Category - History
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A Reverence for Wood
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Refreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable c...
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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today. "[Sante] is an endlessly curious...
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America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Known as the "American Gibraltar," Fort Jefferson, located in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, was the most heavily armed coastal defense fort in United ...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-...
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The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusin...
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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his ...
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At the Base of the Giant's Throat: The Past and Future of America's Great Dams
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as "major." Nearly all of this infrastructure was...
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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage problem," renowned geographer Richard Campanella rec...
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Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after over ninety years. He foresaw the ...
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERForeword by Anne MurrayThe riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who surv...
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, d...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Unexpected Life, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In ...
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The Right Stuff
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name ...
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals f...
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T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2020 Foreword Indie Award Honorable Mention in the "Science & Technology" Category Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation ab...
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North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Maps for Curious Minds series is back--with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonde...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...
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The Art of War
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." The Art of War, by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu...
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern math...
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A singular atlas of 100 infographic maps from thought-provoking to flat-out fun. And don't miss the next book in the series, North American Maps fo...
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Bipolar General: My Forever War with Mental Illness
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engi...
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The Book of Five Rings
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, ...
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Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possib...
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Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960's US-...
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