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Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science

Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide...

Author: Geert Vanpaemel
ISBN: 9789462704336
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Historical walking guide along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. Throughout its history,...  Read More >>

Antioch to the Twenties: Second Edition - Revised & Expanded

Antioch to the Twenties: Second Edition - Revised &...

Author: Elise S Benyo ,  Carol Jensen
ISBN: 9798218218454
Format: Paperback
$79.20

History of Antioch, Contra Costa County, California from 1850 to 1929.  Read More >>

The Siege of Charleston

The Siege of Charleston

Author: Richard Blackmon
ISBN: 9781467161404
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The siege of Charleston during the American Civil War is the longest siege in US history. Using historic images,...  Read More >>

Working Watersheds: Water and Energy in the Lackawanna Valley

Working Watersheds: Water and Energy in the Lackawanna...

Author: William Conlogue
ISBN: 9781439926161
Format: Hardback
$249.48

""The Lackawanna Valley's history reveals how energy production and water circulation created positive feedback...  Read More >>

Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History...

Author: Richard Kreitner
ISBN: 9780316510578
Format: Paperback
$58.05

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a ""powerful revisionist account""of the most persistent idea in...  Read More >>

Winslow

Winslow

Author: Ann-Mary J Lutzick
ISBN: 9781467161640
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Founded by the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1880, Winslow evolved from a company boomtown into a small city whose...  Read More >>

Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind the Brands

Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind...

Author: Jon Milan ,  Gail Offen
ISBN: 9781467153058
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Michigan is home to an amazing array of food and drink brands, each with a fascinating story behind it. Ready-to-eat...  Read More >>

Lost Grand Resorts of Old Lake Tahoe

Lost Grand Resorts of Old Lake Tahoe

Author: Paul Nelson
ISBN: 9781467157575
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Travel to the past and enjoy a string quartet and a five-course dinner in an elegant wilderness. Beginning in the...  Read More >>

Ira Aten: Last of the Old Texas Rangers

Ira Aten: Last of the Old Texas Rangers

Author: Harold Preece
ISBN: 9781941324875
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Ira Aten left this world in 1953, aged ninety years. In that time he had been a sheriff, range detective, ranch...  Read More >>

1491 Days In The Confederate Army

1491 Days In The Confederate Army

Author: William W Heartsill
ISBN: 9781941324257
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Imagine you spent fourteen hundred and ninety-one days fighting the bloodiest war in your country's history, and...  Read More >>

The First Settler of Lewes: A History of the Fourth Street Preserve

The First Settler of Lewes: A History of the Fourth...

Author: Michael Rawl
ISBN: 9781467158626
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Learn about efforts underway to save the historic and environmentally important Fourth Street Preserve. IIn...  Read More >>

Johnstown Basketball: The Cambria County War Memorial Invitational Tournament

Johnstown Basketball: The Cambria County War Memorial...

Author: Bradley A Huebner ,  Gene Banks
ISBN: 9781467156042
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Amid a series of three destructive floods that pounded little Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in less than a century, Cambria...  Read More >>

Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves and Little-Known Locales

Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves and Little-Known...

Author: Steve Platto
ISBN: 9781467157216
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Most know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they're...  Read More >>

Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City

Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City

Author: Alex Hannaford
ISBN: 9798874800024
Format: Audio
$176.85

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City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994

City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994

Author: Seth A Weitz ,  Graham Rowat
ISBN: 9798228301801
Format: Audio
$190.05

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Irish Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

Irish Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

Author: Colin Urwin
ISBN: 9781803997728
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A collection of traditional folk tales, including history, folklore and nature observations about the coasts and...  Read More >>

Kentucky, Y'all: A Celebration of the People and Culture of the Bluegrass State

Kentucky, Y'all: A Celebration of the People and Culture...

Author: Blair Thomas Hess ,  Cameron M Ludwick
ISBN: 9781985900738
Format: Paperback
$65.87

When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe,...  Read More >>

Reminiscing the Road

Reminiscing the Road

Author: Betty Oglesbee ,  John Oglesbee
ISBN: 9781622882694
Format: Paperback
$66.00

In some ways, this volume 7 in the Ann and F. Lee Lawrence East Texas History Series of site-specific monographs,...  Read More >>

Chicago Latina Trailblazers: Testimonios of Political Activism

Chicago Latina Trailblazers: Testimonios of Political...

Author: Rita D. Hernández ,  Leticia Villarreal Sosa
ISBN: 9780252088162
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Mexican American and Puerto Rican women have long taken up the challenge to improve the lives of Chicagoans in the...  Read More >>

When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of...

Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason
ISBN: 9780252088186
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later,...  Read More >>

Kentucky, Y'all: A Celebration of the People and Culture of the Bluegrass State

Kentucky, Y'all: A Celebration of the People and Culture...

Author: Blair Thomas Hess ,  Cameron M Ludwick
ISBN: 9781985900721
Format: Hardback
$132.00

When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe,...  Read More >>

William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Botanical Drawings of an American Naturalist

William Bartram's Visual Wonders: The Botanical Drawings...

Author: Elizabeth A Athens
ISBN: 9780822948261
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Positions Bartram's Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World  Read More >>

Long Beach State at 75

Long Beach State at 75

Author: Barbara Kingsley-Wilson
ISBN: 9798886452228
Format: Hardback
$110.75

The first students registered for college at a strawberry stand by the side of the road. Early classes were held...  Read More >>

Ben Evans: The Story of a Swansea Store

Ben Evans: The Story of a Swansea Store

Author: Jeff Stewart
ISBN: 9781068707766
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The history and story of Ben Evans an iconic Swansea Store.  Read More >>

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