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Alexandria: The Last Night of Cleopatra

Alexandria: The Last Night of Cleopatra

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and ...

Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip

Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American ...

Britannia - the Failed State: Tribal Conflicts and the End of Roman Britain

Britannia - the Failed State: Tribal Conflicts and the End of ...

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May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France

May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France

Mitchell Abidor

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Tudors: The History of England

Tudors: The History of England

A History of the American People

A History of the American People

James Truslow Adams

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Madeleine Albright

British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs and Evangelicals, 1756-1840

British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs ...

Roshan Allpress

Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

Benjamin L. Alpers

The Freedom to Be Free: From Thinking Without a Banister

The Freedom to Be Free: From Thinking Without a Banister

A Vintage Short (1)

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical ...

Catharine Arnold

The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization: A Political and Cultural History

The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrializat[..] A Political ...

Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond

Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political ...

Life After Life

Life After Life

Todd Family (1)

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts

David Baggett & Shawn E. Klein & William Irwin

The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey

The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi ...

Diana Meyers Bahr

Palgrave Studies in Oral History (1)

Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's ...

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century ...

Jakub S. Beneš

The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism

The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle ...

American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power

American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage ...

Andrea Bernstein

China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

Richard Bernstein

Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax

Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax

Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814

Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814

The conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945

The conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's ...

Michael Beschloss

3 Para

3 Para

Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas

Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas

Ned Blackhawk & Isaiah Lorado Wilner

Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol

Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, ...

Julia Ramírez Blanco

Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to ...

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography

Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl

Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the ...

The Illustrated Secret History of the World

The Illustrated Secret History of the World

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John ...

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge ...

Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War

Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War

Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe

Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere ...

Anna Brickhouse

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable ...

Living With Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Living With Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of ...

Leslie Brown & Anne Valk

Palgrave Studies in Oral History (1)

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, ...

Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives

Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements ...

The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi

The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi

Fighting to Lose: How the German Secret Intelligence Service Helped the Allies Win the Second World War

Fighting to Lose: How the German Secret Intelligence Service ...

One Summer: America 1927

One Summer: America 1927

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French ...

Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Vincent Bugliosi

In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965

Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making ...

Michael Burleigh

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: A History of Now

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: A History of Now

Michael Burleigh

Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

James MacGregor Burns

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer ...

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series (1)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard ...

Zachary D. Carter

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fernando Cervantes

Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Alfred D Chandler Jr. & Takashi Hikino

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, With a New Preface

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer ...

Alfred D Chandler Jr. & Takashi Hikino & Andrew von Nordenflycht

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the ...

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.