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Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Opium A History Martin Booth St. Martin's Griffin Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Biting the Dust The Joys of Housework Margaret Horsfield Palgrave Macmillan In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Margaret Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons and scours the social, historical, literary and...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Warrior Woman The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman Peter Aleshire St. Martin's Press Warrior Woman is the story of Lozen, sister of the famous Apache warrior Victorio, and warrior in her own right. Hers is a story little discussed in Native...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The End of the World Lewis H. Lapham, Editor; Introduction by Simon Schama St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	The Excruciating History of Dentistry Toothsome Tales & Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces James Wynbrandt St. Martin's Griffin For those on both sides of the dreaded dentist's chair, James Wynbrandt has written a witty, colorful, and richly informative history of the art and science of...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	I See a Voice Deafness, Language and the Senses--A Philosophical History Jonathan Rée A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book A groundbreaking study of deafness, by a philosopher who combines the scientific erudition of Oliver Sacks with the historical flair of Simon Schama. There...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Waste and Want A Social History of Trash Susan Strasser A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Seeing Is Believing How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties Peter Biskind A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Midnight Sun and other stories of the unexplained Ghosts of the Old West (#2 of 2) Earl Murray Forge Books Everyone knows the song, Hotel California, right? "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave." Sure, it's a great song, but the Eagles had it...

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The Big Test

The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

Nicholas Lemann; With a new Afterword Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position...

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Hardcover : $27.50 Buy	In Search of the Immortals Mummies, Death and the Afterlife Howard Reid St. Martin's Press Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Russian Album Michael Ignatieff Picador Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries,...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Poyln Jewish Life in the Old Country Alter Kacyzne A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Winner of the National Jewish Book Award In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was comissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, Forverts, to document images of...

Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	While America Sleeps Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin's Griffin In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	A Force More Powerful A Century of Non-Violent Conflict Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall Palgrave Macmillan This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Family Ian Frazier Picador Using letters and other family documents, Frazier reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, reading...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Love and Exile An Autobiographical Trilogy Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his...

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Pillars of the Republic

Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860

Carl F. Kaestle Hill and Wang

Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems,...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Weimar Republic Detlev J. K. Peukert Hill and Wang The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central...

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	American Frontiers Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest Gregory H. Nobles Hill and Wang Gregory Nobles shows how American leaders, beginning with Washington and Jefferson, pursued a policy of national expansion and development that enabled the...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Reading American Photographs Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans Alan Trachtenberg Hill and Wang Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American Retold for Our Times Dee Brown; With illustrations by Louis Mofsie Holt Paperbacks This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Past Imperfect History According to the Movies Mark C. Carnes Holt Paperbacks In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts—and fiction—as seen in Hollywood’s often epic recreations...

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A Rumor of War

Philip Caputo Holt Paperbacks

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...

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