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Brooklyn's Bridge to Tomorrow: Unveiling the Borough's Past, Present, and Future

Brooklyn's Bridge to Tomorrow: Unveiling the Borough's...

Author: Brooke Berry
ISBN: 9798872392156
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"Experience ""Brooklyn's Bridge to Tomorrow"" an immersive journey that weaves together the colorful stories of...  Read More >>

Los niños del Amazonas: 40 días perdidos en la selva / The Children of the Amazo n

Los niños del Amazonas: 40 días perdidos en la selva...

Author: Daniel Coronell
ISBN: 9786287539570
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Lo intent�e mucho y no consegu�i una explicaci�on. Despu�es de 40 d�ias de b�usqueda por parte de los militares...  Read More >>

The Lost City of Melbourne

The Lost City of Melbourne

Author: Gus Berger
ISBN: 9780646885445
Format: Hardback
$75.00

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True-Crime Story: The Osage Murders and the Reign of Terror

True-Crime Story: The Osage Murders and the Reign of...

Author: Robert Kennedy
ISBN: 9798872374732
Format: Paperback
$25.87

"One of the most gripping serial crimes of all time!!!! In the early 1920s, in Osage County, Oklahoma, members...  Read More >>

Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s

Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s

Author: Emily Stoddard Burnham
ISBN: 9781952143670
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Caught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing...  Read More >>

Disappearng New Mexico: A Photographic Tour of New Mexico's Past

Disappearng New Mexico: A Photographic Tour of New Mexico's...

Author: Mac Read ,  Manfred Laendle
ISBN: 9798218329976
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This book brings New Mexico's history of ghost towns into the twenty-first century. The authors photographed many...  Read More >>

Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers

Border Mills: Lives of Peeblesshire Textile Workers...

Author: Ian MacDougall ,  Caroline Milligan
ISBN: 9781910682517
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Oral history recordings of Peeblesshire textile mill workers taken between 1996 and 2004. Published in association...  Read More >>

Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Detective, Writer of the Wild Frontier

Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo:...

Author: Nathan Ward ,  J Rodney Turner
ISBN: 9798874681067
Format: Audio
$124.05

"Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie Siringo went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades...  Read More >>

Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Detective, Writer of the Wild Frontier

Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo:...

Author: Nathan Ward ,  J Rodney Turner
ISBN: 9798874681074
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie Siringo went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades...  Read More >>

The Nature of Desert Nature: Meditations on the Nature of Deserts

The Nature of Desert Nature: Meditations on the Nature...

Author: Gary Paul Nabhan ,  Gary Paul Nabhan
ISBN: 9798874641962
Format: Audio
$110.85

"In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional...  Read More >>

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the...

Author: Sara A H Butler ,  Tiffany Morgan
ISBN: 9798874682354
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its ""Briarcliff...  Read More >>

The Nature of Desert Nature: Meditations on the Nature of Deserts

The Nature of Desert Nature: Meditations on the Nature...

Author: Gary Paul Nabhan ,  Gary Paul Nabhan
ISBN: 9798874641955
Format: Audio
$97.65

"In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional...  Read More >>

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire

Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the...

Author: Sara A H Butler ,  Tiffany Morgan
ISBN: 9798874682361
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its ""Briarcliff...  Read More >>

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

Author: Richard L Miller ,  David Stifel
ISBN: 9798874687670
Format: Audio
$110.85

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success...  Read More >>

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General

Author: Richard L Miller ,  David Stifel
ISBN: 9798874687663
Format: Audio
$124.05

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success...  Read More >>

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention...

Author: John King
ISBN: 9781324020325
Format: Hardback
$49.95

A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building...  Read More >>

River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado (Revised Edition)

River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado...

Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781778401428
Format: Paperback
$32.99

At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers ""both a...  Read More >>

Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club

Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena...

Author: Maja Trochimczyk
ISBN: 9781945938566
Format: Hardback
$369.60

""Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club"" is a 428-page case study of...  Read More >>

Frommer's Washington, D.C. 2024

Frommer's Washington, D.C. 2024

Author: Kaeli Conforti
ISBN: 9781628875874
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Washington, D.C. can be an overwhelming destination for visitors. With so many museums, so many historic sights,...  Read More >>

Heartland Heartbeats: A Country Heritage Story Collection

Heartland Heartbeats: A Country Heritage Story Collection...

Author: Beth Gibbons
ISBN: 9798887754956
Format: Hardback
$60.69

Heartland Heartbeats is a compilation of short essays about country living - from ancestors moving to Nebraska to...  Read More >>

Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India

Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial...

Author: Gita V. Pai (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
ISBN: 9781009150156
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The book re-examines how we collectively imagine relationships between culture defined broadly and the roles of...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Ironbridge Gorge in 20 Digs

The Archaeology of Ironbridge Gorge in 20 Digs

Author: Michael Nevell
ISBN: 9781398111561
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Published with the blessing and full cooperation of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, this book explores the archaeology...  Read More >>

Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South

Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late...

Author: Keira V. Williams
ISBN: 9780820365572
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Scholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots...  Read More >>

California: An American History

California: An American History

Author: John Mack Faragher
ISBN: 9780300274233
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Backstage Pass: Stories From Thirty Years of the Auckland Theatre Company

Backstage Pass: Stories From Thirty Years of the Auckland...

Author: Frances Walsh
ISBN: 9781927158418
Format: Paperback
$42.00

A lively and entertaining look at the Auckland Theatre Company - its people, its shows, the backstage crew, the...  Read More >>

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