
The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and...

An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories
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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the...

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood...

The Beheading and Other True Stories: My Shocking Journey Through the Savagery of the Modern-Day Middle East
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'The Beheading' is the title piece of this spectacular collection of true stories and commentaries....

A Little History of Science
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Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism,...

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
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This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a...
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The Jewish Journey
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The Jewish Journey is unique in three respects. First, it is a short, accessible, affordable and...

Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
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Roger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writing Wildwood is about the element...

Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence - And Changed America
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From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the...

The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves
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You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the...