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“I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price we did Bunker Hill,” Nathanael Greene wrote to the governor of Rhode Island after the battle of June 17, 1775.Fought on Breed’s Hill outside Boston, Massachusetts, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved a pyrrhic victory for British forces. Confident in their ability to overwhelm the New England militia that opposed them, long lines of neatly uniformed British infantry and marines swept uphill toward a quickly built earthen redoub...

This vividly detailed Civil War history reveals many of the incredible true stories behind the legendary sites of the Gettysburg battlefield.Having unexpectedly been thrust into command of the Army of the Potomac only three days earlier, General George Gordon Meade was caught by a much harsher surprise when the Confederate Army of North Virginia launched a bold invasion northward. Outside the small college town of Gettysburg, the lead elements of Meade's army were s...

“Lee’s army is really whipped,” Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed.May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predecessors, had not relented in his pounding of the Confederates. The armies clashed in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Courthouse and along the North Anna River. Whenever combat failed to break the Confederates, Grant resorted to maneuver. “I propose to fight it ...

“Utterly absorbing. Nearly every paragraph brings a revelation.”—Bill Bryson • **“Wise, and beautifully written. . . . It will change the way you think about your body and live your life.”****—**Chris van Tulleken • “This great book from a world expert offers practical tips and dispels many myths.”—Tim SpectorA world-renowned scientist offers a much-needed analysis of what it takes to have good immune health—helping readers navigate what ca...

A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The World...

Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery e...

Meet the Crawfords: Brilliant in business, lousy at love.Diana Crawford has been burned by men before. This brooding botanist shuts herself up in her lab and vows never to open her heart again.Asa Wexler is a billionaire. He can buy anything he wants...except the trust of the woman who has bewitched him. Asa rolls into the small town of Oak Creek on business and takes a shovel full of snow to the face. Not even the icy shock can cool his jets, and when Dian...

"A terrific book by a consummate storyteller and scientific expert considers the past and future of the body's ability to fight disease and heal itself." —Adam Rutherford, The GuardianThe immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune system works—and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age, and our s...

Meet the Crawfords: Brilliant in business, lousy at love.Fletcher Crawford is a playboy producer. He flies around the world chasing fast cars and fast women.He’s way too old to still feel hurt by his high school heartbreak, right?One day he scorns the wrong woman and finds himself grounded in his hometown, where he finds Thistle McMurray around every turn.She was his first everything…including his first heartbreak.Thistle McMurray al...

The Compatibility Gene takes readers on a global journey of discovery spanning 60 years, involving scores of scientists, and encompassing the history of transplants and immunology. That journey has revealed astonishing links between who we are as individuals and our never-ceasing struggle to survive disease. Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. The...

Meet the Crawfords: Brilliant in business, lousy at love.Archer Crawford feels like a goof in a family of overachievers. Sure, he’s a successful accountant, but he’s the only accountant in the small town of Oak Creek.He’s also the guy women turn to when they’re looking for something temporary. Like Opal Whittaker, the local midwife.Opal had an itch and thought Archer was just the man to scratch it. No strings. No expectations. Just knocking boots.

He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived.But could he be the only one who never died?“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.”—Suprem...