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How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn - ‎Random House
Format: Hardcover


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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Josie Cox - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

From an experienced financial journalist, Women Money Power is the story of how women have fought for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with...
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How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their...
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Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Katie Gee Salisbury - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

"Enlightening, nuanced, and honest." - Lisa See. Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim...
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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People

Noah Feldman - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar...
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Maureen Callahan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse - the family's generations-long...
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Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre

Aaron Mahnke - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The new book based on the long-running hit podcast by Aaron Mahnke, which has translated into over 120-million downloads to date, and a monthly average of over 2 million listeners.The podcast, Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with...
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No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun

John Stansifer - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.. Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front...
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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero: Paperback Edition

Raeghan Buchanan - Silver Sprocket
Format: Paperback

Delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket. The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero by Buchanan is an illustrated roll-call for punk, post-punk,...
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Kathleen Sheppard - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A new history of Egyptology that prioritizes the women whose contributions, for good and otherwise, shaped the field." - The New York Times. The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork...
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