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Product Description: Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851 1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day. Between 1890 and 1904, she produced seventeen books as well as numerous articles, pamphlets, and speeches about the life, manners, customs, and material culture of colonial New England...read more

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9781558499874 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851 1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day.

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9781558499881 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day.

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By Allan Nevins (editor)

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9781412847407 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, June 21, 2012), cover price $34.95

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9780307408846 | Crown Pub, May 10, 2011, cover price $28.00

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9780307408853 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, May 1, 2012), cover price $17.00
9780739378144 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, May 17, 2011), cover price $26.00

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9780307914576 | Unabridged edition (Random House, May 10, 2011), cover price $45.00

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Product Description: This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E. Bolton (1870–1953), a leading historian of the American West, Mexico, and Latin America. Bolton, a famous pupil of Frederick Jackson Turner, formulated a concept―the borderlands―that is a foundation of historical studies today...read more

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9780520272163 | Univ of California Pr, February 29, 2012, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E.

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Product Description: The magisterial “collaboration” over half a lifetime between historian Dumas Malone and his subject, Thomas Jefferson, is the basis for William G. Hyland Jr.’s compelling Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson. Malone, the courtly and genteel historian from Mississippi, spent thirty-eight years researching and writing the definitive biography of the man who “invented the United States of America...read more

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9781612341972 | Potomac Books Inc, January 31, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The magisterial “collaboration” over half a lifetime between historian Dumas Malone and his subject, Thomas Jefferson, is the basis for William G.

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Product Description: Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. A journalist, lecturer, radio broadcaster, and teacher of renown, Freeman wrote and spoke on themes related to southern memory throughout his life...read more

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9780807140048 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 21, 2011, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners.

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Product Description: Memory and History, the second volume of historian Rod Stackelberg's autobiography, picks up his personal and professional reminiscences where his first volume, Out of Hitler's Shadow (2010), left off. After teaching high school in northern Vermont, Stackelberg belatedly resumed his graduate training in pursuit of a college teaching career...read more

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9781462064410 | Iuniverse Inc, November 18, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Memory and History, the second volume of historian Rod Stackelberg's autobiography, picks up his personal and professional reminiscences where his first volume, Out of Hitler's Shadow (2010), left off.

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9781462064427 | Iuniverse Inc, November 18, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Memory and History, the second volume of historian Rod Stackelberg's autobiography, picks up his personal and professional reminiscences where his first volume, Out of Hitler's Shadow (2010), left off.

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A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review)Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than fifty years of reporting.

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9781410434746 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 16, 2011), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review)Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.
9780670022144 | Viking Pr, October 14, 2010, cover price $25.95

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9780143119890 | Penguin USA, September 27, 2011, cover price $15.00

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9781568592886 | Mazda Pub, January 31, 2011, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union...read more
By Julie Hessler (editor)

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9780230105492 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2010, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.

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9780230109308 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2010, cover price $32.00

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Product Description: Morton Keller recounts his "not extraordinary life played out in quite extraordinary times"—from the Great Depression through World War Two, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11. A classic American saga of respectable achievement from relatively humble origins, his life through eight-plus decades as a dues-paying member of the middle class resonates beyond the individual to echo the experiences, the beliefs, and the values of his generation...read more

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9780817911843 | Hoover Inst Pr, December 1, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Morton Keller recounts his "not extraordinary life played out in quite extraordinary times"—from the Great Depression through World War Two, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11.

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Product Description: Zinn For Beginners describes the life and work of the most vital historian of our time. Howard Zinn led a revolution in the writing of history by telling the story not from the standpoint of conquerors and rulers, but from the side of the ordinary people who always bear the brunt of the ambitions of tyrants...read more
By Joe Lee (illustrator)

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9781934389409 | Red Wheel/Weiser, August 18, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Zinn For Beginners describes the life and work of the most vital historian of our time.

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Examines twelve recent cases involving history scandals and historian misconduct, arguing that media spectacles are ending careers with the support of the Republican Party, in a volume that includes coverage of the cases of Michael Bellesiles, Joseph Ellis, and Stephan Thernstrom. 13,000 first printing.

