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Description not available.Describes the ornate silk robes worn by the Chinese emperors and their courts, discusses the symbolism of the designs embroidered on them, and explains the techniques used AUTHOR: Teresa Coleman
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Boy Genius and the Mogul by Daniel Stashower
The biographer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle here focuses on the early days of the television industry, portraying the drama between David Sarnoff, head of the corporate giant RCA, and a spirited 14-year-old independent researcher named Philo T. Farnswor... AUTHOR: Daniel Stashower
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Old Santa Fe Trail by Marc Simmons, Stanley Vestal
The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday , writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton. AUTHOR: Marc Simmons, Stanley Vestal
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Ancient Mexico by Christine Ronan, Mira Bartok
Five easy-to-do art projects take children on a journey through Mexico's past from Meso-American civilization up to the Aztec Indians, where they learn about these 'People of the Sun.' Children will meet the gods of creation, rain, wind, and sun through myths and stories and will learn to make a calendar disk, pyramid, codex book, ceremonial headdress, and story mural. AUTHOR: Christine Ronan, Mira Bartok
PUBLISHER: Celebration Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | And the Sea is Never Full by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
The second volume of Nobel laureate Wiesel's memoirs recalls his most public years as an activist for Holocaust remembrance and human rights, when he transformed himself from a successful novelist into a moral bulldog, challenging world leaders, including Francois Mitterand and Ronald Reagan, to be more ethically responsible. AUTHOR: Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | When Titans Clashed by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer and sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the German army and shattered Hitler's imperial designs. Told in swift stirring prose, When Titans Clashed provides the first full account of this epic struggle from the Soviet perspective. David Glantz, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and Jonathan House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called the Great Patriotic War . Based on unprecedented access to formerly classified Soviet sources, they counter the German perspective that has dominated previous accounts and radically revise our understanding of the Soviet experience during World War II. AUTHOR: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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