Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon
 For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington --- landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and ... [... more]
$40.00
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The American Lawn
Like so many other aspects of modern life-the interstate highway system, fast food chains, telephones, televisions, and shopping malls-the lawn occupies a central, and often unconsidered, place in America's cultural landscape. In spaces as diverse as ... [... more]
$34.95
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and ...
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted ... [... more]
$28.00
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The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
Academic Obsession I thought Ms. Jenkins' historical research was thorough enough (Would you expect less from a Smithsonian publication?), but her book reads like (and quite possibly is) a doctoral dissertation. Don't let the pink and green cover with ... [... more]
$18.95
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Museum of Early American Tools
Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them. Including dozens of pen-and-ink sketches. -- Book Description [... more]
$9.00
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U.S. by the Numbers: Figuring What's Left, Right, and ...
"U.S. by the Numbers" looks at literally hundreds of indicators--taxes, budgets, education, crime, the economy and business, demographic trends, politics and government, the environment, health care, and other societal and lifestyle areas--to ... [... more]
$35.00
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Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from ...
This new book explores the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between Americans' yearning for privacy and their insatiable curiosity. The book describes Puritan monitoring in Colonial New England, then shows how the attitudes of the ... [... more]
$17.50
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Noah Webster: Master of Words (Sowers) (Sowers)
He served his fellow man and country with unselfish devotion. His dictionary speaks for itself. [... more]
$7.99
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Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance ...
The first of its kind, Journey to the Moon details the history and design of the computer that enabled U.S. astronauts to land on the moon. In describing the evolution of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Mr. Hall contends that the development of the Apollo ... [... more]
$58.95
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A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has ...
Does the Information Age predate computers? Does it, in fact, predate the Industrial Age? Though this thesis isn't explicitly examined in A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, ... [... more]
$44.50
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Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed
The rampant illnesses of our society--including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress--are familiar to us all. For the first time, Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these ... [... more]
$36.95
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Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early ...
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$25.00
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