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History fans, buffs, students, scholars, and inquisitive people – uncover the remarkable stories of our past and explore the possibilities of the future with our history books. Whether you’re after academic pursuits or just beefing up your historical trivia, you’ll be sure to satisfy any and all inquiring minds at the official History Channel Store. With a vast selection of history books from riveting biographies, cookbooks full of personal anecdotes, to crime fiction, the History Store does it all covering American Presidents to UFOs; let curiosity be your guide.
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- Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New...
- Paying tribute to the best of classic and contemporary New Orleans cuisine, a collection of 250 delicious and authentic recipes, preserved by The Times-Picayune of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is accompanied by personal anecdotes about the recipes and those who created them.… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- Mankind : The Story of All of Us (Paperback)
- It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind. In conjunction with History Channel’s hit television… [ read more ]
- $30.00
- MANKIND: The Story Of All Of Us - Volume 1 (Paperback)
- Written By MARV WOLFMAN, NATHAN EDMONDSON, SHAWN BROCK, NEO EDMUND & JOE BRUSHA; Illustrations by TOM DERENICK, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, DENNIS CALERO, GIOVANNI TIMPANO, LARA BARON, JAVIER ARANDA, MATT TRIANO, MIKE DeCARLO & WES HUFFOR Inside all of us, there is a story to be discovered,… [ read more ]
- $14.99
- MANKIND: The Story Of All Of Us - Volume 2 (Paperback)
- Written By MARV WOLFMAN, NATHAN EDMONDSON, SHAWN BROCK, NEO EDMUND & JOE BRUSHA; Illustrations by TOM DERENICK, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, DENNIS CALERO, GIOVANNI TIMPANO, LARA BARON, JAVIER ARANDA, MATT TRIANO, MIKE DeCARLO & WES HUFFOR Inside all of us, there is a story to be discovered,… [ read more ]
- $14.99
- Portraits of Service : Looking into the Faces of Veterans (Hardcover)
- The purpose of Portraits of Service is to focus public attention on living veterans of all wars who have made personal sacrifices and, in many cases, undergone the horrors of combat. Upon returning home, many of these vets were met with indifference; worse, many did not receive support or… [ read more ]
- $39.95
- The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time...
- Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this captivating new book is a must-have for the Civil War aficionado. Organized into 52 chapters, each of which represents a significant week by theme. Further broken down by influential daily events, readers can become a seven-day… [ read more ]
- $24.99
- Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make a Roux?: A Cajun/Creole...
- A 160-page hardcover book containing more than 200 Cajun and Creole recipes, plus old photos and interesting stories about the author s growing up in the Cajun country of south Louisiana. Recipes include Pain Perdu, Couche Couche, Chicken Fricassee Stuffed Mirliton, Shrimp Stew, Grillades,… [ read more ]
- $22.95
- Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Paperback)
- The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement.… [ read more ]
- $15.95
- How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines...
- Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- Albert Einstein (Paperback)
- DK's acclaimed DK Biography series tackles two of history's most colorful figures in Harry Houdini and Albert Einstein. Perfect for book reports or summer reading, the DK Biography series brings a new clarity and narrative voice to history's most colorful figures. [ read more ]
- $4.99
- CSI Miami Cut & Run (Paperback) Book
- Horatio Caine and the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab become embroiled in a trio of baffling cases -- a hot-air balloon that lands in the Everglades with a corpse at the helm, the murder of a local journalist-turned novelist, and a bullet-ridden yacht that had been smuggling drugs. [ read more ]
- $7.99
- Dr. Marys Monkey (Paperback) Book
- The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this… [ read more ]
- $19.95
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off- Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope by Elizabeth Lightfoot (Paperback)
- There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of the most influential First Ladies in history. [ read more ]
$10.99- $7.69
- Roswell Legacy The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947...
- Enhanced with photos and illustrations, this account tells what intellegence officer Major Jesse Marcel witnessed at Roswell prior to and after the crash of the most controversial UFO in U.S. history, including the physical characteristics of the craft and the items found at the debris field. [ read more ]
- $14.99
- Sopranos Family Cookbook (Hardcover) Book
- Featuring fabulous Southern Italian recipes, photos, and lore from the hit show, this book will have millions of fans eating like their favourite family. Featuring mouthwatering recipes and family food stories straight from the kitchens of The Sopranos and their friends, The Sopranos… [ read more ]
- $19.95
- Tunnels (Hardcover) Book
- When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward ''Topsoilers'' like Will and his father. [ read more ]
- $17.99
- Thirteen Days (Paperback) Book
- The paperback Thirteen Days book takes a look at the pivotal crisis between the two nations as no other book on the subject can. Senator Robert F. Kennedy relays his experiences at the time as his brother, President Kennedy, grappled with a clear and present nuclear threat. A landmark Cuban… [ read more ]
- $13.95
- True Compass (Paperback) Book
- In the paperback True Compass book, Senator Edward Kennedy writes about his life as a legislator and member of the Kennedy dynasty. With both ease and candor, Kennedy tackles some of the most controversial episodes and emotionally challenging events in his life and career. The Edward Kennedy… [ read more ]
- $16.99
- Reading Jackie Her Autobiography in Books (Hardcover) Book
- Explore the hardcover Reading Jackie book and you'll come to understand a different side of the most famous woman of her time. As an editor for Doubleday and Viking, Jackie was a driven and hard-working professional, and not just the glamorous widow of a president, or ex-wife of a Greek… [ read more ]
- $27.95
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- In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. [ read more ]
$35.00- $26.25
- Exchange Artist A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and Americas First Banking...
- The riveting story of the country’s first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic. This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a… [ read more ]
- $17.00
- The Lost City of Z A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover) Book
- A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the… [ read more ]
- $27.50
- The Man Who Loved China (Paperback) Book
- In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman , brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held… [ read more ]
- $15.99
- The Protestant Reformation (Paperback) Book
- Newly revised, an overview of the Protestant Reformation includes a variety of source material that analyzes the origins of the Reformation, the teachings of the reformers, the movement's impact on the sixteenth century, and its influence on religious history. [ read more ]
- $15.99
- The Sopranos The Book
- By: HBO The Sopranos®: The Book is the behind-the-scenes story of the making of a revolutionary TV program. With unprecedented access to the set, this full-color volume offers the final word on how this original and deeply affecting world was brought to life, beginning with Chase's own… [ read more ]
- $21.95
- The Zookeepers Wife (Paperback) Book
- The New York Times bestseller : a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina… [ read more ]
- $14.95
- Youll Be Sor-ree! A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War (Hardcover)...
- As you'll discover when you read You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War (Hardcover), Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, Alabama, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942. A mortarman with H-Company, Sid was only 17… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback) Book
- In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine… [ read more ]
- $16.00
- A History of the Jews (Paperback) Book
- The author delivers a brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history. His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social and political notions interplay with world… [ read more ]
- $17.99
- A Terrible Glory Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the...
- In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called ‘’the Little Bighorn,’’ George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of… [ read more ]
- $16.99
- A Thousand Days John F. Kennedy in the White House (Paperback) Book
- The A Thousand Days John F. Kennedy in the White House book by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a tribute to the man who fascinated the world. In spite of his abbreviated term as president of the United States, JFK’s legacy continues to live on to this day. The John F. Kennedy book, available in… [ read more ]
- $18.95
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- An epic narrative of the First World War provides an incisive look at the brutal conflict that transformed the face of Europe, paved the way for the rise of the Soviet Union and Hitler, and left profound repercussions that even today affect the stability of the Middle East and the Balkans. [ read more ]
$21.00- $15.75
- Americas Hidden History (Paperback) Book
- America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History , presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each… [ read more ]
- $15.99
- American Eve Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the IT Girl, and the...
- The scandalous story of America's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbit, the temptress at the center of Stanford White's famous murder, whose iconic life story reflected all the paradoxes of America's Gilded Age. Known to millions before her sixteenth birthday… [ read more ]
- $17.00
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- The American Gospel–literally, the good news about America–is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a… [ read more ]
$15.95- $11.96
- American Heroes Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America...
- These revelatory stories of American heroes and their undaunted courage will forever alter our understanding of American history. From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes a remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. As Edmund S. Morgan, the… [ read more ]
- $27.95
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- Author: From the Editors of Life Magazine For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. The American… [ read more ]
$18.99- $13.29
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- Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of… [ read more ]
$30.00- $21.00
- American People in the Great Depression Freedom from Fear (Paperback) Book
- Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Using Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan held imperial ambitions of its own. The… [ read more ]
- $19.95
- An American Life The Autobiography (Hardcover) Book
- Ronald Reagan’s autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his life—public and private—told in a book both frank and compellingly readable. Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of… [ read more ]
- $32.00
- Anchored in Love An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash (Hardcover) Book
- Presents a life of the country music musician and songwriter, from her childhood performances as part of the Carter family singers to her relationship and marriage to Johnny Cash. [ read more ]
- $24.99
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- Before The Da Vinci Code there was Angels & Demons , the explosive thriller that introduced the mysterious world of Harvard symbologist Robesrt Langdon. Now Dan Brown's legions of fans can add a breathtaking new dimension to the Angels & Demons reading experience with this Special… [ read more ]
$35.00- $22.99
- Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (Hardcover) Book
- Here is the third installment in a series of reference books, all written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, a team of highly energized and deeply focused scientists with over sixty-seven combined years of experience at their command, including six months spent lifting awkwardly-sized… [ read more ]
- $18.00
- Armageddon in Stalingrad September-November 1942, the Stalingrad Trilogy,...
- The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: "Not a Step Back!" The Soviets' resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for which the Germans were totally unprepared,… [ read more ]
- $39.95
- Ascent of Money A Financial History of the World (Paperback) Book
- Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Whats more, Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all… [ read more ]
- $16.00
- Attila The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome (Paperback) Book
- Attila the Hun is a household name---a byword for mindless barbarism. But to most of us the man himself, his world, and his significance are all unknown. In this stunning historical narrative, John Man reveals the real Attila. [ read more ]
- $17.95
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- As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers,… [ read more ]
$17.00- $12.75
- Battle Cry of Freedom The Civil War Era (Paperback) Book
- Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military… [ read more ]
- $19.95
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off- Battle for Leyte Gulf The Incredible Story of World War IIs Largest Naval...
- Woodward, who served on the staff of historians of the US Navy during World War II, drafted this as a part of the Navy's secret history of the battle and had access to records denied to others. Here he pursues the battle geographically as well as chronologically, making sense of the largest… [ read more ]
$12.95- $9.71
- Beautiful Boy A Fathers Journey Through His Sons Addiction (Paperback) Book
- What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he… [ read more ]
- $14.95
- Beauty Queen (Hardcover) Book
- A brave look at drug use draws readers in, exposes them to the horrifying reality of heroin, a killer drug, and allows them to escape, unlike the scores of teen addicts, in a chilling account of one teenager's heroin addiction. [ read more ]
- $16.99
- Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine (Hardcover) Book
- Author: Michael Lewis A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible— [ read more ]
- $27.95
- Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (Paperback) Book
- ''We knew from the beginning how critical it was to have our own publication, to set forth our agenda for freedom...to urge change, to use the pen alongside the sword,'' writes David Hilliard in the preface to this stunning collection of pages from the original groundbreaking editions of… [ read more ]
- $25.00
- Blackwater The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Paperback) Book
- On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private… [ read more ]
- $16.95
- Blood and Thunder An Epic of the American West (Paperback) Book
- In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the… [ read more ]
- $15.95
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- Author: Leroi Jones "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents,… [ read more ]
$13.99- $10.99
- Bobby and Jackie A Love Story (Paperback) Book
- The Bobby and Jackie A Love Story book (paperback) offers an in-depth look at the much talked-about"but never fully revealed"relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Rumors about the love affair have long fascinated Americans. Now, it is brought to light by an expert on the… [ read more ]
- $15.00
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- The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround… [ read more ]
$18.95- $14.21
- Brace for Impact Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near...
- The paperback Brace for Impact book Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for a New Life offers a rare glimpse into the minds of survivors of the US Airways Flight 1549 that made an emergency landing New York’s Hudson River. Read how that experience in… [ read more ]
- $14.95
- Buzzed The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol...
- A new edition of a best-selling reference incorporates the latest findings on such topics as energy drinks, prescription medications, and the date-rape drug GHB, in an accessible volume that features quick-reference summaries, reports on how drugs enter the body and manipulate the brain, and… [ read more ]
- $18.95
- Cavalryman of the Lost Cause A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart (Hardcover) Book
- Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War… [ read more ]
- $32.00
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off- Change We Can Believe in Barack Obamas Plan to Renew Americas Promise...
- Go deep into a pivotal point in American history in Change We Can Believe in: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (Paperback). Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader -- one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation… [ read more ]
$13.95- $9.77
- Chasing the White Dog An Amateur Outlaws Adventures in Moonshine (Paperback)...
- In the summer of 1794, drunk and armed outlaws gathered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, intent on preventing the collection of the Whiskey Tax. George Washington mustered 13,000 troops to quell the rebellion, but by the time they arrived, the rebels had vanished; America’s first moonshiners… [ read more ]
- $15.00
- Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of...
- Spanning over 2,000 years, from the great 'First Emperor', buried with his terracotta army in the 3rd century BC, to the last emperor, enthroned in the Forbidden City in 1911, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors details the fascinating lives and personalities of all 157 Chinese emperors. In… [ read more ]
- $26.95
SALE- Citizen Soldiers The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the...
- In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to… [ read more ]
$18.00- $17.77
- Coast to Coast Ghosts True Stories of Hauntings Across America (Paperback) Book
- An employee of the St. James Hotel in New Mexico watches in shock as a fair-haired toddler with a terribly disfigured face disappears into the floor. This is just one of the paranormal mysteries Leslie Rule shares with us-a result of extensive interviews and research uncovering the reasons… [ read more ]
- $14.99
- Coco Chanel A Life (Hardcover) Book
- A full-scale biography with 60 color illustrations peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion, in a book drawn from research in the Chanel archives and an exclusive interview with Chanel's successor, Karl Lagerfield. [ read more ]
- $40.00
- Come Back A Mother and Daughters Journey Through Hell and Back (Paperback) Book
- Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a compelling memoir describes the life of a teenage runaway; her mother's journey into the dark and sinister underbelly of drugs, pimps, and violence to find and rescue her daughter; and the daughter's struggle back to life in a… [ read more ]
- $15.95
- Common Sense, the Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings (Paperback) Book
- A trio of important works from the "English Voltaire" and advocate of democracy includes Common Sense, in which he declared independence from Britain, and The Crisis, in which he experienced first hand the horrors of war as a Continental Army solider [ read more ]
- $6.95
- Condoleezza Rice An American Life A Biography (Paperback) Book
- A Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of The Secrets of Mariko provides a close-up portrait of America's controversial Secretary of State, offering an intimate account of Rice's life and political career, her role as a powerful African-American woman in politics,… [ read more ]
- $17.00
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- A fully updated follow-up to Peter Schiff's bestselling financial survival guide-Crash Proof, which described the U.S. economy as a house of cards on the verge of collapse. The economic and monetary disaster which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff predicted is no longer… [ read more ]
$27.95- $22.99
- D-Day June 6, 1944 The Climactic Battle of World War II (Paperback) Book
- The author of Eisenhower chronicles the events, politics, and personalities of this pivotal day in World War II, shedding light on the strategies of commanders on both sides and the ramifications of the battle. [ read more ]
- $18.00
- Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on...
- A provocative study of how the U.S. made disastrous, self-destructive decisions in pursuit of terrorism around the globe in the wake of 9/11 reveals how these actions not only violated the Constitution and American values, but also hampered efforts to bring down Al Qaeda, seriously damaging… [ read more ]
- $15.95
- Day Freedom Died The Colfax Massacre, The Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of...
- Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans… [ read more ]
- $16.00
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- This carefully selected collection of letters, spanning from the earliest days of the Republic to the present, were pulled from the extensive holdings of the National Archives. Archivists searched through hundreds of letters held throughout their network, which includes all of the… [ read more ]
$20.00- $14.00
- Death by Black Hole And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback) Book
- Loyal readers of the monthly “Universe” essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and childlike enthusiasm. Here Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic… [ read more ]
- $15.95
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off- Different Mirror A History of Multicultural America (Paperback) Book
- Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United… [ read more ]
$17.99- $13.99
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- Years before becoming the 44th President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama published Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, a lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. It tells… [ read more ]
$10.99- $7.69
- The Drillmaster of Valley Forge The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the...
- The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure. In the first book on Steuben since 1937, Paul… [ read more ]
- $15.99
- Drinking A Love Story (Paperback) Book
- A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape the realities of life and personal relationships, until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. [ read more ]
- $16.00
- Eiffels Tower The Thrilling Story Behind Pariss Beloved Monument and the...
- Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been an iconic image of modern times-as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture. But as engineer Gustave Eiffel built the now-famous landmark to be the spectacular centerpiece of the 1889… [ read more ]
- $16.00
- Einstein His Life and Universe (Paperback) Book
- A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his… [ read more ]
- $17.95
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off- Ella Fitzgerald A Twentieth-Century Life (Hardcover) Book
- As a young runaway who had to live on the streets, Ella Fitzgerald overcame her financial and personal hardships in her adult years; shining on stage as a world-revered jazz singer who won thirteen Grammys, toured for more than 50 years, and became known as the First Lady of Song. [ read more ]
$16.99- $12.99
- Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover) Book
- The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's… [ read more ]
- $35.00
- End of Empire Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome (Hardcover) Book
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