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The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $28.00

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
 
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights... Read more >

The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.99

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
 
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights... Read more >

How the States Got Their Shapes Too
The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $16.95

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?  Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?  How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado?  All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >

Wicked River
The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Written by Lee Sandlin

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95

A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century.
 
Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River brings to life a place where river...

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Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Written by Lennard Bickel
Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $15.99

Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and... Read more >

How the States Got Their Shapes Too
The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $24.95

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?  Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?  How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado?  All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >

How the States Got Their Shapes Too
The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $16.95

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?  Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?  How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado?  All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >

The Book of Marvels
An Explorer's Miscellany
Written by Mark Collins Jenkins

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $30.00

In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate "There be dragons." And those fortunate adventurers who made it home again always had fantastical tales to tell—even if sometimes they stretched the... Read more >

Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Other Perversities
Pop Culture of the 1970s and 1980s
Written by George Rose

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2008
Price: $30.00

Celebrity culture in the 1970s and 1980s, through the lens of an award-winning photojournalist.

As a young photographer working in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, George Rose had his shutter finger on the pulse of the Hollywood scene, documenting film premieres and award ceremonies, arena concerts and Sunset Strip nightclubs... Read more >

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
A Century by the Sea
Written by Santa Cruz Seaside Company

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $28.95

Warm sand and cool surf. The sweet scent of cotton candy and the thrill of your first roller coaster ride. These are the kinds of memories the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has inspired over its first hundred years as one of America'¬?s oldest and most beloved seaside amusement parks.Colorfully illustrated with... Read more >