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The 1950s American Home
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
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The 1950s American Home
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
American Civil War Armies (4)
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
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Colonial Food
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence...
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Colonial Food
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence...
Read more >
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trade paperback.
First Bull Run 1861
The South's first victory
Written by Alan Hankinson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the personalities of the principal commanders... Read more >
The South's first victory
Written by Alan Hankinson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the personalities of the principal commanders... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The President and the Assassin
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
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The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Gettysburg: The Final Fury
Written by Bruce Catton
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $9.99
This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863. Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course... Read more >
Written by Bruce Catton
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $9.99
This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863. Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Gettysburg: The Final Fury
Written by Bruce Catton
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.00
This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863. Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course... Read more >
Written by Bruce Catton
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.00
This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863. Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Long May She Wave
A Graphic History of the American Flag
Written by Kit Hinrichs and Delphine Hirasuna
Foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $19.99
From one of the world's leading graphic designers comes a stunning tribute to America's most enduring icon-the Stars and Stripes.The Revolutionary Congress resolved in 1777 that "the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 white stars in a blue field representing... Read more >
A Graphic History of the American Flag
Written by Kit Hinrichs and Delphine Hirasuna
Foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $19.99
From one of the world's leading graphic designers comes a stunning tribute to America's most enduring icon-the Stars and Stripes.The Revolutionary Congress resolved in 1777 that "the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 white stars in a blue field representing... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Queen of the Air
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.00
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.00
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Queen of the Air
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Queen of the Air
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Read by Emma Bering
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $22.50
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Written by Dean N. Jensen
Read by Emma Bering
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $22.50
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed... Read more >
A Scattered People
Written by Gerald McFarland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
The movement of millions of ordinary people westward across the American continent was one of the great folk migrations of all time, stretching over two centuries and thousands of hard-traveled miles. Using a canvas as broad as the country itself, Gerald McFarland turns this journey into a resonant personal experience by... Read more >
Written by Gerald McFarland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
The movement of millions of ordinary people westward across the American continent was one of the great folk migrations of all time, stretching over two centuries and thousands of hard-traveled miles. Using a canvas as broad as the country itself, Gerald McFarland turns this journey into a resonant personal experience by... Read more >
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Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Written by Paul Collins
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.00
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Written by Paul Collins
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.00
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nation’s longest running “cold case,&rdquo...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Written by Paul Collins
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Written by Paul Collins
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nation’s longest running “cold case,&rdquo...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Fair America
World's Fairs in the United States
Written by Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling and Kimberly Pelle
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.95
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of... Read more >
World's Fairs in the United States
Written by Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling and Kimberly Pelle
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.95
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Kenneth C. Davis CD Audiobook Bundle
Don't Know Much About the Civil War; Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition; Don't Know Much About Anything
Written by Kenneth C. Davis
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $54.98
Three classic Kenneth C. Davis audiobooks are now available as an audiobook collection. Collection includes: Don’t Know Much About the Civil War, Don’t Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition, and Don’t Know Much About Anything
Don’t Know Much About the Civil War
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about... Read more >
Don't Know Much About the Civil War; Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition; Don't Know Much About Anything
Written by Kenneth C. Davis
Format: Boxed Set
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $54.98
Three classic Kenneth C. Davis audiobooks are now available as an audiobook collection. Collection includes: Don’t Know Much About the Civil War, Don’t Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition, and Don’t Know Much About Anything
Don’t Know Much About the Civil War
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about... Read more >
