Category - History
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals...
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Creative Daoism
PaperbackOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Just as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of th...
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Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales--boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ra...
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Pittsburgh Drinks: A History of Cocktails, Nightlife & Bartending Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a cente...
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swif...
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen. In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes l...
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The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Ancient monuments, legends and folklore interpreted to illuminate the realities of prehistoric Irish belief.The myths and legends of prehistoric ...
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the ...
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Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana's Early County Extension Agents
HardcoverOriginal price $35.95Original price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good o...
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Pennsylvania Scrapple: A Delectable History
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Join author Amy Strauss as she traces the sizzling history and culture of a beloved and sustaining Pennsylvania Dutch iconic dish, scrapple. The ...
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Richmond's Culinary History: Seeds of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Richmond's culinary history spans more than four hundred years and includes forgotten cooks and makers who paved the way for Richmond's vibrant m...
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” Willi...
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Chicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city's celebrated lost restaurants. Many of Chicago's greatest or most unusual restaurants are "no longer...
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldse...
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Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This is a book about TRUTH—and all the ways we try to avoid it—from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up....
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A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Iowa's delectable cuisine is quintessentially midwestern, grounded in its rich farming heritage and spiced with diverse ethnic influences. Classi...
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GI Ingenuity: Improvisation, Technology, and Winning World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /- One-of-a-kind retelling of the Normandy campaign - Places the 1944 battle for France in its social, economic, scientific, and technological con...
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Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Access the glossary of Tibetan terms.Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.Access the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 196...
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Georgia Tech
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Georgia Tech has become one of the nation's top-10-ranked public universities and boasts a former U.S. president, TV personality and Hall-of-Fame...
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Bourbon and Bullets: True Stories of Whiskey, War, and Military Service
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95Original price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered their courage, calmed ...
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Religion and the Romans / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Religion and the Romans provides a short, modern introduction to religion in the Roman world. It deals with the public and private nature of reli...
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History of the Jews, Vol. I (in Six Volumes): From the Earliest Period to the Death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B.C.E)
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A landmark work of Jewish history and a worldwide phenomenon when it was first published, this masterpiece of Jewish history was translated in mu...
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts, And Walled Cities Of The Middle Ages
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The castles of the Medieval world continue to interest readers, both as architectural wonders and because of their dramatic role in world history...
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A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Many people think of history as merely "the past"—or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the vo...
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