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A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul."\From Marion Davies'...

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

In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own ...

Knowledgeable experts have ranked Elizabeth Van Lew as one of the best female spies of all time. Until Dr. Wyman's comprehensive The Chosen Path, little was...

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bus...

Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have b...

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...

Prologue: Our Title To India -- Empire At War -- Harvesting The Colonies -- Scorched -- At Any Price -- Death Of A Thousand Cuts -- An Occupied And Starving...

A New Edition Of A Definitive History Of American Environmental Policy, Focusing On Policies From 1970 To The Trump Administration And Their Historical Cont...

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 ...

sifting Carefully Through Reports From Newspapers, Magazines, Personal Memoirs, And Letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 Brings Readers More Of The Best First...

An Account Of The Chicago World's Fair Of 1893 Relates The Stories Of Two Men Who Shaped The History Of The Event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, Who Coordina...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "gold...

Touraj Daryaee. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [109]-135) And Index.Categories: History Middle EastIran

robert Collins Examines The Critical And Controversial Developments Of The 1980s And The Unmistakable Influence Of Ronald Reagan On Their Making. Portrayi...

American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickn...

". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of...

The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories -- of poor immigrants who flocked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatni...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the ...

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

For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal contex...

The First Vice Lord is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district-the Levee. For the first ti...

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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, ...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the cour...

Researchers Have Spent The Last Decade Trying To Develop A Pink Pill For Women To Function Like Viagra Does For Men. So Where Is It? Well, For Reasons This ...

The Story Of Two Cold War Spies - Cia Agent Jack Platt And Kgb Agent Genya Vasilenko - And Their Improbable Friendship At A Time When They Should Have Been ...

Some Christians decry the deism of our Founding Fathers, claiming that outright anti-Christian principles lie at the heart of our Declaration of Independen...

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-tol...

How The Grove Became Gay : 1936-1945 -- Built Upon The Sand -- The Gay Country Club : 1946-1959 -- The Battle For The Beach -- Conviviality And Camp -- Trou...

Its hooves were supposedly a cure for epilepsy; it is the mascot of the Seattle Mariners baseball team and the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch; and...

The American Republic, written in 1865, is a part of the Conservative Leadership Series, and proves to remain a cornerstone of American thinking, a great in...

The Definitive Ranking Of The Greatest Football Players Of All Time-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: HistoryUnited States

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

The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco o...

An unprecedented exposé of Soviet espionage in the United States during the 1930s and 40s This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come t...

"A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extre...

The experience of war has affected every generation in the 20th and 21st century. Every soldier has a story to tell, and since the year 2000 the Veteran's H...

Based On The Blog With More Than A Million Loyal Fans, A Beautiful, Heartfelt, Funny, And Inspiring Collection Of Photographs Capturing The Spirit Of A City...

The New York Times Bestseller *One of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of 2015*An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Pett...

Born Into A Wealthy, Politically Influential Indian Family In The Waning Years Of The Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru Was Raised, Under His Father's Careful Guidance,...

A new and inspiring compilation of a lifetime of documenting the city's heritage by Seattle public historian, Paul Dorpat. The most compelling and essential...

Featuring A Wide Array Of Iconic Rock Posters, Period Photographs, Music Memorabilia And Light Shows, Out-of-this-world Clothing, And Avant-garde Films, Thi...

Based on hundreds of interviews and years of research, an intimate and revealing portrait of the Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, reveals ...

The Definitive Book On Freedmen's Teachers In The South As Well As An Outstanding Contribution To Social History And Our Understanding Of African American E...