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9781565848849 | New Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines twelve recent cases involving history scandals and historian misconduct, arguing that media spectacles are ending careers with the support of the Republican Party, in a volume that includes coverage of the cases of Michael Bellesiles, Joseph Ellis, and Stephan Thernstrom.
9780126053654, titled "Hydrogenation Methods" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $113.00 | also contains Hydrogenation Methods

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9781595581594 | New Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $15.95
9780072414004, titled "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues" | 11th edition (McGraw-Hill College, September 1, 2000), cover price $24.50 | also contains Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues

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Product Description: From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world’s premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this often misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, thereby shaping perceptions of the Amish throughout American society...read more

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9780271026862 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A.
9780075485506, titled "Professional Engineering Practice: Ethical Aspects" | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | also contains Professional Engineering Practice: Ethical Aspects

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Presents a collection of articles that debate such issues as the news media, immigration, same-sex marriages, welfare reform, white-collar crime, and affirmitive action.
By Kurt Finsterbusch (editor)

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9780072968750 | 13th edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2004), cover price $28.80 | About this edition: Presents a collection of articles that debate such issues as the news media, immigration, same-sex marriages, welfare reform, white-collar crime, and affirmitive action.
9780072933130 | 12th rev edition (McGraw-Hill College, July 1, 2003), cover price $26.30
9780072822786 | 12th edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2002), cover price $25.60
9780072414004 | 11th edition (McGraw-Hill College, September 1, 2000), cover price $24.50 | also contains Historians In Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, And Politics In The Ivory Tower
9781561342952 | 8th edition (Dushkin Pub Group, February 1, 1994), cover price $18.75
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9780078706240 | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1996), cover price $42.01 | also contains Star Wars: Empire at War: Prima Official Game Guide
9780070134522 | 2 sub edition (McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1996), cover price $44.95
9780070134270 | Tab Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto

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9780071421393 | 3 sub edition (McGraw-Hill Professional Pub, September 1, 2003), cover price $52.00
9780070134539 | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1996), cover price $34.95
9780070134232 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | also contains Collector's Guide to My Merry With Values: With Values

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Traces the life of the American novelist from his childhood in Utah, to Harvard, to his writing career that included novels, prize-winning Western histories, and his monthly column 'Easy Chair' in Harper's magazine. (view table of contents)

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9780070134270, titled "Multiengine Flying" | Tab Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | also contains Multiengine Flying

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9780803292840 | Bison Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the American novelist from his childhood in Utah, to Harvard, to his writing career that included novels, prize-winning Western histories, and his monthly column 'Easy Chair' in Harper's magazine.
9780879052997 | Reprint edition (Gibbs Smith, February 1, 1989), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Chronicles DeVoto's private life and traces his career as a scholar and journalist
9780026656603, titled "Safety and Sanitation" | Bennett & McKnight Pub Co, June 1, 1985, cover price $11.24 | also contains Safety and Sanitation

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Product Description: The history of a professor's daring stand for principles during the Civil Rights era in Mississippi and the impetus behind his writing of Mississippi: The Closed Society

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9780878052097 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 1984, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: The history of a professor's daring stand for principles during the Civil Rights era in Mississippi and the impetus behind his writing of Mississippi: The Closed Society

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9781934110584 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 30, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The history of a professor's daring stand for principles during the Civil Rights era in Mississippi and the impetus behind his writing of Mississippi: The Closed Society
9780136278023, titled "Nutrition: An Inquiry into the Issues" | Subsequent edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1983), cover price $42.60 | also contains Nutrition: An Inquiry into the Issues

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Product Description: He saved her life, & for that she was grateful, but that didn't make her blind to his faults, he used women for his own pleasure, & had a dark secret

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9780373025732 | Harlequin Books, September 1, 1983, cover price $1.75 | also contains Old Blue's Road: A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West | About this edition: He saved her life, & for that she was grateful, but that didn't make her blind to his faults, he used women for his own pleasure, & had a dark secret

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