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  • Bacteria and Bayonets

    The Impact of Disease in American Military History

    A fascinating look at how microbes have affected war outcomes from colonial times to the present.Various powerful enemies from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee, have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier. Yet the deadliest enemy faced by the nation, one that has killed more warriors than all its foes combined, is disease.But ... Leer más

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  • Military History of New Jersey

    Series series Military
    War came to Garden State soil early. The Dutch fought the Indians in Kieft's War, while the English fought the Spanish in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the French, Swedes and native nations in dozens of other conflicts. New Jersey played an integral role as the "Crossroads of the American Revolution." The Battle of Trenton, the crossing of the Delaware and battles at Monmouth and Springfield helped ... Leer más

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  • The Republican Party and the Rise of China

    No man - or country - is an island, and China's emergence over the past two centuries was not solely the product of internal actions. In this ground-breaking study, David Petriello argues that out of all of the catalyzing influences in the creation of modern China, none was more vital than the Republican Party in the United States. From the 1780s to today, the various incarnations of this American ... Leer más

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  • Mad or Bad

    Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain

    In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and struggled for change. It left 'mad people' hanged for offenses they could not remember, and bad ... Leer más

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  • The Young Hitler I Knew

    A Boyhood Friend Recounts Growing Up with the Future Fuhrer of the Third Reich

    August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they competed for standing room at the opera. Kubizek describes a reticent young man, painfully shy, yet capable of bursting into hysterical fits of anger if anyone disagreed with him. But they grew close, often talking for hours on end. In 1908, they began sharing an apartment in Vienna. After being rejected twice from art school, Hitler found himself ... 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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  • 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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  • Anatomy of Malice

    The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals

    An eminent psychiatrist delves into the minds of Nazi leadershipin "a fresh look at the nature of wickedness, and at our attempts to explain it" (Sir Simon Wessely, Royal College of Psychiatrists).When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom ... Leer más

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  • The Big Change

    America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950

    The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, ... Leer más

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  • The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

    de Thomas Maeder ...
    The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door ... Leer más

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  • A Criminal History of Mankind

    de Colin Wilson ...
    This "immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages" tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia ( The Times, London).This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass ... Leer más

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  • Servants' Stories

    Life Below Stairs In Their Own Words, 1800–1950

    True accounts by domestic servants though a century and a half of British history revealing what their lives were really like—includes illustrations.Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically, but they remained the people without whom the upper and ... Leer más

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