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The Pittsburgh region, while well known for steelmaking, was likewise an important glass manufacturing center in this country's history. This book provides detailed accounts of the region's glassmakers from the first factory dating to 1795 through 1910. Glassmaking started out modestly with small gl... More

The Pittsburgh region, while well known for steelmaking, was likewise an important glass manufacturing center in this country's history. This book provides detailed accounts of the region's glassmakers from the first factory dating to 1795 through 1910. Glassmaking started out modestly with small gl... More

Large Format for easy reading. The journals recording two catastrophically ill-prepared expeditions of exploration in North-West and Western Australia. In the first, wrecked, almost drowned and completely lost and with Grey wounded in a skirmish with Aborigines, they traced the course of the Glenelg... More

A vast amount of literature has emerged on the First World War and its repercussions since the Armistice. Two leading historians therefore present this comparative analysis of the ways in which the history has been written and interpreted. Identifying three generations of historians, literary schola... More

The bestselling author of "April 1865" and one of the most renowned and gifted historians returns with an epic, stunningly original portrait of the tumultuous years--1788-1800--that made the modern world.It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink... More

This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through 30 tumultuous days at the end of the Civil War, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate. 16-page insert.One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last... More

With her Total Life Changes, delicious recipes, spa secrets, and inspiring stories of people who have made dramatic changes in their lives, the fitness trainer to the stars helps readers start now--for a lean and healthy body for the rest of their lives. Line drawings throughout.With a glut of healt... More

This original book focuses on some of the 20th-century's "minor utopias" whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an ... More

This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the nee... More

SAILS ON THE HORIZONDientes de Diablo, 1797 With his first historical high-seas adventure chronicling the exploits of Naval Commander Charles Edgemont, Jay Worrall sets sail in the rousing tradition of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian.The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive w... More