World War II Winter and Mountain Warfare Tactics
Written by Stephen Bull
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
Although prolonged warfare in subzero temperatures and/or at high altitude had occurred from time to time before 1900, the twentieth century saw an unprecedented emphasis on fighting in all terrains, seasons and weather conditions. Such conditions made even basic survival difficult as subzero temperatures caused weapons to jam, engines to seize...
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The Passage of Power
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.99
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"The fourth volume of Caro's prodigious masterwork . . . with the author's signature combination of sweeping drama, psychological insight and painstaking research."
NAMED ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TEN BEST NONFICTION...
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1491 (Second Edition)
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of...
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Rain of Gold
Written by Victor Villasenor
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $18.00
In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother–men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side by side…and in whose...
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Butterfly People
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Written by William R. Leach
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $32.50
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies...
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $11.99
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases...
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The Undivided Past
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages.
Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference, and...
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With the Old Breed
Written by E.B. Sledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $16.00
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom HanksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn
The Wall Street...
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