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Dance Of Death

Dance Of Death

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis

Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis

Elizabeth Campisi

Oxford Oral History Series (1)

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital ...

Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne

Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad

Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental ...

Walter R. Borneman

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The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed With Paper Money

The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed ...

Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge ...

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race ...

Katherine Clarke

100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight ...

Samuel G. Freedman

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey ...

The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things

The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the ...

Why Empires Fall

Why Empires Fall

John Rapley & Peter Heather

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life ...

David Von Drehle

Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, ...

Victor Luckerson

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall ...

Sebastian Edwards

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, ...

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking ...

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient ...

Simon Winchester

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour

Scott Samuelson

The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

Samuel W. Franklin

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum ...

Sharon Ann Murphy

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern ...

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the ...

James M Zimmerman

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and ...

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over ...

Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency

Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency

Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite

Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved ...

How Data Happened: A History From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

How Data Happened: A History From the Age of Reason to the Age ...

Chris Wiggins & Matthew L. Jones

Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in ...

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey ...

Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, From Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk

Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, ...

Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe

Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, ...

Edward Jay Epstein

Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of ...

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's ...

Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History From a Whitewashed American Myth

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History From ...

Jermaine Fowler

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, ...

Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture From Herodotus to the Digital Age

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture From ...

Bruce Holsinger

When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

Heather Hendershot

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's ...

Matthew Connelly

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future

Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation's Guide to ...

Walls and Welcome Mats: Immigration and the American Dream

Walls and Welcome Mats: Immigration and the American Dream

Lars Krogstad Ortiz

The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life From the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment

The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual ...

Charles Freeman

The Oxford History of World War II

The Oxford History of World War II

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become ...

Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance

Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of ...

The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow

The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow ...

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy

Foreign Policy and Security Strategy

From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media

From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media

Johan Jarlbrink & Patrik Lundell & Pelle Snickars

Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit ...

Azzan Yadin-Israel

Spare

Spare

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies ...

Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer