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1848: Year of Revolution (Book)

Mike Rapport

ISBN:9780465020676

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815--but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:461

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A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Book)

Stephanie Coontz

ISBN:9780465002009

In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, "The Feminine Mystique." Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:222

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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (Book)

Philipp Blom

ISBN:9780465014538

The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:361

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American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (Book)

Richard John Neuhaus

ISBN:9780465020713

Christians are by their nature a people out of place. Their true home is with God; in civic life, they are alien citizens "in but not of the world." In "American Babylon...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:270

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Basic Economics 4th Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (Book)

Thomas Sowell

ISBN:9780465022526

Why are homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks of New York in the winter, when the abandoned apartment buildings in the city have four times as many dwelling units as there are homeless people in the city? Why did Russians have to import food to feed people in Moscow...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:689

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Berlin at War (Book)

Roger Moorhouse

ISBN:9780465005338

Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler's empire, the embodiment of his vision of a "world metropolis." Berlin was also the place where Hitler's Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured the full force of a Soviet siege.

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Book)

Timothy Snyder

ISBN:9780465002399

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:524

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Book)

Richard Wrangham

ISBN:9780465020416

Ever since Darwin and "The Descent of Man," the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in "Catching Fire...more details
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Climatopolis: The Future of Our Cities in a Hotter World (Book)

Kahn Matthew E

ISBN:9780465019267

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it. In "Climatopolis...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

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Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 (Book)

Joe Maiolo

ISBN:9780465011148

Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War?

In "Cry Havoc," historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:473

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Dismantling America (Book)

Thomas Sowell

ISBN:9780465022519

These wide-ranging essays--on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues--have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than an erosion. It has...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:341

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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson (Book)

Peter C Mancall

ISBN:9780465020317

The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In "Fatal Journey...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:303

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Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman (Book)

Leigh Schmidt

ISBN:9780465002986

The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:335

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Leningrad: State of Siege (Book)

Michael Jones

ISBN:9780465020355

"All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected," ordered Adolf Hitler on September 22, 1941, as Operation Barbarossa unfolded. "The problem of housing and feeding the people cannot and should not be solved by us. In this struggle for survival...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:322

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Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus (Book)

Oliver Bullough

ISBN:9780465021840

The jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfare. But today the region is best known for atrocities in Chechnya and the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.

In "Let Our Fame Be Great...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:496

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Manning Up: How the Feminist Revolution Turned Men Into Boys (Book)

Kay Hymowitz

ISBN:9780465018420

In "Manning Up," Manhattan Institute fellow and "City Journal" contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:240

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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (Book)

Sample Ian

ISBN:9780465019472

The biggest science story of our time, "Massive" spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God" particle...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:260

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Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist (Book)

Elliot Aronson

ISBN:9780465018338

How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:284

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Oil on the Water: The Naval War in the South Pacific (Book)

Eric M Bergerud

ISBN:9780813334844

Publication has been canceled...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:352

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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (Book)

Nancy Marie Brown

ISBN:9780465009503

The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages--in fact...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:310

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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming (Book)

Pielke Roger

ISBN:9780465020522

Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:276

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The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy (Book)

Hardy Green

ISBN:9780465018260

From the looms at colonial Lowell, Massachusetts, to the tire plants in Akron, Ohio, to Google's Project 02 in The Dalles, Oregon, the company town has mirrored the development of American capitalism. In "The Company Town...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:248

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The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind (Book)

Robert B Laughlin

ISBN:9780465020287

We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:186

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Book)

Thomas Metzinger

ISBN:9780465020690

We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In "The Ego Tunnel," philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a "self" exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain--an internal image...more details
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe (Book)

Andrew Wheatcroft

ISBN:9780465020812

Major historian Andrew Wheatcroft reveals the full story behind four centuries of Ottoman incursions into the heartlands of Europe.
In 1683...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:339

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The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 (Book)

Irving Kristol

ISBN:9780465022236

Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism and one of our most important public intellectuals, played an extraordinarily influential role in the development of American intellectual and political culture over the past half century. These essays...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:390

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The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us about Life After Loss (Book)

