| 301. Omaha Beach D-Day June 6, 1944 | |
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by: Joseph Balkoski List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a well-researched D-Day book that tells the story of Omaha Beach, based on 1944 veteran interviews, some just days after the landings, and official Action Reports. Rather than relying primarily on veteran memories sixty years after the Normandy operation or leaving out special naval units in the spearhead of the attack, Joe Balkoski provides fascinating first-person accounts using a scholarly research style. On page 156, Balkoski describes the 6th Naval Beach Battalion, attached ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 302. Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook (Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook) | |
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by: Fraderick R., MD Sidell, William C., III Patrick, Thomas R. Dashiell, Ken, Md. Alibek, Scott, Md. Layne List Price: $32.50 Amazon.com's Price: $29.25 You Save: $3.25 (10%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a wonderful book for any first responder to have. It is very easy to use because not only does it come with on and off scene procedures, but it also has quick reference tables and charts. On a scale of 1 to 5 I give it a 10! Read Reviews and Description
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| 303. Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter | |
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by: Adeline Yen Mah List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Adeline Yen Mah's, _Fallen Leaves: _The Memoirs of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter_... is an incredible story. _Fallen Leaves_, would be a perfect book for adults who are very interested in the Chinese culture. However, teenagers with an interest in different cultures would also be able to appreciate the difficult life Adeline Yen Mah encountered. I would not recommend _Fallen Leaves_ for sensitive or extremely emotional adults. _Fallen Leaves_ was written in chapters. Each chapter includes another ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 304. The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America | |
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by: Edmund S. Morgan List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This elegant collection of essays is a tour de force. The variety and penetration of the 24 pieces from the "New York Review of Books" give the cumulative effect of a whirlwind sweeping across the landscape of early America. Each chapter is a book review, and Morgan sifts such insight from each work that you feel as if you simply must read it for yourself. Alas, you and I will likely not read as good of books simply because we're not the readers that Morgan is. And it is just as likely that the authors ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 305. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power | |
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by: Victor Davis Hanson List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $4.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Hanson's "Carnage and Culture" is worth reading for its vigorous style as well as its thought-provoking thesis. Books about military history are often fairly dry, but Hanson writes clearly and in the active voice, perhaps unconciously emulating the Western military tactics he describes. He argues that Western success on the battlefield is a cultural phenomenon, not just the result of good fortune in the allocation of resources or the serendipity of technology. Free nations produce leaders and soldiers who take ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 306. Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul | |
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by: Roy Porter, Simon Schama List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $20.96 You Save: $8.99 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I cannot believe no one has reviewed Roy Porter's last book. It reminds me of the Metaphysical Club, but it is perhaps a bit more wry. I enjoyed it thoroughly and have added it to my collection of books on the Enlightenment. It was simultaneously funny and intellectual stimulating. Also, Porter makes the subject of the Enlightmentment exciting. Read Reviews and Description
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| 307. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing | |
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by: Roger Lowenstein List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description There are only two emotions that motivate the stock market: fear and greed. In his latest market history, Roger Lowenstein explores how the theme of creating shareholder value morphed into unbridled greed and led to the latest stock market crash. Delving back to the 1970s and 1980s, Lowenstein spins a compelling narrative, of heavy hitters -- Jack Grubman, Sandy Weill, Frank Quattrone, Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker, Abby Cohen, Bernie Ebbers, Frank Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Gary Winnick -- who checked their moral ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 308. Parachute Infantry : An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich | |
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by: David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description If you have read and enjoyed Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose and/or have seen the HBO mini-series, then this book is a must read! The author, David Kenyon Webster, is one of the "Band of Brothers" and is the main character in episode eight, "The Last Patrol". This book is a fast paced, sometimes humorous, and often moving account of the late Mr. Webster's experiences during WW II. If you can imagine reading "Band of Brothers" had it been wriiten by one of the participants, that will give you an idea of what this book is like. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 309. Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission | |
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by: Paul Hattaway List Price: $11.99 Amazon.com's Price: $9.59 You Save: $2.40 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is an excellent book with an inspiring message, of what the chinese church is all about. If you want to read a book about people totally abandoning themselves to a cause than this is a must read. Read Reviews and Description
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| 310. 1968 : The Year That Rocked the World | |
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by: MARK KURLANSKY List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Mark Kurlansky has written the most important book ever published about one of this nation's most galvanizing, divisive, and imposing years in modern history. Baby boomers who lived through this history as college students will discover context and multi-faceted details about how this year changed them indelibly. Younger readers will gain a richer understanding about how the events of 1968 benefit them today, including feminism, racial integration, and a healthy distrust of powerful elites. (Imagine what it was like to be expelled ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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