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My Broken Language
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Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction
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The Beauty in Breaking
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Salut!: France Meets Philadelphia
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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
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Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
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Circe
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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
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American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
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3.84 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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3.96 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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The Houses of Louis Kahn
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Heft
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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
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4.28 avg rating — 396 ratings
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A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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3.77 avg rating — 2,666 ratings
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Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
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4.21 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877
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4.16 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Finn
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Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920
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In the Shadow of the Law
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Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
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Philadelphia Murals & Stories They Tell
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Independence Hall in American Memory
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Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting
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The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Luciene Bonaparte and His World
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William L. Price, Arts and Crafts to Modern Design
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About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made
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Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life: 1750-1910
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
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Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
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Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
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Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
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Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1771-1818
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Ancient Egypt
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Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artefacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum
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Car: A Drama of the American Workplace
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
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Tumbling
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Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World
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The Forest
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The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters
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Third and Indiana
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The Costs of Living
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A Judge Uncommon: A Life of John Biggs, Jr.
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Susquehanna, River of Dreams
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The American Pacific: From the Old China Trade to the Present
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The United States of Incompetence
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American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America
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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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Time Journeys: A Search For Cosmic Destiny And Meaning
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A Taste for Treason: A Novel
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The Grotto
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Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality
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Medieval Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 4th Through 14th Century
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English Romanticism: The Human Context
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Secrets of the Cat
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
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Eisenhower at War 1943-1945
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Pat Nixon: The Untold Story
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Handling Sin
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The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life
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Chancing It : Why We Take Risks
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Crime and Madness: The Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
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The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600
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Philadelphians and the China trade, 1784-1844
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The Empress of China
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The Dentist and the Empress: The Adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in Gas-Lit Paris
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E.L.: The Bread Box Papers : The High Life of a Dazzling Victorian Lady/a Biography of Elizabeth Chapman Lawrence
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George Washington's Chinaware
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Voices of Kensington: Vanishing Mills Vanishing Neighborhoods
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Deadlines
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The Captain
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Ringer
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The Chaneysville Incident
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Brotherly Love
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Philadelphia, Patricians and Philistines, 1900-1950
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Charles Willson Peale and His World
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Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign Of France And Germany, 1944-1945
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A Princess in Berlin
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Criminals and Victims: A Trial Judge Reflects on Crime and Punishment
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Churchill: Speaker of the Century
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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
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John Twachtman
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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
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Nurse
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Being seventy: The measure of a year
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A woman of quality
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