SEALs: The US Navy#s Elite Fighting Force (General Military)SEALs: The US Navy#s Elite Fighting Force (General Military) Since the US Navy SEALs came into existence in 1983, they have become famous for their daring missions, advanced and unconventional tactics, hard training and hard-fought successes. SEALs have taken part in numerous conflicts ranging from Grenada...
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical...
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Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure, and the Mystery of the Saxons In July 2009 an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast made an astonishing find: 1500 pieces of bejeweled gold and silver almost 1500 years old, buried, lost, then forgotten. The treasure trove promises to shed unprecedented light on the most mysterious period of...
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The New Deal: A Modern History Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government’s role in Americans’ lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to...
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” He delivered this speech just three years after...
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly The anchor of The O’Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the...
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Earth before the Dinosaurs (Life of the Past) This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending 200 million years later at the moment when the dinosaurs...
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The Cambridge Phenomenon A definitive history of the last 50 years of the Cambridge Phenomenon, and the incredible explosion of technology, life sciences and service companies that has occurred in the city since 1960. ISBN-10: 190650752X ISBN-13: 978-1906507527 Share
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How to Study the Bible Illustrated: Full-Color Expanded Edition of the 500,000-Copy Bestseller (Illustrated Pocket Reference) Here’s a half-million-copy bestseller made even better: How to Study the Bible is a concise, easy-to-understand guide to God’s Word—and now it’s illustrated in full color! This book provides an overview of personal Bible study for the layperson....
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