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Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The... |
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Acclaimed historian Jeffry D. Wert presents the first full-scale biography in more than twenty years of J. E. B. Stuart, the most colorful---and controversial---Confederate cavalryman.
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| A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards
Perhaps the most romantic travel book ever written
“From earliest boyhood when on the banks of the Hudson I first pored over... |
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we're doing. ---Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia With more than... |
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"Is Paris burning?" is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city. Few moments in history are as stirring as the... |
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The Stalin Epigram is a masterful rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, one of Russia's greatest poets of the twentieth century. His heroic protest against the Stalin... |
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A world-renowned paleontologist reveals astonishing new science that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur. In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've... |
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Reduce, reuse, recycle, urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book,... |
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A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears...This collection of eight world-famous... |
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Audie Murphy brings us his own first-hand experience of death in war in the opening pages of his classic WWII memoir, and depicts the harrowing events of the war with a direct and immediate style,... |
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