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Myths and Legends of Japan [MultiFormat]
by F. Hadland Davis
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 The broad scope and exquisite details of Japanese storytelling. The stories, beliefs, and poetry of Japan are presented in a higly-organized format. Dozens of legends grouped by type (Animals, Trees, Insects, etc.)--including a number of categories unique to Japanese lore, such as Bells, Mount Fuji, and Fox Legends. Creation myths, hero tales, festivals, gods and goddesses, ghosts and superstitions, and lots more. (Published: 1917)
Words: 111000 - Reading Time: 317-444 min.
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Max Hastings
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 On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, he explores the Allies' push inward, with many British and American infantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during the course of ... more info>>
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Wallace
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Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, potions, and powders against the adversary, the CIA hired America's most famous magician, John Mulholland, to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication techniques. In 1973, virtually all documents rel... more info>>
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The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England from 1485-1649 [MultiFormat]
by Kathy Lynn Emerson
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For the writer and anyone else interested in Renaissance England (1485-1649), this remarkable resource covers the day-to-day details: fashions, food, customs, family life, the Royal Court, law and punishment, holidays, city and rural living, seafaring and land occupations, alehouses, marriage, birth and death rituals--and a great deal more, written with authority in a wonderfully readable style. Included are bibliographies and internet addresses for further research. Written by Kathy Lynn Emerso... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 85700 - Reading Time: 244-342 min.
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Travels with Herodotus [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad ï¿1/2 perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India ï¿1/2 the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia... more info>>
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James A. Mcpherson
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 James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with--and often against--his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it. Though Abraham Lincoln arrived at the White House with no previous military experience (apart from a couple of months spent soldiering in 1832), he quickly established himself as the greatest commander in chief in American history. James McPherson illuminates this often misunders... more info>>
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Virginal Huntress/Warrior: Her Undying Ice Age Cult [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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Fierce and beautiful, she still today brings with her a breath of Ice Age mystery. With minor variations, she is Athena, Joan of Arc, Marianne of the Barricades, and Rosie the Riveter. The Ionians worshipped her since at least Neolithic times. When the Greeks founded the chief city of Attica during the Iron Age, they named their city after her: Athens. Atop the city's high hill, they created a sanctuary dedicated to her, and named its chief temple the Parthenon, which means Temple of the Virgin.... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 21215 - Reading Time: 60-84 min.
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33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Guess what? The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states' rights--an idea reviled today--were even more important than the Constitution's checks and balances. The "Wild" West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn't involve an intern in a blue dress. Surprised? Don't be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and fl... more info>>
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Ronald Takaki
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A dramatic new retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a different mirror"--from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves. Beginning with the colonization of the "New World" and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Ameri... more info>>
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A Short History of World War II [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James L. Stokesbury
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Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War. A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written an... more info>>
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance--Portrait of an Age [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by William Manchester
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William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked. [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James Burke
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Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood people: Some were shady financial manipulators, most were masterful political operators, a few were go... more info>>
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Walter Isaacson
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What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intellig... more info>>
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Tom Brokaw
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In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through ... more info>>
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James Webb
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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as front... more info>>
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From Beirut to Jerusalem [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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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It Seemed Like a Good Idea: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by William R. Forstchen, Bill Fawcett
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Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions--and sometimes the worst--have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-filled chronicle, William Forstchen and Bill Fawcett explore the watersheds of history that began as the best of ideas and ended as the worst of fiascoes. A Holy War--The Medieval Crusades for religious liberation become centuries of slaughter and destruction. Sibling Rivalry--Leif Erikson spares his sis... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Richard Slotkin
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In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War's most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union's plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow a hole in the enemy lines. Then a specially trained division of African American infantry would spearhead a powerful assault to exploit the breach cr... more info>>
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Pathfinder: First In, Last Out [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Richard R. Burns
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December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it.... In Vietnam, Richard Burns operated in live-or-die situations, risking his life so that other men could keep theirs. As a Pathfinder--all too often alone in the middle of a hot LZ--he guided in helicopters disembarking troop... more info>>
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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Terry Brighton
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In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief commanders—three men who also happened to be the most compelling dramatis personae of World War II. Beyond spellbinding depictions of pivotal confrontations at El Alamein, Monte Cassino, and the Ardennes forest, author-scholar Terry Brighton illuminates the personal motivations and historical e... more info>>
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Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Nov 29, 2009] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Michael Graham
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 A wicked concoction of down-home hilarity and scathing political satire is served up in this provocative and entertaining look at the South's pervasive influence on America from one of the nation's funniest political observers.
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by David Halberstam
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Around Thanksgiving, 1950, while the rest of the country paid as little attention as possible, units of the Second Infantry Division were virtually annihilated by forces of the People's Republic Army. It was a defeat which shocked an otherwise disinterested and distant nation. In The Coldest Winter, award-winning reporter and historian David Halberstam explodes this moment in time, using it as a jumping off point to delve into the Korean War's particular horrors and triumphs. Using first-person ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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 Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by James Bradley
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In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, the communist revolution... more info>>
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$11.47 |
| Cost After Rebate: |
$16.49 |
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$14.02 |
| You Save: |
45.02% |
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53.25% |
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