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Here Lies Hugh Glass
A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

Hill and Wang
In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass’s fellows rushed to his aid...
  
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The Elizabethans

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor...
  
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

Hill and Wang
The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the...
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Freedom's Cap
The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War

Hill and Wang
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the...
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The Boy
A Holocaust Story

Hill and Wang
A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most...
  
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Poisoning the Press
Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

Picador
A Washington Post Best Book of 2010 A Denver Post Best Book of 2010 A Kansas City Star Best Book of 2010 Poisoning the Press recounts the bitter...
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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

Hill and Wang
In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth...
  
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Amexica
War Along the Borderline

Picador
With a New Afterword In 2009, Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tijuana to...
  
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Children of Fire
A History of African Americans

Hill and Wang
Ordinary people don’t experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same...
  
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Franklin and Eleanor
An Extraordinary Marriage

Picador
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage...
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Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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All But My Life
A Memoir

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Picador
"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda

Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century

Picador
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction...
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

Hill and Wang
After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in...
  
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Crescent and Star
Turkey Between Two Worlds

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head.” —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer In the first edition of this...
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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Picador
Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
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Changes in the Land, Revised Edition
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Hill and Wang
The book that launched environmental history now updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William...
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The Theory and Practice of Hell
The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities...
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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Picador
Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both...
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Sea of Gray
The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah

Hill and Wang
The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of...
  
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Machete Season
The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Picador
During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war....
  
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Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn

North Point Press
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people...