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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
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The Alice Behind Wonderland
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The Alice Behind Wonderland
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
HardcoverOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Now a major motion picture Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780060175962 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: 08-2...
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
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