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Governor Jonathan Belcher

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Belcher Foundation:

Seller ID: 115917

ISBN: 0976447371

Condition: Used - Very Good

Wagner and His Operas (New Grove Composers Series)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: St Martins Pr: November 1999

Seller ID: 307216

ISBN: 0312244320

Condition: Used - Very Good

The New Grove name is one of the most prestigious imprints of music reference books in the world. Already the publisher of The New Grove Book of Operas, St. Martin's is now making these exhaustive volumes on Verdi and Wagner and their operas available in two beautiful packages at an affordable price.

The books have been written from renowned authorities from around the world, and are illustrated with music examples and halftones. Each begins with an introduction by Stanley Sadie and offers:
-- a chronology which situates the operas in the wider context of the composer's career
-- a su...
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W.E.B. Du Bois (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub: December 2002

Seller ID: 336823

ISBN: 0791078205

Condition: Used - Very Good

- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom
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Lindbergh

By: A. Scott Berg

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Putnam Adult: September 1998

Seller ID: 21518

ISBN: 0399144498

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bestselling author and National Book Award-winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives -- more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries -- and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth.

From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust on ...
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Nixon: A Life

By: Aitken, Jonathan

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.: April 1994

Seller ID: 349800

ISBN: 0895264897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life of Washington

By: Anna Reed

Price: $16.99

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group/Attic Books: November 2009

Seller ID: 320364

ISBN: 0890515786

Condition: New

A rare, faith-filled historic biography of America's first President, George Washington. In this special edition of a vintage 1842 original, readers will go beyond today's simple footnotes of this great leader, to discover the man behind the title of Father of Our Country.
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Adolf Galland: The Authorised Biography

By: Baker, David

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Combined Publishing: January 1997

Seller ID: 310681

ISBN: 1859150179

Condition: Used - Very Good

This biography is the life story of Germany's most famous World War II air force officer, Adolf Galland. As a fighter ace, he became the youngest general in the Wehrmacht, whose combat career spanned the years from biplanes over Spain to the first operational jet fighters. His command position put him in perilously close contact with the leaders of the Third Reich.
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Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

By: Benjamin Thomas

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Barnes Noble Books: January 1994

Seller ID: 130930

ISBN: 1566193605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Columbus: The Four Voyages

By: Bergreen

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Viking Adult: September 2011

Seller ID: 272229

ISBN: 0670023019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the author of the Magellan biography, "Over the Edge of the World, " a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they reveal...
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By: Bhikhu Parekh

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: April-2001

Seller ID: 6305

ISBN: 0192854577

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest.
In Gandhi, a short introduction to Gandhi's life and thought, Bhikhu Parekh outlines both Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought....
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Priceless Memories

By: Bob Barker, Digby Diehl

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Center Street: April 2009

Seller ID: 147308

ISBN: 1599951355

Condition: Used - Very Good

Television icon Bob Barker, beloved by millions for his charisma and charm, shares his life - both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
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The Discoverers

By: Boorstin

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: February 1985

Seller ID: 284793

ISBN: 0394726251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
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A General's Life: An Autobiography by General of the Army Omar N. Bradley

By: Bradley, Omar N., Blair, Clay

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1983

Seller ID: 270416

ISBN: 0671410237

Condition: Used - Very Good

A World Transformed

By: Bush

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Vintage: September 1999

Seller ID: 279858

ISBN: 0679752595

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War."
-The New York Tmes Book Review

"Among the finest expositions of modern American foreign policy. . . . An excellent book."
-Eugene V. Rostow, The Wall Street Journal

It was a pivotal administration in the history of American foreign policy--for during George Bush's presidency a series of international events took place that had a profound impact on the course of America and on the future of world diplomacy.
In A World Transformed, Mr. Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scow...
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Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age

By: Christopher Hibbert

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Perseus Books: April-1991

Seller ID: 6978

ISBN: 0201156261

Condition: Used - Very Good

An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch. Christopher Hibbert's Elizabeth I is a revelation--a genius and world leader, presiding over one of Europe's most glittering ages, singing, riding to the hunt, composing verse, summoning armadas, dealing coldly with traitors. A well-rounded and well-written study . . . an excellent introduction to a remarkable woman.--The Observer. Four-color insert.
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

By: Cohen, Adam

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: January 2009

Seller ID: 327037

ISBN: 159420196X

Condition: Used - Very Good

A revealing account of the critical first days of FDR's presidency, during the worst moments of the Great Depression, when he and his inner circle launched the New Deal and presided over the birth of modern America
"Nothing to Fear" brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history?the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle swept away the old order and reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, thousands of banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers ...
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Patton: Genius for War, A

By: D'Este, Carlo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial: November 1996

Seller ID: 317484

ISBN: 0060927623

Condition: Used - Very Good

Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure."

"This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning Ne...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Signet classics)

By: Dana

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Signet Classics: May 1964

Seller ID: 287900

ISBN: 0451523695

Condition: Used - Very Good

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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books: January 2009

Seller ID: 15534

ISBN: 0345478002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all their proud accomplishments and earthy humanity. Award-winning biographer and poet Daniel Mark Epstein gives a fresh close-up view of the couple's life in Springfield, Illinois (of their twenty-two years of marriage, all but six were spent there), and dramatizes with stunnin...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

By: Dava Sobel

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): November 2000

Seller ID: 4696

ISBN: 0140280553

Condition: Used - Very Good

-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists
-- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
-- Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and the American Library Association
-- Longitude sold more than 300,000 copies in paperback and spent 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list
-- The Penguin edition features a stunning package with a beautiful step...
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Category: Historical Biographies