--how it was respected by ...

The Author Of Reclaiming The Gods And The Isle Of Avalon Now Details The Fascinating Significance Of The Design Of The U.s. Capital. Nicholas R. Mann. Inclu...

In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and...

In New Hampshire, nestled among the foothills of the White Mountains, lies one of the most beautiful bodies of water anywhere in the world, Lake Winnipesauk...

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...

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...

Guns In America Have A History. The Violence They Cause Came About From A Series Of Decisions. To Reverse Them There Is A Series Of Solutions. This Is Your ...

This Blockbuster Narrative Provides The First Behind-the-scenes, Authoritative Account Of The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex’s Marriage, By The New York Times...

Over Two Unbelievable Decades, The New England Patriots Were Not Only The Nfl's Most Dominant Team, But Also--and By Far--the Most Secretive. How Did They A...

The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories ...

Want to be known as the Detroit Red Wings' second "Mr. Hockey"?Then prove yourself in the next Wings trivia challenge by blowing away the competition!The en...

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical...

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nat...

Photographers Rogers and Greebon capture the beauty and unique culture of Texas' capital city, also known as "The Live Music Capital of the World." This pho...

Drew Gilpin Faust Writes About Coming Of Age In A Conservative Southern Family In Postwar America-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: History WorldWomen in ...

Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest baseball player of all time, John Peter "Honus" Wagner enjoyed a remarkable career with the Pittsburg...

A New York Times Technology Correspondent Presents The Dramatic Rise And Fall Of Uber, Set Against The Rapid Upheaval In Silicon Valley During The Mobile Er...

As Part Of The Treaty Of Paris, In Which Great Britain Recognized The New United States Of America, Britain Ceded The Land That Comprised The Immense Northw...

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles sets forth the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information from declassified federal documents...

In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Sou...

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

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics prog...

Vintage Views Along the West Pike:From Sand Trails to US-31 is a pictorial history of Michigan's most famous road. The historic West Michigan Pike, original...

two Men, Each Handsome And Unusually Adept At His Chosen Work, Embodied An Element Of The Great Dynamic That Characterized America’s Rush Toward The Twenti...

Describes The Origins Of Nascar Racing In The World Of Southern Moonshiners, Who Used Fast Ford Cars To Transport Bootleg Alcohol During The Depression And ...