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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Uni…

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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945

A penetrating and compassionate book on the most gigantic military struggle in world history.--The New York Times Book Review

An extraordinary tale... Overy's engrossing book provides extensive detail…

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival research and in-depth reporting.

On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space…

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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union— showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise.

In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the Unite…

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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.From "America's …

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War

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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

April 1970. The glory days of the Apollo space program. NASA send Commander Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon.

Only fifty-five hours into the flight, disaster s…

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Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.

Timothy McVeigh want…

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The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles, #2)

TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN.

For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to g…

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of th…

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