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A history and guide to modern Tibet, written on the basis of the author`s extensive travels in that country. Erickson, a journalist who has taught in Uganda and covered much of Latin America, attempts to explain the myriad complexities of contemporary Tibet in light of its history since the Chinese Cultural Revolution. AUTHOR: Barbara Erickson
PUBLISHER: Pacific View Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Mobile Guerrilla Force by Francis Kelly, James C. Donahue
James C. Donahue, a member of Operation Blackjack-31, chronicles the treacherous trek through War Zone D by 13 handpicked Green Berets who infiltrated the VC's secret zone and provided just how far determination can go. Photo insert. AUTHOR: Francis Kelly, James C. Donahue
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Indian Heritage of America by Alvin M. Josephy
From the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age to the American Indian of the 20th century, this book encompasses the whole historical and cultural range of Indian life in Corth, Central, and South America. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. AUTHOR: Alvin M. Josephy
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Dragonfly
...for the first time, the American astronauts who journeyed to Mir speak out bluntly about the failings of the program, from the rigors of training at Russia's Star City military base to the slapdash experiments they were required to perform in space.
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the cosmonauts, astronauts, Russian and American ground controllers, psychologists, and scientists involved, Dragonfly is the saga of a mission as fraught with political and bureaucratic intrigues as any Washington potboiler. Using never-before-released internal NASA memoranda, flight logs, and debriefings, Burrough vividly portrays an American space program in which many astronauts refuse to raise safety concerns for fear they will be frozen out of future missions. It offers an unprecedented look inside the rattletrap Russian space program, where the desperate thirst for hard currency leads to safety shortcuts and exhausted, puppetlike cosmonauts endure truly inhuman pressures from their unfeeling, all-powerful masters on the ground. In Dragonfly, for the first time, the American astronauts who journeyed to Mir speak out bluntly about the failings of the program, from the rigors of training at Russia's Star City military base to the slapdash experiments they were required to perform in space. Yet through it all the men and women of the Russian and American programs persevered, forging friendships that will serve them well as the two countries prepare for the first launches of the International Space Station in late 1998. Theirs is a classic story of a triumph over adversity, destined to be one of the most enduring and widely celebrated adventure stories of our time.
CATEGORY: History
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 | Combat Chaplain by Claude D. Newby
Description not available.Complemented by an eight-page photo insert, this powerful story of the Vietnam War offers the personal story of a military chaplain who became one of the most decorated heroes of the conflict, describing his experiences with the soldiers of the First Calvalry. Originally published as It Took Heroes. Reprint. AUTHOR: Claude D. Newby
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Lewis and Clark Trail by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Description not available.Offers a look at how west of the Mississippi River has changed in the past two hundred years from the time it was completely unknown to Europeans at the start of Lewis and Clark?s expedition in May 1804 to what it has become today. AUTHOR: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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