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Cities in Civilization
Peter Geoffrey Hall
Hardcover, 960 pages
ISBN 0394587324
Pantheon Books
1998
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CATEGORY: History 
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Four-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Jim Haskins brings readers face-to-face with the African Americans who fought in the war between the states. Excerpts from letters and government documents introduce the names and places that set the stage for the war's unfolding. Vintage photographs offer a vivid look at the brave soldiers who risked their lives in the fight for human equality. AUTHOR: James Haskins
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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Using previously neglected archives of firsthand accounts, Dan van der Vat interweaves eyewitness testimony with sharp, analytic narrative in a vivid account of the war in the Pacific. Filled with startling new insights, he examines strategic and political aspects of the war, on both sides and at all levels. 24 pages of photographs. AUTHOR: Dan Van der Vat
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Rise & Fall of the Cleveland Mafia by Rick Porrello
This book explores the rise of the Cleveland Mafia to third in rank after New York City and Chicago. Detailed are the important connections with mega-mobsters like Charles Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, and the Cleveland mob?s move into Las Vegas. Rick Porrello, a veteran of a Cleveland police agency, is a descendant of several of the principals in this book. AUTHOR: Rick Porrello
PUBLISHER: Barricade Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Memory and the Mediterranean - Fernand Braudel by Fernand Braudel, Paule Braudel, Roselyne de Ayala, Sian Reynolds
Fernand Braudel presents a comprehensive history of the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the beginning of the Byzantine empire.
Memory and the Mediterranean
Fernand Braudel (Roselyne de Ayala and Paule Braudel, eds.)
Hardcover, 365 pages
ISBN 0375404260
Knopf
2001
Fernand Braudel presents a comprehensive history of the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the beginning of the Byzantine empire. He focuses on the effects of climate, topography, geology, and oceanography to find the reasons behind the rises and falls of the region's scores of cultures.
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AUTHOR: Fernand Braudel, Paule Braudel, Roselyne de Ayala, Sian Reynolds
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation--and forced the couple into an annulment trial. AUTHOR: Earl Lewis, Heidi Ardizzone
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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