The book includes a dust jacket. The spine is  fine and there is no highlighting or underlining in the book. The pages have some brown discoloration on the edges. Stories include: The Jungle Book, the second jungle book, just so stories, puck of pook’s hill, captain courageous, Kim, stalky and co., plain tales from the hills, and some short stories

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Texas

A collection of Rudyard Kipling Stories 1982 edition (Illustrated)

The spine has wear and the dust jacket is not included. The pages are clean though

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

American Victorian First Edition

Old America Comes Alive

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

100 years of adventure and discovery

The National Geographic Society 

Carl Sagan

Ann Druyan

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Search for Who We Are

Investigates the origins of human life on Earth, reconstructing the links in the evolutionary chain from the primordial soup to early hominid ancestors

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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An Incomplete Education

Niall Ferguson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The West and the Rest

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower

"A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist

"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal

"[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force." --Boston Globe

Western civilization's rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.

How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or "killer applications"--competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic--that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.

Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Civilization

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Sebastian Junger

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The #1 best-selling author of The Perfect Storm offers an on-the-ground account of a single platoon during its 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

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There is no highlighting or marking within the book. Slight spine tear. 

The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire

The Rising Sun

David E. Duncan

A Savage Quest in the Americas

For the first time, a book that tells the truth about Hernando de Soto's legendary expedition across what would become the United States, where he squandered a fortune in gold won in the conquest of Peru, and drove himself slowly mad searching for a second Inca empire. Maps and line drawings.

Hernando de Soto

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The Gulag Archipelago 1974 first edition

Ron Chernow

Former library book. No highlighting or markings within the book

The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The author draws on Rockefeller's own papers to provide a biography of the legendary oilman, capitalist, and philanthropist

Titan

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Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Collection of magazine from 2020 to 2022

Lawrence M. Kruass

Ex-library. There is no underlining or highlighting within the book. 

Richard Feynman's Life in Science

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits. An immensely colorful persona in and out of the office, Feynman revolutionized our understanding of nature amid a turbulent life. Krauss presents that life--from the death of Feynman's childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon--as seen through the science, providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions. An accessible reflection on the issues that drive physics today, Quantum Man captures the story of a man who was willing to break all the rules to tame a theory that broke all the rules.

Quantam Man

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The spine has wear, but the pages are clean. There are a few pencil markings within the book. 

The Worlds Best Jokes 1941 edition

A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics

The Last Days of the Third Reich

Henry James

This complex tale of self-discovery -- considered by the author to be his best work -- traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.

The Ambassadors

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Charles Robert Darwin

Patricia Horan

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street." Yet, after reading it, Darwin's friend and colleague T. H. Huxley had a different reaction: "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that." Based largely on Darwin's experience as a naturalist while on a five-year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of evolution and natural selection that challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the immutability of species. A landmark con- tribution to philosophical and scientific thought, this edition also includes an introductory historical sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text. Charles Darwin grew up considered, by his own account, "a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." A quirk of fate kept him from the career his father had deemed appro- priate--that of a country parson--when a botanist recommended Darwin for an appointment as a naturalist aboard H.M.S. Beagle from 1831 to 1836. Darwin is also the author of the five-volume work Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle (1839) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Origin of Species

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Strangers on a Bridge 1964 edition

Bill Bryson

A Guide for Occupants

"From the bestselling author of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body"--

The Body

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The Man and the Era

Capone

David Fraser

The Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

An in-depth biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel written with the cooperation of Rommel's son, by a renowned military analyst and historian who is himself a general. (Amazon).

Knight's Cross

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Hugh Thomas

The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

He confronts the thorny subject of Jewish involvement in the slave trade, documents the fact that many of the New England whaling captains became successful slavers on the side, and tells the story of the rising tide of the antislavery movement, first against the trade and then against the institution of slavery itself.

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