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Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
Jumping into Jacksonian Democracy: If you have never heard of Sam Patch, it is because you are not living in the nineteenth century. Sam Patch was America's first celebrity daredevil, someone who made his fortune and his fame by spectacularly endangering [... more]
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Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America
excellent and very readable description of America's economic dependence on other nations: I'm very surprised to find that this excellent book hasn't yet been reviewed. Rauchway writes in a very direct and readable style, presenting a wide array of data [... more]
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
Mexico's War With The United States: Timothy Henderson's new book A GLORIOUS DEFEAT: MEXICO AND ITS WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES provides a brief but useful overview of the causes and consequences of our war with Mexico almost entirely from the Mexican [... more]
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Dawn
In just one word? Terrorism: A survivor of this becomes a proponent for that. . .by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Ellie Wiesel's fictional "Dawn" is all too true; all too often repeated. Terrorized as a Jew by Nazis in World War II, [... more]
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Jean Anouilh: Seven Plays (Jean Anouilh)
a fine collection!: this 1967 pocket-sized paperback from Hill & Wang is a relic of the time, now long past, when commercial publishers found it profitable and worthwhile to print affordable editions of works by great novelists, playwrights, poets [... more]
$4.25
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World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
fascinating insight into American intellectual/psychological history: Although I have no exerptise in the history of "human engineering" or the evolution of American psychological thought, I was intrigued by the cover (I admit it!) and the [... more]
$16.00
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
Book Description: Our leaders swear to uphold it, our military to defend it. It is the blueprint for the shape and function of government itself and what defines Americans as Americans. But how many of us truly know our Constitution? The United States [... more]
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The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
The Confederacy's Doomed Submarine: The past few decades have seen an unprecedented flourishing of exploration and retrieval of sunken vessels and their cargo. There are richer wrecks than that of the _H. L. Hunley_, but few of such technological and [... more]
$26.00
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World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
fascinating insight into American intellectual/psychological history: Although I have no exerptise in the history of "human engineering" or the evolution of American psychological thought, I was intrigued by the cover (I admit it!) and the [... more]
$14.95
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A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage
A Unique View of the Pilgrimage: In 1853, Sir Richard Francis Burton went on the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca, and his wonderful account of his successful impersonation as a Muslim pilgrim is still an exciting book. There have been other non-Muslims and [... more]
$26.00
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Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America
The Secret History of Sex and Birth Control: When I reviewed this extraordinary book for THE NATION Magazine (issue of June 11, 2001) my piece was entitled "The Secret History of Sex." It's fun to scoop the N.Y. TIMES.! The lead review in the [... more]
$30.00
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World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
fascinating insight into American intellectual/psychological history: Although I have no exerptise in the history of "human engineering" or the evolution of American psychological thought, I was intrigued by the cover (I admit it!) and the [... more]
$30.00
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