A major collection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. ... Read more

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Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption. ... Read more

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A panoramic history of the conflict between England and America highlights the political and personal aspects of the colonial struggle for independence, provides a defintive overview of the events leading up to the Revolution, and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, battles, and repercussions of... Read more

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It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused wide-spread unemployment. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted towar... Read more

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In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished b... Read more

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This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States.... Read more

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Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and important leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into recently disclosed docume... Read more

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In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities someti... Read more

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Written in the spirit of an idea about ideas, a narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to talk about ideas and whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Pei... Read more

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A book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. ... Read more

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald P... Read more

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Originally published in stages, here at last, is the long-awaited complete geology chronicles based on author John McPhee's travels across North America with geologists since 1978. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology, and a mas... Read more

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Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources... Read more

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"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ag... Read more

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The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana. ... Read more

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A mock-biography of the English hermit and saint (1065-1170). ... Read more

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The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files found in the United States and the former Soviet Union. "A d... Read more

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This history charts the post-World War I efforts by the Allies to deal with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and how decisions made then influenced the region's history and geopolitics for the rest of the century (and beyond). These efforts included creating new states and entities, including what wa... Read more

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The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. The book chronicles the attempts to bring the black and white communities together, both th... Read more

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Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming. ... Read more

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