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Description not available.Presents an introduction to the geography, history, people, and customs of Singapore. AUTHOR: Matt Thomas
PUBLISHER: Child's World, Incorporated, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Route 66 by Michael Wallis
Description not available.Updated and revised to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of this American icon, a fascinating social history of Route 66, which spurred a revival of the dying American road, evokes the magic of the people and landscapes that surround it. Reprint. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Michael Wallis
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Seeing Is Believing by Peter Biskind
Description not available.A new edition of a classic study of the films of the 1950s discusses how these movies reflect the social and political topography of their time, showing how works like Giant and Rebel Without a Cause offer insights into ongoing debates about the nature of America. Reprint. AUTHOR: Peter Biskind
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Toxic Terror by Jonathan B. Tucker
TOXIC TERROR provides in depth case studies of twelve terrorist groups and individuals who, from 1946 to 1998, allegedly acquired or employed CBW agents. The cases were researched from primary sources, including court documents, interviews, and declassified government files. By comparing the twelve cases, the book identifies characteristic motivations and patterns of behavior associated with CBW terrorism and provides an empirical basis for prudent, cost effective strategies of prevention and response. AUTHOR: Jonathan B. Tucker
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Resurrection: The Struggle For A New Russia
For a complete description of this product, please click the product image.A portrait of post-Communist Russia, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LENIN'S TOMB. Beginning with the siege of Parliament that took place during the abortive coup of 1991, Remnick describes the stunningly rapid process by which Communist control of Russian society and politics collapsed, and the long and painful struggle to find an alternative source of authority that followed.
CATEGORY: History
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 | Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. AUTHOR: Gordon S. Wood
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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