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World History General Browse more titles in World History General The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Staff Pick In this remarkable tale of the nation's largest forest fire ... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list World History Asia Browse more titles in World History Asia Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Sale Books A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World by Robert Bringhurst Publisher Comments The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list US History General Browse more titles in US History General A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation by Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki Publisher Comments Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list World History Africa Browse more titles in World History Africa Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list US History Kennedy Family Browse more titles in US History Kennedy Family True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy Staff Pick Too long a late-night-comedy punch line, the late Senator Kennedy led an undeniably fascinating life. Filled with riveting stories and enlivened by Kennedy's refreshing candor, True Compass is a fitting tribute to a life that was almost too big for one... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list World History 1650 to Present Browse more titles in World History 1650 to Present Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments Elegant and quietly important...Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity's interdependence.--Seattle Times A... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list US History 20th Century Browse more titles in US History 20th Century Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States) by Gordon S. Wood Publisher Comments The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Sale Books Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past by Giles Tremlett Publisher Comments “Part modern social history, part travelogue, Ghosts of Spain is held together by elegant first-person prose…an invaluable book…[that] has become something of a bible for those of us extranjeros who have chosen to live in Spain. A... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Tuesday, December 29, 2009 The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World by Robert Bringhurst A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation by Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki Author Events History Thursday, January 21, 2010   Douglas Brinkley Guests | November 6, 2009 Badass Authors: George Orwell 6 comments By Ben Thompson "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." —George Orwell, 1984 While fighting Nazis in the... Continue » $9.99 New Mass Market add to wish list 1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Original Essays | November 5, 2009 Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground 0 comments By John Buntin For more than 60 years, Los Angeles's origins, its underbelly, and (yes) its blondes have fueled the imagination of writers and directors from... Continue » Original Essays | October 27, 2009 The Texas Rangers Versus the Texas Rangers 0 comments By Mike Cox My two-volume history,The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 and Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present, is... Continue » $15.99 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 Mike Cox

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