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  • Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

    Series series Life of the Past
    Drawn from a 2005 international symposium, these essays explore current tyrannosaurid current research and discoveries regarding Tyrannosaurus rex.The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, ... Read more

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  • Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business

    How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash

    From the ABC hit show "Shark Tank," this book-filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves-will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book will intersperse words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the book, ... Read more

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  • Henry Eustace McCulloch

    Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies after the Texas Revolution of 1836, defended settlers during the Great Comanche Raid of 1840, and helped to defeat Mexican forces that reoccupied San ... Read more

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  • Anxious Decades

    "Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."—Publishers WeeklyIn the convulsive years between 1920 and 941, Americans were first dazzled by unprecedented economic prosperity and then beset by the worst depression in their history. It was the era of Model T's, rising incomes, scientific management, electricity, talking movies, and advertising techniques that sold a seemingly ... Read more

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  • Citizen Rauh

    An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics

    "Joe Rauh was the type of lawyer who comes along maybe once in a generation---talented, politically astute, effective, and stubbornly devoted to principles, the type of person who not only could but did make a difference. He deserves a biography that explores not only his persona, but the America in which he lived and worked, and how he made a difference to so many people. Michael Parrish has ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Green and Blue

    Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Finalist for the American Battlefield Trust Prize for HistoryDamian Shiels’s Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank-and-file soldiers drawn from across the Union’s armed forces. Using a vast and largely untapped collection of letters penned by Irish American combatants to their families during the war, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Alabamians in Blue

    Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Alabamians in Blue offers an in-depth scholarly examination of Alabama’s black and white Union soldiers and their contributions to the eventual success of the Union army in the western theater. Christopher M. Rein contends that the state’s anti-Confederate residents tendered an important service to the North, primarily by collecting intelligence and protecting logistical infrastructure. He ... Read more

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  • Conflict of Command

    George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fractured Freedoms

    Reconstructing Central Louisiana

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    David T. Ballantyne’s Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural Reconstruction success story, emphasizing the resilience of Black politics and the persistence of significant divisions among white residents ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend

    Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself, who early in the war concluded that he possessed a keen strategic and tactical mind. Noe explores the genesis of this powerful idea and asks why so many ... Read more

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  • The Confederate Resurgence of 1864

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    William Marvel’s The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out during the winter and spring of 1864 that, taken cumulatively, greatly revived white southerners’ hopes for independence. Among the pivotal moments during this period were the sinking of the USS Housatonic by the CSS Hunley; Nathan Bedford Forrest’s defeat of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fabric of Civil War Society

    Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the material culture of America’s bloodiest conflict, offering a deeper understanding of the war and its commemoration.Cox’s analysis traces the influence of sewn materials throughout the Civil War and ... Read more

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