The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must...
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
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Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins. Indeed, until...
The New Boys of Summer: Baseball's Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties
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The 1960s were among the most compelling years in the history of the United States, from the...
WWI in Cartoons
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In an age before TV and radio the impact and importance of cartoon art was immense, especially when...
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general...
Cuba Cars: Classic Cars of the Caribbean
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Cuba is worth a visit. Or, as the authors of this book discovered, several. The average package...
Wise Trees
Diane Cook, Len Jenshel and Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning...
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville, Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession....
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN...
The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine
Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman, Sonya Gropman and Nach Waxman
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This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War...