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James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest

James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest

Michael P. Malone

The Oklahoma Western Biographies (4)

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

World History 101: From Ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking Conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an Essential Primer on World History

World History 101: From Ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking Conquests ...

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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Madeleine Albright

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 ...

The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power

The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

Vaclav Smil & Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped ...

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War to Cold War

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War ...

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

Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way

Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way

The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century

The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century

Jonathan E. Hillman

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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

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

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of ...

Jose Maria Perez Fernandez & Edward Wilson-Lee

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

Robert Zaretsky

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Mark Lawrence Schrad

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat ...

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, ...

A History of the American People

A History of the American People

James Truslow Adams

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fernando Cervantes

Shakespeare and Terrorism

Shakespeare and Terrorism

Water for Gotham: A History

Water for Gotham: A History

Gerard T. Koeppel

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations ...

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern ...

Nicholas Mulder

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist ...

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World ...

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth ...

J. Bradford DeLong

The Oxford History of World War II

The Oxford History of World War II

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 ...

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

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

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep ...

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

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

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

The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half ...

Jonathan Sperber

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic ...

Nicholas Radburn

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power ...

Wolfram Eilenberger

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential ...

Luke A. Nichter

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, ...

Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice

Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators ...

Jon Silverman & Robert Sherwood

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the ...

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War During the Second World War

Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners ...

Yorai Linenberg

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

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

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry ...

A History of Fake Things on the Internet

A History of Fake Things on the Internet

Walter Scheirer

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning