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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	1066 The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry Andrew Bridgeford Walker & Company

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Gerald R. Ford

The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977

The American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

"Although Brinkley calls the pardon and its 'healing' effect on America Ford's most enduring legacy, he deftly describes other achievements. These including ending the divisive Vietnam War while doing his best to aid South Vietnam's refugees; helping to forge the 1975 Helsinki Accords that led the Soviet Union to acknowledge basic human rights and opened the way for its collapse, and fiscal policies that cut inflation in half and, according to Brinkley, boosted the U.S. economy out of its lowest trough since the Great Depression."—Jack Nelson, Los Angeles Times

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The Stone Fields

Love and Death in the Balkans

Courtney Angela Brkic Picador

"Harrowing . . . The Stone Fields is more than a memoir of the latest Balkan bloodletting. It is also an intimate history of the Balkans since the end of World War I. In sections entitled 'Herzegovina 1918-1931,' 'Sarajevo 1933-1945,' and 'Liberation 1945-1959,' Brkic re-creates the battered lives of her father's parents and sisters under the succession of regimes and circumstances that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire with an almost folkloric intensity . . . Brkic establishes character and complexity, including her own, with the authority of an experienced novelist."—Elinor Langer, The Oregonian

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Napoleon

Reputations

Michael Broers and R. S. Alexander Bloomsbury USA

Drawing on the latest scholarship, this study assesses the many reputations of Napoleon and how they have evolved, particularly how our historic view of Napoleon has been altered by such events as the World Wars and the Cold War, and by association with such figures as Hitler, Santa Anna, Mehemet Ali, and Mussolini. The author treats its subject as a universal figure on the world stage, rather than a specifically French one.

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Vermeer's Hat The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Timothy Brook Bloomsbury Press “Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown Holt Paperbacks Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Fighting Techniques of the Colonial Age 1776--1914 Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics Bruce, Robert B, Jestice, Phyllis G, and Schneid, Frederick C Thomas Dunne Books An essential guide for military buffs and a comprehensive re - source for a transitional period in military history, Fighting Techniques of the Colonial Age...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age Matthew Brzezinski Holt Paperbacks “In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	The Nature of Sacrifice A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64 Carol Bundy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., led a brief, intense life. Born in 1835 to a Boston family that for more than a century was a guiding force in the history of New...

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Ulysses S. Grant

The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877

The American Presidents

Josiah Bunting III; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

"Vivid, enjoyable, and well-written."—Kevin Baker, The New York Times Book Review

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The Greeks and Greek Civilization

Jacob Burckhardt; Edited and with an Introduction by Oswyn Murray; Translated by Sheila Stern St. Martin's Griffin

"Burckhardt's was one of the most profound and original historical minds that ever existed. This reconstruction of his work on ancient Greece is a wonderful contribution to our wisdom and knowledge."—Robert Conquest, author of The Harvest of Sorrow

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Cuban Star

How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball

Adrian Burgos, Jr. Hill and Wang

“Once again, Adrian Burgos has written a fascinating book about the stories behind the stories of the game of baseball. If you are at all curious about why the most common names in the major leagues are Martinez and Rodriguez, this elegant volume is for you.”—Ken Burns

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Change Up An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball Larry Burke and Peter Thomas Fornatale with Jim Baker Rodale Books Change Up is every fan’s box-seat ticket to a remarkable baseball event: a round-table conversation among the participants themselves about pivotal...

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The Third Reich

A New History

Michael Burleigh Hill and Wang

"Not merely the most comprehensive one-volume account of the Third Reich in any language, but an original work of interpretation in which straightforward narrative history, rigorous analytical explanation and unblinking intellectual-moral judgement are united with compelling originality."—Michael André Bernstein, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

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George Washington

The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797

The American Presidents

James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president Revolutionary...

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The Age of Lincoln

Orville Vernon Burton Hill and Wang

"We can be grateful if any are half as learned, lively and enriching as Orville Vernon Burton's The Age of Lincoln . . . He makes a virtue of jargon-free, accessible prose. But his language also allows readers to soak up the texture and complexity of developments with his sprawling, interlacing stories—stories with which all scholars may not always agree, but compelling tales that shed new light on America's complex heritage . . . The Age of Lincoln reminds us that ideas are everything, and a book bursting with so many of them will provide robust reading for years to come."—Catherine Clinton, Chicago Tribune (cover review)

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The Essential Lincoln

Speeches and Correspondence

Edited by Orville Vernon Burton Hill and Wang

“Orville Vernon Burton notes that ‘Lincoln chose his words deliberately,’ and so does Burton. His introductions and editorial notes are concise, lively, and reliable, and Lincoln’s words, as always, are gripping, brilliant, and deeply moving. There have been many collections of Lincoln’s writings, but this slender, thoughtfully selected compendium more than lives up to its title: essential.”—Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

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Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Pompeii The Living City Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence St. Martin's Press The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Hair Story Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps St. Martin's Griffin Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. ...

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The Lost King of France

How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Deborah Cadbury St. Martin's Griffin

Royalty, revolution, and scientific mystery---the dramatic true account of the fate of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Short History of Rudeness Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America Mark Caldwell Picador The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette...

Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Benjamin Harrison The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893 The American Presidents Charles W. Calhoun; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Wanderer The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails Erik Calonius St. Martin's Griffin "A compelling and heartrending record of a journey that helped push the nation to the brink of the Civil War."—*The Washington Times*

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The Trouble and Strife Reader

Edited by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon Bloomsbury USA

From 1983 to 2002, Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine was a distinctive voice in British feminism. It was the longest-surviving completely independent feminist periodical published in this period and it combined the intellectual depth of an academic journal with the accessibility, topicality and visual appeal of commercial feminist magazines. This is a collection of the best and most enduring articles published in the magazine during its 20-year life. It offers a unique historical record of an important strand of radical feminist debate, enabling old readers to revisit it and new readers to discover it.