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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 : $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 : $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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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	The Boys The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks Fewer than 100,000 Jews survived the death camps. This is the story of 732 of those Jews--all under the age of sixteen in 1945. It is the story of what they...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Every Man Will Do His Duty An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson, 1793-1815 Edited by Dean King with John B. Hattendorf, Ph.D. Holt Paperbacks The phenomenal success of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels has spawned a great hunger for more reading material on the Royal Navy and the Napoleonic Wars....

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Famine Ships The Irish Exodus to America Edward Laxton Holt Paperbacks Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Terrible Secret Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution" Walter Laqueur; With a New Introduction by the Author Holt Paperbacks Laqueur's new introduction, written for this paperback edition of his classic work, revives the lesson of the Holocaust and broadens our understanding of one...

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History Wars

The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

Edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

From the “taming of the West” to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Never Done A History of American Housework Susan Strasser; With a New Preface A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Cold War A History Martin Walker Holt Paperbacks "The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954." So begins this wide-ranging narrative by an award-winning political commentator,...

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Brotherhood of the Bomb

The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Gregg Herken A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict...

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Plague

A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Away

Edward Marriott A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“You thought the bubonic plague had gone the way of powdered wigs? Try again: It could happen anytime. Edward Marriott’s dramatic, gripping new...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	American Mafia A History of Its Rise to Power Thomas Reppetto A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book "Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book...

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The Tycoons

How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Charles R. Morris Holt Paperbacks

“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”—The Christian Science Monitor The modern...

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Democracy Reborn

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America

Garrett Epps Holt Paperbacks

“Engaging . . . With a novelist’s eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an . . . enthralling book.”—David W. Blight, Chicago Tribune The last...

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Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.”—Terry Eagleton, The Nation Widely...

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Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	Cross of Iron The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918-1945 John Mosier A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “In smooth, economical prose, [Mosier] incorporates a number of thought-provoking insights and hypotheses . . . This is a stimulating overview of a war...

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Peniel E. Joseph Holt Paperbacks

“Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and...

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The Accidental Empire

Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977

Gershom Gorenberg Holt Paperbacks

“Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars.”—The New York Times Book Review In The...

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Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	Lost Battalions The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality Richard Slotkin A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis . . . Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity.”—David Levering Lewis, The...

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