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First to Fly

By James Tobin

Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

By Jo Marchant

Combat: The Civil War

By Don Congdon

Combat Uniforms of the Civil War

By Mark Lloyd, Michael Codd

A Very Brief History of Eternity

By Carlos Eire

Intentional Community: An Anthropological Perspective

By Susan Love Brown

Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature

By David Kraemer (Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By Anna Harriette Leonowens

The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

By Judith Flanders

The Story of Wine

By Hugh Johnson, Margaret Rand

Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By James Fairbairn, Laurence Butters

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

By Elizabeth F. Thompson

The Politics of Suffering: Syria's Palestinian Refugee Camps

By Nell Gabiam

Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

By Michael J. Pfeifer, Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo

Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon

By Lucia Volk

Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

By Bedross Der Matossian

Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward

By Kenneth M. Pollack, Raad Alkadiri, J. Scott Carpenter

Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam

By Lev E. Weitz

The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey

By Perin Gurel

Everyday Life of the North American Indians

By Jon Manchip White

Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust

By Samuel P. King, Randall W. Roth

Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States

By D.C. Hammack

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer

Post-Saddam Iraq: New Realities, Old Identities, Changing Patterns

By Amnon Cohen, Noga Efrati

France: An Adventure History

By Graham Robb

Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941

By James F. Goode

Africa Now: People, Policies and Institutions

By Stephen Ellis

Arab-Israeli Diplomacy under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians

By Jorgen Jensehaugen