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  • Hello, Everybody!

    The Dawn of American Radio

    de Anthony Rudel ...
    "A lively overview" of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and "the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists" who flocked to it ( Publishers Weekly).Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn of the twentieth century, radio grew from an obscure hobby into a mass medium with the power to reach millions of ... Leer más

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  • Classical Music Top 40

    Learn How To Listen To And Appreciate The 40 Most Popular And Important Pieces I

    de Anthony Rudel ...
    The quintessential primer for the budding classical music lover.Millions of people adore classical music. Millions of other people want to, but simply don’t know how or where to start—so many composers, so many pieces, so many versions, so much music! In either case, this book is for you. In this informal and informative guide, Rudel leads listeners through the forty most essential and popular ... Leer más

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  • Gladius

    The World of the Roman Soldier

    This "encyclopedic [volume] collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire" ( The New York Times Book Review).The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. It was also the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended ... Leer más

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  • The First Total War

    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

    de David A. Bell ...
    "A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Leer más

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  • The Restaurant

    A 2,000-Year History of Dining Out

    The acclaimed food critic's two-thousand-year history of going out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today.Starting with the surprisingly sophisticated dining scene in the city of Pompeii, William Sitwell embarks on a romp through culinary history, meeting the characters and discovering the events that shape the way we eat today. The Daily ... Leer más

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  • Nixon Agonistes

    The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

    de Garry Wills ...
    With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Leer más

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  • Culture in Nazi Germany

    " A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation." ( Kirkus Reviews)Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the ... Leer más

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  • U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition

    de Bruce Catton ...
    A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's most misunderstood heroes: Ulysses S. Grant. In this classic work, Grant emerges as a complicated figure whose ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Revolution

    Germany 1918 to 1923

    de Chris Harman ...
    Series series International Socialism
    "Compelling . . . [a] classic study of the revolutionary process" (Neil Davidson, author of How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?).As the First World War was about to end in defeat, German sailors began to mutiny—giving voice to the widespread anger against the elites who had led the nation into war and the calamitous impact of that decision on everyday people. The events that followed ... Leer más

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  • A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London

    de David Thomas ...
    Series Libro 3 - A Visitor's Guide
    A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare's London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.In A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London, readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare's London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved, and had fun. You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth century from the voices of ... Leer más

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  • The Spirit of '74

    How the American Revolution Began

    How ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: "[A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension." — Publishers WeeklyAmericans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, ... Leer más

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  • Why the Wheel Is Round

    Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

    de Steven Vogel ...
    "A brilliant history of technology. . . . full of wonders of nature, human invention, history" and more ( Wall Street Journal).There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form ... Leer más

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