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Walk Near Rome 300 A.D. [Part 1 of 2] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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Be a tourist in ancient Rome during the time of Diocletian. Savor the smells, the sights, the thrills of the ancient world capital as no standard history text can offer. First of two unforgettable parts crammed with detailed info and interesting explanations. Part 1 brings you from a rural villa to the outskirts of Rome. Part 2 (coming soon) walks you through the city itself. Infonana offers entertaining and informative nonfiction for digital readers on the go. (Published: 2002)
Words: 6400 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Walk In Rome 300 A.D. [Part 2 of 2] [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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Enjoy a walk through living, breathing ancient Rome during the rule of Diocletian. The smells, the sights, the sounds, all come to life in this final part of a two-part series filled with delightful detail and startling observation. (Published: 2002)
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Holocene: The Missing 6,000 Years [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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What really happened during that early twilight zone of human existence after the last Ice Age? We live in the period called the Holocene, which began 11,000 years ago, and of which we know relatively little except for the past 5,000 years since writing was invented. But there are mysterious megaliths around the world, and other evidence that all is not what we may think. Will we ever find out the whole story? (Published: 2003)
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Don't Know Much About History [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Kenneth C. Davis
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 A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About series. When Don't Know Much About History first appeared thirteen years ago, it created a sensation. With humor, wit, great stories, and a trademark conversational style, the book brought Americans a fresh new take on history. Shattering myths and vividly bringing the past to life, it spent thirty-five consecutive weeks on the New York Times bes... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Deadly Transit [MultiFormat]
by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
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 The true story of Mason & Dixon's voyage to Indonesia in 1761 to observe a rare transit of the planet Venus ... and what happened when a naval battle interrupted the voyage. (Published: 2001)
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Jennet Conant
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 When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. A patriot eager to do his part to save his country from a Nazi invasion, he invaded the upper reaches of the U.S. government and Georgetown society, winning over First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin; befriending wartime leade... more info>>
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1776 [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David McCullough
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In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence--when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another land... more info>>
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Truman [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by David McCullough
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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson--and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man--a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined--but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The l... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Amity Shlaes
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. R... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Forever War [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Dexter Filkins
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 From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of am... more info>>
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Who Stole Hitler's A-Bombs? [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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On April 15, 1945--two weeks before Hitler's suicide in Berlin--the dying Nazi spider was still spinning webs and sending out poisonous stings against its enemies. Though amputated of most of its tentacles, Hitler's empire lay narcotized amid its dreams of phantom armies and Wagnerian hordes. Not all of its weapons were phantoms, however. Many of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) of those final days anticipated the fantastic gadgetry of the Cold War to come. Among the Nazi empire's deadly stinge... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Armageddon : The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Max Hastings
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 Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings--one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy "to stand with that of the best journalists and writers" (New York Times Book Review). In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American se... more info>>
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The Second World War: Volume 1: The Gathering Storm [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918 [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by G.J. Meyer
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The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles W. Henderson
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Marine Sniper is not only one of the most astonishing true stories to emerge from the Vietnam War, it has become a classic of military nonfiction, inspiring a sequel, Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues. There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. A legend in the Marine ranks, Hathcock stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines--on their own ground. And each time he emerged from the jungle having done hi... more info>>
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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, its second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, determined to move the faithful out of the Midwest, where they had been constantly persecuted by their neighbors, to found a new Zion in the wilderness. In 1846-47, the Mormons made their way west, generally followin... more info>>
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Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Robert Gandt
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The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York City.... The USS Intrepid is a warship unlike any other. Since her launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, Essex-class aircraft carrier has sailed into harm's way around the globe. During World War II, she fought her way across the Pacific--Kwajalein, Truk, Peleliu, Formosa, the Philippines, Okinawa--surviving kamikaze and torpedo atta... more info>>
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Glenn Beck
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FUNNY.OUTRAGEOUS.TRUE. Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty, never seem to get fixed? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't very convenient. Fortunately, radio and television host Glenn Beck doesn't care much about convenience; he cares about common sense. Take the issue of poverty, for example. Over the last forty years, America's ten poorest cities all had one simple thing in common, but self-serving po... more info>>
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Pauline Maier
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The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration set forth the terms of a new form of government with the following words: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, ... more info>>
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A History of Western Philosophy [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Bertrand Russell
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Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject--unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the A... more info>>
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Byzantium: Capital of an Ancient Empire [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Giles Morgan
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The Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years, created remarkable art and architecture and a lasting cultural and religious legacy that still has significance today. Now recognized as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a significant impact in the shaping modern Europe, modern historians are also increasingly acknowledging the role of the Byzantine Empire in the development of both Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between the two.
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From Beirut to Jerusalem [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Thomas L. Friedman
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Winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times, drew on his extensive experience in the region to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guideBook ... an engrossing journey not to be missed." As the conflict in the Middle East... more info>>
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The Second World War: Volume 4: The Hinge of Fate [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Second World War: Volume 5: Closing the Ring [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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