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Product DescriptionIn the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. In front of 20,000 people.... 

Product DescriptionMichael Durant became the focus for these events when his Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over the city of Mogadishu. He crash-landed in enemy ground, breaking his spine and both legs. His helicopter was quickly surrounded by merciless Somali troops. After a sustained gun battle in which his co-pilot... 

ISBN13: 9780465020430 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAfter World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powers—the Americans, the British,... 

Product DescriptionThis moving personal document is a life-affirming tribute to the beauty and tenacity of the human spirit in the face of horror. Anne kept track of her thoughts about life, human nature, her relationship with her family, and allowed a tender love story to emerge. Julie Harris’ dramatic reading enables... 

ISBN13: 9780465024773 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The Rise of the Creative Class gives us... 

Product DescriptionThis read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world’s civilizations. Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lievs—and our children need to learn about the other... 

ISBN13: 9780547248028 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWhen the Allies stormed Berlin in 1945, Adolf Eichmann, the operational manager of the Final Solution, shed his SS uniform and vanished. Bringing him to justice would require a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching... 

Product DescriptionEdited, with an Introduction, by R.J. Wilson Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin  Read More →

ISBN13: 9780345520012 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIt was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when... 

ISBN13: 9780195365535 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFew personalities from classical antiquity are more familiar yet more poorly grasped than Cleopatra (69-30 BC), queen of Egypt. The subject of a vast repertory of post-antique popular culture and also a significant... 

Product DescriptionWhat terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi’s tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last Roman Emperor? Told in the straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer’s trademark,... 

Product DescriptionThe book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Middle ages; History / Europe / General; History / Medieval; Social Science / Sociology... 

ISBN13: 9781595583260 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks... 

ISBN13: 9780767917186 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining... 

Product DescriptionSo many unkind things have been said of the affair at Morris Valley that I think it best to publish a straightforward account of everything. The ill nature of the cartoon, for instance, which showed Tish in a pair of khaki trousers on her back under a racing-car was quite uncalled for. Tish did not wear the... 

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ISBN13: 9780446546928 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionOn 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 leave “a lasting impression on the world.” Their bombs... 

Product DescriptionFrom an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline,... 

Product DescriptionTranslated by V. Harris. Japan’s answer to the Harvard MBA…Written over three centuries ago by a Samurai warrior, the book has been hailed as a limitless source of psychological insight for businessmen-or anyone who relies on strategy and tactics for outwitting the competition.Amazon.com ReviewTo... 

ISBN13: 9781565115149 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWinner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible... 

ISBN13: 9780061969843 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century, a moment that left a family and a nation mourning, one that many Americans recall as their first historical memory—the assassination of President... 

ISBN13: 9780307589675 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Forced by her father to marry a... 

ISBN13: 9780891419068 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War.... 

Product DescriptionFrom the acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men comes a major new World War II history that describes the developments of America’s crucial wartime alliance with England that became so decisive in defeating Hitler. Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: Citizens of London... 

ISBN13: 9780739328347 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAfter stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett... 

Product DescriptionFor decades, American foreign policy has been based on the seductive belief that there exists a logical relationship between power of states and the physics of change. And yet today policies designed to make us safer instead make the world more perilous. History’s grandest war against terrorism creates... 

ISBN13: 9780670034826 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description The inspiring account of one man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend... 

Review Reading in his signature dispassionate style, narrator Edward Herrmann brings an eerie calm to this powerful chronicle of the deadliest storm ever to hit the United States–a huge and terribly destructive hurricane that struck land near Galveston, Texas in September of 1900. Author Erik Larson re-creates the events...