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The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities

The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities

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The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok

The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok

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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)

Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)

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Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain

Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain

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Mohonk Mountain House and Preserve (Images of America)

Mohonk Mountain House and Preserve (Images of America)

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From Whence I Came: The Kennedy Legacy in Ireland and America

From Whence I Came: The Kennedy Legacy in Ireland and America

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All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing

All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing

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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

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Insight into Chinese Culture

Insight into Chinese Culture

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Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. Volume Two: Since 1400

Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. Volume Two: Since 1400

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The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries)

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries)

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Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987

Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987

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Roughing It

Roughing It

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The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater

The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater

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Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

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A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters

A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters

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America's Best Historic Sites: 101 Terrific Places to Take the Family

America's Best Historic Sites: 101 Terrific Places to Take the Family

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Ancient Greece: A Concise History

Ancient Greece: A Concise History

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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

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Elizabeth Virgin Queen

Elizabeth Virgin Queen

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All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army-Navy Game and the War They Fought in Iraq

All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army-Navy Game and the War They Fought in Iraq

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Second Year Sobriety: Getting Comfortable Now That Everything Is Different

Second Year Sobriety: Getting Comfortable Now That Everything Is Different

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Seeing New York: History Walks for Armchair and Footloose Travelers (Critical Perspectives On The P)

Seeing New York: History Walks for Armchair and Footloose Travelers (Critical Perspectives On The P)

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Temple University Press

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The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

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Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement (Rainbow Biography)

Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement (Rainbow Biography)

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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

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More Than Words

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Miles from Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier

Miles from Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier

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More Than Words

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The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

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Life in Nelson's Navy (Bluejacket Books)

Life in Nelson's Navy (Bluejacket Books)

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860 1880

Black Reconstruction in America 1860 1880

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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

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Continuum

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Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives - Public Good - Quality Of Life

Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives - Public Good - Quality Of Life

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Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)

Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)

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Churchill and America

Churchill and America

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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

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Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns (Vintage Original)

Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns (Vintage Original)

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