Presents the stories behind hundreds of everyday objects and consumer products, covering items ranging from clothing and tools to housing and games, in an omnibus for trivia buffs that is complemented by informative timelines and sidebars. ... Read more

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Hundreds of specially commissioned photographs offer a detailed study of more than three hundred different guns, from rifles and pistols to machine guns and grenade launchers, in an informative history of weapons that also looks at how guns were and are made and profiles the world's leading gun manu... Read more

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An editor of Congressional Quarterly explores the one-term presidency of James K. Polk, during which the United States extended its territory across the continent by threatening England and manufacturing a controversial war with Mexico that Abraham Lincoln, in Congress at the time, opposed as pre-em... Read more

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In addition to being the bestselling author of WEALTH AND POVERTY, George Gilder is also a staunch proponent of capitalism and technology. Gilder brings these interests to the conflict in the Middle East, as he presents the case for Israel, arguing that it is the main civilizing force in the region ... Read more

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Traces the vivid stories of the wives of Theodore Weld, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant to demonstrate how their personal beliefs were overshadowed by the supporting roles they played to their high-profile husbands before unique wartime and personal challenges brought their characters to the f... Read more

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Discover the marvelous stories of the world's modern nations with the newest volume of this read-aloud series.Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolution?Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives—and ou... Read more

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FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelis... Read more

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In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce deplo... Read more

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In 2005, Marcus Luttrell and his four-man Navy SEAL team were in the mountains along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan hunting down a dangerous al Qaeda leader. The mission, Operation Redwing, suddenly came into jeopardy when they stumbled into a group of goat herders. They had two choices: kil... Read more

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From those wise folks who produced the bestselling INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL, comes another collection that supports their idea that we can find inspiration and comfort in secular writings as well as religious ones. This time, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim have ranged through the great writi... Read more

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A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into the passionate nature of America's first great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. ... Read more

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A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political... Read more

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Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. ... Read more

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A conspiracy theorist asserts that the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations--as well as the freemasons and the Knights Templar--operate behind the scenes as a perpetual government, pulling the strings as they strive toward one world. ... Read more

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Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism. ... Read more

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