William H. Mcneill

Stephen E. Ambrose

Caleb Carr

David McCullough

John Lukas

John Keegan

James Bradley

Cecelia Holland

Alistair Horne

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Maryland

Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history--the events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time as the question "What if ... ": Pontius Pilate hadn't ordered Jesus Christ's crucifixion? Abraham Lincoln hadn't abolished slavery? A Confederate aide hadn't accidentally lost General Robert E. Lee's plans for invading the North? The Allied invasion of D Day had failed? Pope Pius XII had spoken out against the Holocaust? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe? --From publisher's description.

The Collected What If?

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Some folds to dust jacket. Book is in  good condition with spine separation at back of book. See photos. 

An Encyclopedia of Classic Warfare from Megiddo to Waterloo

The Greatest Battles in History

Gordon A. Craig

Sone danage to dust jacket. See photos. Book is in very god condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870. Suitable for A Level and upwards. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE series.

Germany, 1866-1945

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Eric Jay Dolin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, from the nameless storms that threatened the New World voyages to our own era of global warming and megastorms. Along the way, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, and forces us to reckon with the reality that future storms will likely be worse, unless we reimagine our relationship with the planet.

A Furious Sky

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Harlan Lebo

How Four Events in 1969 Shaped America

In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first Moon landing, Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.

100 Days

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Walter R. Borneman

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet. In THE ADMIRALS, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men-who were both friends and rivals-worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II.

The Admirals

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Karen Armstrong

A Biography

As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last two hundred years. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects.

In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history’s most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity’s sacred text, and how its interpretation changed over time. Armstrong’s history of the Bible is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.

The Bible

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Sally Roth

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

536 Ways to Turn Your Yard and Garden into a Haven for Your Favorite Birds

Enjoy your home and garden as never before when you have a yard that's filled with colorful birds and bird songs as well as flowers. This A-to-Z guide includes:

Terrific tips and plans for building bird feeders, birdbaths, and birdhouses.

Recipes for making bird food that is sure to be a hit with your feathered friends--including Chickadee Doughnut Delights and Easy Bird Treat Mini-Muffins.

The 25 best plants to grow to attract birds to your yard--including columbine and honeysuckle, hummingbird favorites.

How to identify and attract goldfinches, chickadees, cardinals, and more than 50 other favorite birds to your yard. Plus, you'll learn what their songs and antics really mean.

With Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, you are on your way to creating your own backyard bird sancturay today!

Attracting Birds to Your Backyard

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Andy Mangels

George Lucas

The Essential Guide to Characters

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE EMPIRE! RESEARCH THE REBELS! *Features detailed profiles of all the most important characters in the Star Wars universe *Covers the movies, the books--classic and new--the comics, the TV specials, the games, and the rest of the expanding universe of Star Wars *Describes the history and personality of each character, with vital statistics, weapons of choice, and vehicles used *Includes photographs and original line drawings--with multiple illustrations of most characters for better visual reference *Brings you up-to-date on recent characters and events if you've been away from the Star Wars universe for a while. THE UNIVERSE OF STAR WARS IS EXPANDING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE... WITH THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS IN HAND, YOU'LL NEVER LOSE YOUR WAY.

Star Wars

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H. G. Wells

The Time Machine; The Island of Dr. Moreau; The Invisible Man; The First Men in the Moon/ The Food of the Gods; The War of the Worlds

The Works of H. G. Wells

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Cody Cassidy

Paul Doherty

What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara

A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China? Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco’s famed Exploratorium Museum, and writer Cody Cassidy explore the real science behind these and other fantastical scenarios, offering insights into physics, astronomy, anatomy, and more along the way. Is slipping on a banana peel as hazardous to your health as the cartoons imply? Answer: Yes. Banana peels ooze a gel that turns out to be extremely slippery. Your foot and body weight provide the pressure. The gel provides the humor (and resulting head trauma). Can you die by shaking someone’s hand? Answer: Yes. That’s because, due to atomic repulsion, you’ve never actually touched another person’s hand. If you could, the results would be as disastrous as a medium-sized hydrogen bomb. If you were Cookie Monster, just how many cookies could you actually eat in one sitting? Answer: Most stomachs can hold up to sixty cookies, or around four liters. If you eat or drink more than that, you’re approaching the point at which the cookies would break through the lesser curvature of your stomach, and then you’d better call an ambulance to Sesame Street.

And Then You're Dead

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Richard H. Brown

Paul E. Cohen

Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783

The spectacular legacy and importance of early American cartographers. Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage. The high skills of the surveyors, artists, and engravers who delineated the topography and fields of battle allow us to observe the unfolding of events that ultimately defined the United States. When warfare erupted between Britain and her colonists in 1775, maps provided graphic news about military matters. A number of the best examples are reproduced here, including some from the personal collections of King George III, the Duke of Northumberland, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Other maps from institutional and private collections are being published for the first time. In all, sixty significant and beautiful cartographic works from 1755 to 1783 illustrate this intriguing era. Most books about the Revolution begin with Lexington and Concord and progress to the British surrender at Yorktown, but in this rich collection the authors lay the groundwork for the war by also taking into account key events of the antecedent conflict. The seeds of revolution were planted during the French and Indian War (1755–1763), and it was then that a good number of the participants, both British and rebel, cut their teeth. George Washington took his first command during this war, alongside the future British commanding General Thomas Gage. At the Treaty of Paris, the French and Indian War ended, and King George III gained clear title to more territory than had ever been exchanged in any other war before or since. The British military employed its best-trained artists and engineers to map the richest prize in its Empire. They would need those maps for the fratricidal war that would begin twelve years later. Their maps and many others make up the contents of this fascinating and beautiful book.

