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Ongoing coverage for an ongoing crisis. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Financial Crisis is being written this very moment as the crisis continues to unfold. Part Three in this ongoing series…
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STATES, AUTOS, & CONSUMERS

By Tom Gorman, MBA DK Publishing, December 2025 ISBN: 9781101145975 History, Reference Language: English
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Ongoing coverage for an ongoing crisis. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Financial Crisis is being written this very moment as the crisis continues to unfold. Part Three in this ongoing series…
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STATES, AUTOS, & CONSUMERS

By Tom Gorman, MBA Penguin Group US, December 2025 ISBN: 9781101145975 History, Reference Language: English
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From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home…
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At Home: Special Illustrated Edition - A Short History of Private Life

By Bill Bryson ( 24990 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, October 2013 ISBN: 9780385537292 Cultural Studies, Popular Culture Language: English

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A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work…
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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

By Claudia Stein, Roger Cooter Yale University Press, June 2013 ISBN: 9780300189438 Reference, Historiography Language: English
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's…
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The Hedgehog and the Fox - An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Second Edition)

By Isaiah Berlin ( 299 customer ratings) Princeton University Press, June 2013 ISBN: 9781400846634 European, Eastern European Language: English
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Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but…
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On Historical Distance

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C By Mark Salber Phillips Yale University Press, May 2013 ISBN: 9780300195255 History, Renaissance Language: English
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The Rhine River represented the last natural defensive barrier for the Third Reich in the fall of 1944. Although Hitler had been reluctant to allow the construction of tactical defense lines in…
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Defense of the Rhine 1944-45

By Steven Zaloga, Adam Hook Osprey Publishing, May 2013 ISBN: 9781472803795 History, Reference Language: English
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By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) had dragged on for almost six years and the outcome still hung in the balance. When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his…
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Guilford Courthouse 1781 - Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory

By Angus Konstam, Adam Hook ( 6 customer ratings) Osprey Publishing, May 2013 ISBN: 9781472803986 History, Military Language: English
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The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. The…
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English Civil War Fortifications 1642-51

By Peter Harrington, Donato Spedaliere Osprey Publishing, May 2013 ISBN: 9781472803979 History, Military Language: English
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In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defense to protect England and its newly Protestant Church. Anticipating a foreign onslaught from Catholic Europe after…
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The Castles of Henry VIII

By Peter Harrington, Brian Delf Osprey Publishing, May 2013 ISBN: 9781472803801 History, Modern Language: English
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