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Tales from the Front Line Trafalgar
David (Editor), Charles
Editors of David & Charles,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by F+W Media
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$17.94
The Seventies Unplugged
Gerard Degroot
If the 1960s was the decade of peace, love and understanding, the 1970s was the decade of glitter and glam rock. Or was it? Gerard DeGroot peels away the polyester to examine what really happened in a decade that began with the death of Jimi Hendrix and ended with Ronald Reagan in the White House...
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$12.99
Pictures from Italy
Kate Flint, Charles Dickens
In PICTURES FROM ITALY, Charles Dickens brings his quirky perspective to a tour of the country in the mid-1840s, looking askance at the domination of the Catholic church, but always alive to the beauty of the place and to the rich traditions of Italian culture. He did not, however, fail to be out...
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$6.99
Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
Dale L. Walker
Dale L. Walker,NOOK Book (eBook) - First Edition, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
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$12.24
Marshal Petain
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Faber and Faber
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$10.32
The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain
Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang
Published in time for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this new history broadens and deepens our understanding of an event that became an instant legend. For the first time, The Burning Blue brings together the facts, the legends, the memories and the judgement of historians in a pa...
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$6.99
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
Steven Nadler
In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city’s intellectual and cultural...
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$24.95
Finland
Richard Lewis
Finland is one of the developed world's best-kept secrets. This small, cold, and isolated country of the north leads the world in various fields of technology, network readiness, global competitiveness, research and creativity, . . . enrollments in universities and colleges, empowerment of women,...
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$47.17
Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy
John Maxwell O'Brien
`O'Brien has combined faultless scholarship with poetic vision to penetrate the events of Alexander's extraordinary life and reveal the tragic pattern obscured by these tumultous events. This is not only biography; it is art.' F Salvidio
Biography & Autobiography, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials, History
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$32.02
Storytelling and Imagination: Beyond Basic Literacy 8-14
Rob Parkinson
Storytelling and Imagination: Beyond Basic Literacy 8-14 is the complete guide to using creative storytelling in the primary school classroom and for transitions to Key Stage 3 at secondary school.
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$10.99
1959: The Year Everything Changed
Fred Kaplan
Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed"An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and science - that have brought...
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$41.38
The Postcolonial Politics of Development
Ilan Kapoor
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$116.01
Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings
Geoffrey Nash
Comte Arthur de Gobineau is an important figure in the development of European Orientalism. This book makes available for the first time to an English reader the key writings of a hugely original nineteenth Century French writer on the Near East.
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$36.82
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People's War
Beverley Milton-Edwards
This book provides readers with a topical, easily accessible but academically sound and well-researched account of the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its various contemporary dimensions.
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$17.36
The Archaeology of Home
Katharine Greider
The history of the author's own New York City house is the framework for an evocative meditation on the growth of America, and the meaning of home
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$13.59
Fighting to Leave
Robert E. Stoffey
Perhaps more vexing than any part of the Vietnam War--Americas longest--was getting out. This book offers a chronicle of those last difficult years, 1972 and 1973, that is at once a detailed and thorough overview and at the same time a vividl...
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$20.50
The Art of BMW
Peter Gantriis
BMW began its life in aero-engineering--as anyone who’s ever ridden one of its motorcycles might guess. These are bikes as close to airborne as any get. And what’s more, fifty percent of all the motorcycles BMW has manufactured a...
History, Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Transportation / Motorcycles
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$12.96
The Old-Time River Rats
Kenny Salwey
Colorful characters once populated the Upper Mississippi River Valley swamps and floodplain forests. These are the river rats, hill folk, and swamp dogs whose stories Kenny Salwey tells so well. Now long gone, these legendary denizens of the...
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The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History
Thomas J. Craughwell
Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth century covered almost one-sixth of the Earth&rsq...
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The Nuclear Express
Thomas C. Reed
This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly...