History
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Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus)
$18.99 Read moreCritically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which significantly shaped the United States and effectively e… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1338592831
- Language: English
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Maine Community Cookbook Volume 2: 200 More Recipes Celebrating Home Cooking in the Pine Tree State
$29.95 Read moreBuilding on the success of the award-winning Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook, this second volume is a brand new collection of more than 200 family recipes, stories, and photos. The Maine Communi… [more below]
- Author: Hathaway, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143608
- Language: English
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A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark
$8.99 Add to cartAn introduction to the lives of Lewis and Clark and to the exploratory expedition they led from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the early nineteenth century.
- Series: Picture Book Biography
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0823417956
- Language: English
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
$12.95 Add to cartCrossley-Holland–the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts–introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538719
- Language: English
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
$24.99 Add to cartThe Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emp… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Ralph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0465003044
- Language: English
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Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s
$24.95 Read moreCaught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change, both physical and social. As the urban renewal program and the openi… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Emily Stoddard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143675
- Language: English
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National Geographic Readers: Vikings (L2)
$4.99 Add to cartMeet the seafaring adventurers, storytellers, and famous figures of Norse history in this new Leveled Reader, perfect for independent readers and kids who love learning about ancient cultures.
Learn h- Series: Readers
- Author: Romero, Libby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1426332181
- Language: English
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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun
$19.00 Add to cartThe Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
- Author: Barrett, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307719952
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Add to cartThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartIn The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture.
Scandinavian- Author: Ringen, Stein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1474625193
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Photography: The Whole Story
$34.95 Add to cartUnlike many other artistic media, photography’s origins are well documented, as are its ever-changing technologies and applications. Written by an international team of experts, this definitive histor… [more below]
- Author: Hacking, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 20 2012
- ISBN10: 3791347349
- Language: English
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
$19.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp obser… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 1989
- ISBN10: 039552105X
- Language: English
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The World and the Person: And Other Writings
$24.99 Add to cartNo Catholic library is complete without these five landmark works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century.
This treasury brings back into print Regnery’s cla- Author: Guardini, Romano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514495
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
$18.00 Read more“‘The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ‘ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”–Wall Street Journal
A master- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130064
- Language: English
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Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey Through Art, Design, and Life
$35.00 Add to cartFormed by a convergence of the Buddha’s teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptine… [more below]
- Author: Blair, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0789213451
- Language: English
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Thunderstruck
$33.00 Add to cartA true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men–Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Mar- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 1400080665
- Language: English
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The Art of Protest: Political Art and Activism
$60.00 Add to cartThanks to art’s ability to communicate and influence, it has always had a charged relationship with activism and politics. And, given the tumultuous times in which we live, with traditional democracie… [more below]
- Author: Gestalten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 3967040119
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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New York Times Book of Sports Legends
$25.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The New York Times Book of Sports Legends profiles 50 of America’s greatest sports figures, vividly captured in incisive biographical essays, on-the-scene coverage of their triu… [more below]
- Author: Vecchione, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0671760394
- Language: English