Revolution

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Martin Vargic

Mapping the Modern World

A remarkable, fascinating and beautiful visual guide to the world as you have never seen it. Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps is a wonderfully weird collection of meticulous and striking cartographic creations, such as the infamous Map of Stereotypes. Based on a Westerner’s stereotypical view of the world, Slovakian artist and cartophile Martin Vargic assigns more than two thousand labels and prejudices to cities, states, countries, continents, oceans and seas on a large-scale, visually stunning world map, which alone took more than four months to create. The conceptual Map of the Internet and the Map of Sports are exquisite and surprising, and infographic maps showing the number of heavy-metal bands per capita, the probability of getting struck by lightning, average penis length, and the number of tractors per 1,000 inhabitants make it hard not to share with the person next to you. Including more than 70 maps, four foldout maps and two oversized removable posters, this book is a treasure trove of unexpected facts of our quirky, glorious and diverse big beautiful world.

Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps

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George R. R. Martin

Maps from King's Landing to Across the Narrow Sea

Perfect for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, these twelve stunning full-color maps--packaged together in a hardcover case that fits neatly on your bookshelf--are ideal for framing.

George R. R. Martin's beloved series is bursting with a variety and richness of landscapes--from bitter tundra to arid wasteland and everything in between--that provide a sense of scale unrivaled in contemporary fantasy. Now this dazzling set of twelve foldable maps, featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, transforms Martin's epic saga into a world as fully realized as the one around us.

The centerpiece of this gorgeous collection is guaranteed to be a must-have for any fan: the complete map of the known world, joining the lands of the Seven Kingdoms and the lands across the Narrow Sea for the first time in series history. But this is just one of many unique maps that aren't available anywhere else. There is an alternate version that tracks the movements of the series' protagonists through A Dance with Dragons, along with more detailed versions of the western, middle, and eastern thirds of the world; a full map of Westeros, combining North and South; one of the Dothraki Sea and the Red Wastes; and the Braavos city map. And here, too, are fan favorites detailing everything from urban sprawl to untamed wilds: maps of King's Landing; The Wall and Beyond the Wall; the Free Cities; and Slaver's Bay, Valyria, and Sothyros.

Never before has the entire scope of Martin's universe been so exhaustively and fascinatingly depicted. The maps in this beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection will enrich your reading or viewing experience, provide another view of your favorite characters' epic journeys, and open up captivating new worlds--plus, they'll look great on any castle wall.

The Lands of Ice and Fire (a Game of Thrones)

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Glenn Povey

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The Ultimate Reference

"Illustrated with rare photographs and magnificent items of memorabilia, The complete Pink Floyd contains biographical accounts of the bandmembers' collective and individual careers, as well as previously unpublished insights into the band's recordings at the famous Abbey Road Studios"--Back cover.

Complete Pink Floyd

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James Patterson

Jill Dembowski

A final entry in the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award-nominated series finds Wisty preparing for an ultimate confrontation with the leader of a totalitarian regime that has banned everything cherished by the resistance. By the author of the Daniel X series.

The Fire

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Ned Rust

The Gift

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"For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"--

The Kiss

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Nicole Snow

An Enemies to Lovers Romance

Pretend engaged. Total opposites. So wrong it hurts.Now let's pretend he isn't driving me insane...I'm on my last nerve.And I'm supposed to marry him to save my skin.Riker Woods might be God's hottest contradiction.Perfectly damaged. Stubborn soul. Moth to flame gaze.Single dad. Fierce protector. Kind...when he thinks no one's looking.Then along came little old me.The pesky fianc

Still Not Yours

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Gabrielle Charbonnet

YOUR BOOKS, MUSIC, AND ART--BANNED BY THE NEW ORDER! Everything is about to change. The government has seized control of every aspect of society, and this is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night, slammed into prison, and accused of being a witch and a wizard. Thousands of young people have been kidnapped; some have been accused; many others remain missing. Their fate is unknown, and the worst is feared--for the ruling regime will stop at nothing to suppress life and liberty, music and books, art and magic . . . and the pursuit of being a normal teenager.

Witch and Wizard

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Slander

Richard Miniter

The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror

Miniter taps his exclusive sources and on-thespot global reporting to reveal America's unheralded successes in the War on Terror. Accounts ranging from failed assassination plots to the successful capture of al Qaeda officers make Shadow War a riveting and enlightening read about how America is beating radical Islamic terrorism.

Shadow War

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Ken Warren

Book is complete, but binding is damaged. 

Written for beginning and intermediate players, Warren's book shows how to play and win Hold 'em, the most popular of the poker variations and the rage in card rooms and private games across the country. Numerous charts, tables, and examples help with explanations and analyses. 35 charts, 10 line drawings.

Winner's Guide to Texas Hold 'em Poker

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David Morrell

In order to save himself and woman he loves, Frank Balenger becomes trapped in a nightmarish web of terror, violence, and death as he takes part in a high-tech scavenger hunt to find a one-hundred-year-old time capsule.

Scavenger

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S Paschal Books

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