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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

By: Dava Sobel

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 2000

Seller ID: 331796

ISBN: 0140280553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists-- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award-- Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and the American Library Association-- Longitude sold more than 300,000 copies in paperback and spent 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list-- The Penguin edition features a stunning package with a beautiful step...
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

By: David Cordingly

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: September 2007

Seller ID: 333067

ISBN: 1582345341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the bestselling author of "Under the Black Flag, "comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling 19th century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based. Nicknamed "le loup des mers" ("the sea wolf") by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time. In this fascinating account of Cochrane's life, David Cordingly, author of the bestselling "Under the Black Flag "and" The Billy Ruffian," unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander," from his daring exploits against the French navy ...
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The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh - The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters

By: David Grafton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Villard: February 1992

Seller ID: 281819

ISBN: 0394584163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey

By: David Horowitz

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Touchstone: April 1998

Seller ID: 254601

ISBN: 0684840057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This riveting national bestseller is an intimate, uncompromising account of personal and political transformation, documenting David Horowitz's journey from 1960s radical to 1990s conservative. As he explores his painful estrangement from his radical parents and former political collaborators, Horowitz forms the framework for an incisive critique of the evolution of the American Left and a scathing indictment of the legacy of the 1960s."Radical Son is the single most important book I've ever read about modern American history and politics". -- Mary Matalin
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Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci

By: DaVinci, Leonardo

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: November 1991

Seller ID: 340189

ISBN: 0060160659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Rommel: Desert Fox

By: Desmond Young

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Quill / William Morrrow: February 1987

Seller ID: 243235

ISBN: 0688067719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Early in 1941, the famed British Eighth Army was on the route to victory in North Africa. Just a few months later, this same army was on the verge of total defeat, as the Germans had won victory after victory and were threatening to overrun Egypt and the Middle East.Here is the classic biography of the man who masterminded this great turnabout, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the German Afrika Korps. The man who burned Hitler's order to execute British raiders and who gave Allied prisoners the same food and medical treatment as his German troops. The tough general who personally...
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Kovacsland: Biography Of Ernie Kovacs

By: Diana Rico

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1991

Seller ID: 307793

ISBN: 0156472503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ernie Kovacs lived his life at fever pitch - a life that ended in 1962 when his car skidded out of control. Kovacsland is an engrossing and entertaining portrait of a television pioneer. Index; photographs.
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DISRAELI

By: Disraeli

Price: $9.95

Publisher: ST MARTINS PRESS: January 1967

Seller ID: 340186

ISBN: B0012ZTKA8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

By: Doig, Ivan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1982

Seller ID: 344019

ISBN: 0156972158

Condition: Used - Very Good

The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2004

Seller ID: 226291

ISBN: 0393326020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2004

Seller ID: 261171

ISBN: 0393326020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West

By: Edward Rice

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: April 1991

Seller ID: 331028

ISBN: 0060973943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Golda

By: Elinor Burkett

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper: April 2008

Seller ID: 281082

ISBN: 0060786655

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history, Golda Meir was a member of the tiny coterie of founders of the State of Israel, the architect of its socialist infrastructure, and its most tenacious international defender. Her uncompromising devotion to shaping and defending a Jewish homeland against dogged enemies and skittish allies stunned political contemporaries skeptical about the stamina of an elderly leader, and transformed Middle Eastern politics for decades to follow. A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

By: Elissa Wall

Price: $7.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: September 2008

Seller ID: 335008

ISBN: 0061715190

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bismarck: The Story of a Fighter

By: Emil Ludwig

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: February 2013

Seller ID: 229870

ISBN: 1620871769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Ottovon Bismarck was more than a politician and a leader: he was the single drivingforce that turned the disparate states of Germany into one cohesive empire. Hethen went on to lead Germany and the rest of Europe into an age of politicalpeace that lasted from 1871 until the outbreak of World War I. Under hisinfluence, Germany thrived. Bismarck s use of statesmanship to fight for theinterests of his country was legendary. As one of the most influential andpowerful individuals in his country s history, Bismarck became a symbol ofleadership and pride for German nationalists. The historical con...
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Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization

By: Emmett J. Scott

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co: 1916

Seller ID: 295227

ISBN: B00087TC6S

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Bolivian Diary

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion:

Seller ID: 328073

ISBN: 0007846592

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolution

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion:

Seller ID: 328378

ISBN: 0007846584

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Journey into the Whirlwind

By: Eugenia Ginzburg

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: March 1975

Seller ID: 182478

ISBN: 0156465094

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist

By: Faulkner

Price: $5.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: August 1988

Seller ID: 343350

ISBN: 0060915013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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