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Donald Cann
Boston Harbor (MA) (Postcard History Series)
Postcard publishers had plenty to work with in the Boston area at the beginning of the 20th century, the heyday of the American postcard. The Boston Harbor Islands offered romantic scenery with their stunning natural features, historic lighthouses, and majestic coastal artillery forts. Picturesque s...
$18.12
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Sherman Billingsley
The Stork Club Cookbook and Bar Book: Throw A Stork Club Party (Excelsior Editions)
Relive the glory days of New York's poshest night spot with recipes and drinks you can prepare at your own home! In its heyday, The Stork Club was the "place to be seen" among New York's glitterati. Gossip columnist Walter Winchell held the corner table, recording the comings and goings of the bri...
$15.30
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Patrick Reusse
Tales from the Minnesota Sports Beat: A Lifetime on Deadline
Memories and stories from more than half a century of writing, reporting, and ranting by a Minnesota sports icon. Minneapolis Star Tribune senior columnist Patrick Reusse is a legendary fixture in Minnesota sports. Like his late colleague Sid Hartman, he is known by his legion of fans (and those...
$10.21
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Brian Cogan Ph.D
Baby Boomers and Popular Culture: An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation
The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were y...
$40.00
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Allen Dieterich-Ward
Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area na...
$28.95
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Rian Hughes
Custom Lettering of the 20s and 30s
This unique publication collects over 4,500 examples of custom lettering from the heyday of Art Deco and the experimental modernity of the Futurists&;from geometric sans, elegant brush scripts, and heavy industrial serifs to hand-drawn eccentricities and outré display type. A cornerstone of any typ...
$45.00
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Marc Hartzman
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and "human torso" Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine ...
$34.65
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Dean Torrence
Surf City: The Jan and Dean Story
The Jan and Dean Story is a personal story of the iconic musician and entrepreneur Dean Torrence. As a memoir The Jan and Dean Story has elements of humor, tragedy and redemption. It tells their story from the early high school friendship struck up between Jan Berry and Dean Torrence and their as...
$17.95
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Matthew Flaming
The Kingdom of Ohio
An incredibly original, intelligent novel?a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan. After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the hi...
$16.00
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Jennifer J Richardson
Olmsted's Linear Park (Images of America)
In 1892, entrepreneur Joel Hurt invited Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. to Atlanta to design an ideal suburb. Olmsted and his firm began designs and were in regular communication with Hurt. Members of the firm came to Atlanta during design and construction. Even with changing ownership, Olmsted's vision a...
$19.65
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Jaya Saxena
The Book of Lost Recipes: The Best Signature Dishes From Historic Restaurants Rediscovered
Enjoy Celebrated Recipes from Top Hotels and Restaurants of Their Era Discover amazing signature recipes lost to time from the most fashionable hotels and restaurants of bygone times. Part vintage nostalgia, part history tour, but all great food, the recipes―often inseparable from their legendar...
$11.49
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Pasha M. Khan
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" ( qissah )―tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. U...
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Daylight Sales
Daylight Sales Bessemer and Lake Erie Authentic Railroad Sweatshirt [48]
9-ounce soft fleece Air jet yarn for a soft, pill-resistant finish Coverseamed crewneck, arm seams and waistband Rib knit in collar, cuffs and waistband Set-in sleeves Here is a modern tribute to the mighty coal hauler that supplied the mills of Pittsburgh throughout the heyday of the American Steel...
$29.99
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Hourly History
Elijah Muhammad: A Life from Beginning to End
Discover the remarkable life of Elijah Muhammad... Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad became famous for his popularization of an Afrocentric branch of Islam. In later years, however, the movement came under fire after critics pointed out that its ideology had very little to do with the mainstre...
$9.99
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Andrew J. Butrica
Single Stage to Orbit: Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry (New Series in NASA History)
Winner of the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis given by the National Council on Public History While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama―t...
$53.95
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Albert J Montesi
St. Louis Union Station
When St. Louis' Union Station opened to the public in 1894, nearly 10,000 people gathered to celebrate. What they saw rivaled famed stations in the East, with its barrel-vaulted ceiling, sweeping archways, and Tiffany stained-glass windows. Modeled after the walled city of Carcassone, France, Union ...
$27.80
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Neal Preston
Queen: The Neal Preston Photographs
The official book on Queen, one of the greatest ever rock bands, photographed by one of the greatest ever rock photographers―with text by Brian May and Roger Taylor and intimate accounts from Neal Preston revealing the stories behind the pictures Neal Preston is one of the most prolific and highly...
$38.43
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Bill Landis
Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased ...
$22.95
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James Gustave Speth
Angels by the River: A Memoir
Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River , James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the syst...
$25.33
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Alan Watts
The Collected Letters of Alan Watts
Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings....
$22.47
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