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Democracy in America
A French aristocrat's account of the ways in which democratic ideals were applied in America during the nineteenth century.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The fates of human societies.
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The Histories
The story of the Greek city-states uniting to repel a superior Persian army is the main theme in this classical narrative, but Herodotus fleshes out his text with digressions, describing …
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The Civil War Trilogy
Presents a collection of three novels that present a fictionalized account of the battles of the Civil War.
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Stolen Valor
Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.
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Silent Spring
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword …
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting …
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The Quark and the Jaguar
From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world. As a theoretical physicist, Murray Gell-Mann has …
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Napoleon's Buttons
Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible …
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The Immense Journey
Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
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The Red and the Black
A Major New Translation The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to …
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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem …
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Les Misérables
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A …