| 251. America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines | |
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by: Gail Collins List Price: $27.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.01 You Save: $8.94 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The author worked very hard compiling this fascinating treatise on the history of the American woman. Beginning with the earliest Americans to today, I learned a lot that I hadn't heard before. Interesting details and observations, make you feel like you are really there, living in the century or era described. You can actually feel it, real. Let me tell you! Our foremothers had GUTS and TRUE GRIT. I am a history buff and have been reading up on women's history for at least 20 years. This ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 252. The Greatest Stories Never Told : 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy | |
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by: Rick Beyer List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.57 You Save: $5.38 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description A very entertaining collection of stories of unusual events and people from history. Arranged chronologicaly, starting with the Romans who stole time, and proceeding through such enthralling tales as the man who didn't discover America because he wanted to get home,and king Edward II' valiant but futile attempt to ban soccer (now I know why he was murdered, it was enraged footer fans). Some cherished myths are briskly disposed of, like the notion that medieval people thought the world was flat, and we ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 253. Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 | |
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by: Simon Winchester List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I guess what one reviewer called "tongue-in-cheek" I just found distracting. This book is nearly 400 pages long, yet the volcano pops on page 211. Need I say more? Not really, but (like Mr. Winchester) I will: I generally like anything geographical (Longitudes is the exemplar, but also The Mapmakers, Into Thin Air, Perfect Storm), or scientific/mathematical (The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Simon Singh's books), so the subject matter appeals. But the writer is key (although I must say I found Galileo's Daughter ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 254. The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse | |
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by: Tom Downey List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This well written book tells the story of NYC fire fighters. Had trouble putting it down because it was so exciting. A tribute to those who save lives. Read Reviews and Description
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| 255. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy | |
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by: David Stevenson, Stevenson List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $24.50 You Save: $10.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description David Stevenson has written a superb history of the First World War that describes how and why the war lasted for over four years. The first factor according to Stevenson was the unreal war goals of both of the combatants. Another factor was that all of the great powers were able to keep large armies on the field for an indefinite amount of time due to advances in medicine. Military technology impeded further advances on the front since railways could transport troops to threatend sectors of the front and thereby making any ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 256. The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty | |
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by: Caroline Alexander List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is an informative and interesting presentation of Bligh's mission on the Bounty and the events which followed. The book lends particular focus on how the Haywood and Christian families "spun" the tale after the fact to make the mutineers seem more "noble" and Bligh more "evil". As far as I can tell, it's a straight-up, honest and well-researched account of what really happened. However, it does seem to me that the book spends proportionally too much time on the court martial and Peter Haywood's family and life, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 257. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates | |
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by: David Cordingly List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description It is difficult to find intelligent, well written, historically accurate accounts on such broad (yet obscure) topics as piracy on the high seas. It is even more difficult to find ones whose style doesn't dull the compelling nature of the institution. Cordingly however, is able to put forth to his readers a refined historical account, that is long on both drama and accuracy. This book fills a gap, on the study of pirates, that existed between the overly scholarly and the overly sensational, giving both the history buff and the mildly ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 258. Confederates in the Attic : Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures) | |
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by: TONY HORWITZ List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description It's hard to know what to say about Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic. This is a strange book, by turns humorous and serious, in which Horwitz recounts his efforts to come to grips with the American preoccupation with its Civil War. He admits his own strange fascination - and with the Confederacy at that - especially peculiar for the Yankee grandson of a Russian Jewish immigrant. He starts his journey through a chance meeting with some reenactors who introduce him to this increasingly popular subculture, with its own set ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 259. Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2004-2005 Edition (PRINCETON REVIEW SERIES) | |
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by: Tom Meltzer, Jean Hofheimer Bennett List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $12.60 You Save: $5.40 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description A great way to review for the APs. It is summarized in ways that are extremely easy to understand. Plenty of maps and cartoons. Explains the actual AP test and has great sample tests (multiple choice, DBQ, & FRQ), plus all the answers and bullet-style options for the essays. I strongly recommend this book!!!! Read Reviews and Description
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| 260. In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat | |
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by: Rick Atkinson List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description No matter what your feelings are about the Iraq war, there's no doubt that the men who were on the ground (and still are, for the most part) conducted themselves with great elan. Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of AN ARMY AT DAWN, took a break from writing the second book of the series to spend time with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, embedded for the Washington Post. His new book, IN THE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS, chronicles his time with the division. While I found it an interesting book, I feel that it doesn't give what is promised. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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