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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Natalie Dykstra - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid and masterful story ofIsabella Stewart Gardner - creator of one of America's most stunning museums - an American originalwhose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum,and the artshe collected.
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama... |
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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
Jeremy Eichler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR * Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction * A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past * SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR . In 1785, when the great... |
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
Laine Nooney - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing origin story for the personal computer - showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance. Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry... |
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Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
Patti Davis - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents.Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly... |
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Islam Issa - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.. Islam Issa's father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary... |
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
Andrew Pettegree - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century - both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath - one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed... |
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Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America's Techno-Spy Empire
Kristie Macrakis - Georgetown University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening account of the perils of America's techno-spy empire. Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control... |
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