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Washington
by Fergus Bordewich  Publisher Comments Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a...
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Washington
by Fergus Bordewich Publisher Comments Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a...
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Washington
by Fergus Bordewich Publisher Comments Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a...
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Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, The
by Will Swift Publisher Comments In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of...
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Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, The
by Will Swift Publisher Comments In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of...
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Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, The
by Will Swift Publisher Comments In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of...
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Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
by Janice E. Thomson Publisher Comments The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved...
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by Eleanor Herman 
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is a witty and engaging book, intelligently written, with an endless amount of scandalous, hilarious, and eye-opening anecdotes. As Herman is the first to admit, though, many tales of the court were related by gossipy courtiers, memoirists eager...
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson Publisher Comments A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of...
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Labour in Irish History
by James Connolly Publisher Comments The Irish worker was beaten down nationally, emotionally, and intellectually when England took over. No longer able to control his tribeland he was subordinate to eviction and reproach at the hands of a proprietor. At this time workers had no legal...
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
by Cynthia Stokes Brown Publisher Comments An epic history of human civilization and of the universe that we inhabit, stretching back to the limits of what is scientifically knowable....
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Publisher Comments This is a devastating account of the American occupation of Iraq. It shows how Americans arrived in Iraq full of big plans (and/or lucrative contracts) to help the country become more like the United States, but wound up living an isolated existence...
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The Dig Tree
by Sarah P. Murgatroyd Publisher Comments <P>They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia, from Melbourne to...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
by Edward Gibbon Publisher Comments 'It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind...
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The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs
by Samuel W. Baker Publisher Comments THE journey along the margin of the Atbara was similar to the entire route from Berber, a vast desert, with the narrow band of trees that marked the course of the river; the only change was the magical growth of the leaves, which burst hourly from the...
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Publisher Comments Blessed with a gift for illuminating total history in books like Millennium, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto has become a fixture on the annual New York Times Notables list, time and again proving himself a brilliantly original and accessible historian. Now...
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Stalin
by Sarah Davies Publisher Comments The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking...
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The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Southern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt As Told By The Newspapers and Miners 1848-1860
by Lewis J. Swindle Publisher Comments This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1860, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Southern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt....
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Empire of Blue Water
by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655,...
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A Crime So Monstrous, Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
by E. Benjamin Skinner Publisher Comments To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard....
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