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Terrorism on American Soil by Joseph T. McCann (Hardcover - Sentient Pubns)
 

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Terrorism on American Soil by Joseph T. McCann (Hardcover - Sentient Pubns)
An accessible chronicle of terrorist attacks that have taken place in America places each event in a historical, legal, and psychological context to enable readers to connect local events to the broader global arena.

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Tycoon's War by Stephen Dando-Collins (Hardcover - Da Capo Pr)
 

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Tycoon's War by Stephen Dando-Collins (Hardcover - Da Capo Pr)
Recounts how, after having nearly lost his incredible fortune due to William Walker's conquest of Central America, Cornelius Vanderbilt kicked off a bloody war involving seven countries to regain the helm of his powerful shipping business in that region.

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Undercover Washington by Pamela Kessler (Paperback - Capital Books Inc)
 

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Undercover Washington by Pamela Kessler (Paperback - Capital Books Inc)
Offers a guided tour through Washington, D. C. and nearby Virginia and Maryland leads to more than seventy dropsites, safehouses, graveyards, mansions, museums, secure government offices, and restaurant rendezvous where the spy game has been played, from George Washington through today's war on terrorism.

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America's Famous and Historic Trees by Jeffrey G. Meyer (Hardcover - Illustrated)
 

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America's Famous and Historic Trees by Jeffrey G. Meyer (Hardcover - Illustrated)
Like many residents of Jacksonville, Florida, the Jeffrey Meyers family liked to picnic under the city's magnificent Treaty Live Oak. When their toddler handed them an acorn from the tree, Meyers, a nurseryman, planted it in their back yard.
That acorn was the inspiration for an immensely popular project, America's Famous & Historic Trees, sponsored by American Forests, the country's oldest nonprofit conservation organization. Through this program, Meyers and his volunteers have collected seeds from more than a thousand different historic trees, which are grown to sapling size in the project's nursery. The descendants of these famous trees have been planted on the grounds of state capitols, in schoolyards, and in back yards across the country.
In this fascinating book, Meyers tells the stories of seventeen historic trees, describes their role in America's history, and tells how their seeds were collected and their offspring propagated. For readers who want to grow a replica of an important tree themselves, each chapter contains instructions for planting the seeds of that particular species.
Among the trees in this book are the Indian Marker Pecan, dating back to the 1600s, when Comanche warriers would mark a good camping spot by tying a young pecan tree to the ground. At the other end of the time line is the Moon Sycamore, grown from seeds that traveled to the moon in 1971 on Apollo 14.
Trees associated with presidents are George Washington's Tulip Poplar, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Honey Locust, Andrew Jackson's Southern Magnolia (planted at the White House in memory of his wife), and John F. Kennedy's Post Oak, which grows beside his grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Most of the original trees still stand, but in some cases all that remains of their place in history are the seeds propagated by Meyers and his group. These include the last Johnny Appleseed Rambo Apple tree and the last Lewis and Clark Cottonwood.

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Stork Club by Ralph Blumenthal (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Stork Club by Ralph Blumenthal (Paperback - Reprint)
An inside story of the Stork Club, one of New York's most glamorous clubs reveals its hidden underworld connections, from its founding during the speakeasy era through the height of its popularity in the 1960s.

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The Frigate Surprise by Geoff Hunt (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
 

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The Frigate Surprise by Geoff Hunt (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
Draws on historical and fictional sources to document the story of the famous ship from Patrick O'Brian's novels, in a fan's visual chronicle that illustrates its design, incorporates specially commissioned images, and offers insight into the key events that shaped its crew's adventures.

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The Sea Hunters II by Clive Cussler (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Sea Hunters II by Clive Cussler (Paperback - Reprint)
Collects the dramatic, true-life accounts of the remarkable underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of NUMA volunteers--a group dedicated to the exploration of historic wrecks--including the tale of the ghost ship Mary Celeste, the Carpathia, and other ships. Reprint.

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The Roman Colosseum by Mann (Hardcover - Mikaya Pr)
 

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The Roman Colosseum by Mann (Hardcover - Mikaya Pr)
Describes the building of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and tells how it was used.

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The Great Pretenders by Jan Bondeson (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Great Pretenders by Jan Bondeson (Paperback - Reprint)
"A guilty pleasure....The Victorian-era courtroom antics alone are worth the price of admission."—Publishers Weekly
Jan Bondeson, M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin reappear among the throngs of pretenders to the throne? And what does DNA testing reveal about the Dauphin's mummified heart? Who was Kaspar Hauser: an abused child, the crown prince of Baden, or a pathological liar? In this highly entertaining work covering the most famous cases of disputed identity, Jan Bondeson uncovers all the evidence, then applies his medical knowledge and logical thinking to ascertain the true stories behind these fascinating histories. 36 illustrations.

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The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles (Paperback - Reprint)
Describes the 1816 sinking of the Medusa, the flagship of a French expedition en route to reclaim a colony in Senegal from the British, which ran aground thanks to the incompetence of the ship's captain, Hugo de Chaumareys, and details the resulting ordeal of its survivors, some of whom escaped in lifeboats, and the others who were forced onto a makeshift raft. Reprint.

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