George A Bonanno

ISBN:9780465021901

We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But in "The Other Side of Sadness...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:231

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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (Book)

Timothy Snyder

ISBN:9780465018970

Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:344

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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (Book)

Shing-Tung Yau

ISBN:9780465020232

String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In "The Shape of Inner Space...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:377

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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 (Book)

Philipp Blom

ISBN:9780465020294

The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.
Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The hot topics of the day -- terrorism and globalization...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:466

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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 (Book)

Mark Thompson

ISBN:9780465020379

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:454

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There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters (Book)

Claire Berlinski

ISBN:9780465020270

Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline--ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:386

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Thoughtful Gardening (Book)

Robin Lane Fox

ISBN:9780465021963

In "Thoughtful Gardening," award-winning historian and "Financial Times" gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox takes readers on a delightful journey through each season of the gardening year. From fending off vine-weevils to visiting Yves Saint Laurent's private gardens in Marrakech...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:345

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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Book)

Mark Pendergrast

ISBN:9780465018369

"Uncommon Grounds" tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:424

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Alone Together: Sociable Robots, Digitized Friends, and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude (Book)

Sherry Turkle

ISBN:9780465010219

Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:360

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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Book)

Paul A Offit

ISBN:9780465021499

There's a silent, dangerous war going on out there. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about the dangers of vaccines, now wary of immunizing their sons and daughters. On the other side are doctors...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:270

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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (Book)

Susan R Barry

ISBN:9780465020737

A neuroscientist tells the remarkable story of how she rewired her own brain--and came to see the world anew.
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:249

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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War (Book)

Edwin Burrows

ISBN:9780465020300

Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:364

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Judaism for Gentiles (Book)

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

ISBN:9780465020454

Our culture is showing the cracks of a growing fracture. Soaring divorce rates; a crippled economy that rewards the few and punishes the many; religious-fueled hatred; record rates of depression--the headlines paint a grim picture. We inhabit a society that desperately needs fixing. But as Rabbi Shmuley Boteach reveals in his new book...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:220

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Song of Wrath: The Ten Years' War Between Athens and Sparta (Book)

Ted Lendon

ISBN:9780465015061

"Song of Wrath" tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431- 421 BC) against grim Sparta--the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:566

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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Book)

Gregory Cochran

ISBN:9780465020423

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets (Book)

Alan Boss

ISBN:9780465020393

We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe--we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any?

In "The Crowded Universe...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:227

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The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the World's Biggest Markets (Book)

Emily Lambert

ISBN:9780465018437

In "The Futures," Emily Lambert, senior writer at "Forbes" magazine, tells us the rich and dramatic history of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:226

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The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President (Book)

Steven M Gillon

ISBN:9780465020362

Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 P.M. The Secret Service sped him away to safety...more details
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The Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love (Book)

Thomas Maier

ISBN:9780465020409

In "Masters of Sex," critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier offers an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:411

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The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder (Book)

David Thomson

ISBN:9780465020706

It killed its star off after forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film. The shrieking strings of the soundtrack seared the national consciousness--nothing like "Psycho" had existed before.

Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:183

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The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw, Emotional World of Male Teens (Book)

Malina Saval

ISBN:9780465020324

Teenage boys have come a long way since the staid 1980s when they were all lumped into the "Breakfast Club" categories of Brains, Druggies, and Jocks. Crisscrossing the country--meeting with boys from different cultures...more details
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Vaccine a: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only the First Victims (Book)

Gary Matsumoto

ISBN:9780465021826

Vaccine-A uncovers a story of betrayal -- the betrayal of the men and women who serve in the armed forces, the betrayal of medical ethics, and the betrayal of the American people by military and civilian leaders sworn to defend and protect...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:362

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Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (Book)

Michael Eric Dyson

ISBN:9780465020799

Former welfare father, ordained Baptist minister, and Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is best known for taking black studies "to the streets" with his passion for popular culture and his commitment to urban youth. Here he unearths the hidden rules that poison our language...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:240

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The Third World of Theory (Book)

Henry Louis Jr Gates

ISBN:9780465014101

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s "Tradition and the Black Atlantic" is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:205

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