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Sea Change
In 1952, at age sixteen, Sylvia Earle - then a budding marine biologist - borrowed a friend's copper diving helmet, compressor, and pump and slipped below the waters of a Florida …
Gentleman Soldier
Based on the journal of John Clifford Brown, a veteran of the Philippine-American War, this work reveals the inner workings of a young man seduced by adventure. It covers the US …
Deportation in the Americas
In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb …
Cold War Crossings
Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ …
Of Golden Toads and Serpents' Roads
This volume invites readers to Join a seasoned researcher as he ""goes herping."" After nearly twenty years of traveling around the globe searching for toads, frogs, salamanders, …
Soldier Princess
The beautiful and mysterious Princess Agnes Salm-Salm captivated East Coast society for a decade after 1861. She played a sometimes controversial, often conspicuous, and always …
Tales of a Cold War Submariner
Though Dan Summitt retired from the U.S Navy years ago, he still regrets not receiving clearance to fill a submarine missile tube with thirty-five thousand pounds of wet grits and …
Testimony of a Bosnian
Surrounded by terror and genocide, Naza Tanovic-Miller and her family witnessed starvation, rape and murder during the war in Bosnia and the tense days and nights that led up to …
Gunning for the Red Baron
The daring air aces of World War I faced more than the enemy when they took to the sky - they faced the odds. Their chances of being hit were high; the odds of their hitting the …
Drinking Water
Over the past several years, the safety of public drinking water has often been called into question. Is fluoridated water safe to drink? Is there lead or radon in tap water? …
The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900
Seventy million dollars in fifty-five years. From Texas' annexation in 1845 until the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army pumped at least that much or more into the …
Victory on the Potomac
War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationships among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the …