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Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates#N/A...

In   The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook(1888), Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner give practical and highly opinionated advice to young memsahibs in India. Covering all aspects of household management from the duties of servants to recipes, the manual sheds fascinating light on the entire imperial experience....

A History of War, Weapons, and AggressionO'Connell's vividly written history of weapons in Western culture from prehistoric        times to the nuclear age demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine        the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations        in weapons technology often undercut...

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Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It contains, in the figure of the vicar himself, one of the most harmlessly simply and unsophisticated yet also ironically complex narrators ever to appear in English fiction....

John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....