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A Book About The Remarkable Life Of Elsie Macgill Who Achieved Many Firsts In Science And Engineering At A Time When Women Were Considered To Be Inferior In...

A detailed behind-the-scenes look at PBS Masterpiece's All Creatures Great and Small, based on James Herriott's beloved classic book series Welcome to the ...

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year"Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growi...

An Unabridged Edition Of Anne Frank's Diary Provides Insight Into Anne's Relationship With Her MotherCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &am...

In An American Story Of Enduring Importance, Jimmy Carter Re-creates His Depression-era Boyhood On A Georgia Farm, Before The Civil Rights Movement That Ch...

The May 2, 2011 Federal Election Turned Canadian Governance Upside Down And Inside Out. In His Newest And Possibly Most Controversial Book, Bestselling Auth...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first...

The Pioneer Years, 1830-1855 -- The Railroads Come Of Age, 1855-1875 -- The Explosive Years, 1875-1897 -- The Golden Years, 1897-1920 -- The Roaring Twentie...

The acclaimed author of A Death in Texas tells the riveting, morally complex story of a group of young Yemeni-American men from an upstate New York steel ...

This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the t...

Canadian Pacific Steamships was a worldwide travel network that included great passenger ships. Their highpoint for that arm might have been in the Twenties...

Introduction : Treading On Enchanted Ground -- Baltimore Looks West -- The Vast Machinery -- Network -- Default -- Riding The Rails -- The Soulless Corporat...

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in war-to...

An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas ...

A basic introduction and must-read for aspiring nurses, written by one of the founders of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.Categories: Medical BooksHist...

New York Times Bestseller In Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: The Funky Finds in Flavortown, Guy Fieri, one of Food Network’s biggest stars, keeps his motto ...

World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude and sw...

Product Description #1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue ...

For Centuries, The World Of Islam Was In The Forefront Of Human Achievement -- The Foremost Military And Economic Power In The World, The Leader In The Arts...

This book is a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of the capital’s history. Travelling through the villages and districts ...

Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again a major pa...

The Account Of An Unprecedented Feat Of Engineering, Vision, And Courage. It Is The Story Of The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad-the Investors W...

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the e...

Dramatically Recreates A Sequence Of Ten Decisions Made By Six Major Leaders Between May 1940 And December 1941 That Reshaped Human Destiny, From Churchill'...

The Greatest Canadian -- Practical Christian, 1904-24 -- Boy Preacher, 1924-31 -- Reluctant Candidate, 1931-35 -- Member Of Parliament, 1935-45 -- A New Pre...

Jenna Jameson With Neil Strauss.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySexuality

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBi...

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial...

From the very first handguns of the fifteenth century to modern machine guns and rifles, Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia is a highly illustrated volume that ...

gala Opera Evenings. Sudden Wealth And Fame. Dangerous Undercover Missions Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany. Standing Up To The Perils Of The Blitz. No One ...

Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ...

In A Moving Example Of Unconditional Love In Difficult Times, The Jesuit Priest And Bestselling Author Of Tattoos On The Heart, Gregory Boyle, Shares What T...

In This Overview, Historian H.v. Nelles Describes Canada's Story As One Of Continuous Transformation. From The First Nations That Had To Adapt First To A Ch...

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new...

This Book, A Chronicle Of The Early Sixteenth Century Creation Of The Waldseemuller Map Offers Insight Into How Monks, Classicists, Merchants, And Other Con...

The Author Of The Number-one New York Times Bestseller The Russia Hoax Picks Up Where That Book Ended With This Hard-hitting, Well-reasoned Examination Of T...

On The Land Of His Ancestors In Scotland, A Young Farmer Struggles To Find A Balance Between Farming, The Conservation Of Wild, And Human Culture As He Esta...

Conceived in the mid-Thirties for the RAF as an Army co-operation and liaison aircraft, Westland Aircraft designed and built the rugged high-wing monoplane ...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsom...

In an age when so many people only look forward, THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE combines new and traditional approaches to the past that, combined with an interpret...

This reader, edited by well-known author Mark Kishlansky, includes a diversity of historical documents from world and western history designed to supplement...

The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.\In 1942, America's deadl...

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named ...

Professor Allan J. Lichtman, Who Has Correctly Forecasted Thirty Years Of Presidential Outcomes, Makes The Case For Impeaching The 45th President Of The Uni...

It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of peo...

"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas’s narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."—The Wall Street Journal Anand Giri...

A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the ...

in The Spring Of 1851, Nine Members Of The Oatman Family Set Out For California On The Old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy Miles From The California Border They W...