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It's Up to the Women

Eleanor Roosevelt · Nation Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking...
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It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

Gregg Easterbrook · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental...
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Red Army Resurgent (World War II)

John Shaw · Time-Life Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Ann Shen · Chronicle Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were...
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Black Power 50

Sylviane A Diouf · The New Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies...
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Graham Hancock · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest...
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper

LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO · Greenhill Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler...
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

John Naughton · Quercus
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities...
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The General's Niece: The Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France

Paige Bowers · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Geneviève de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier, Geneviève's...
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The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln

Sidney Blumenthal · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave,"...
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This Day in Presidential History

PAUL BRANDUS · Bernan Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

For reference librarians, journalists, social media managers, history buffs, and more, a treasure trove of information about the US presidency for each day of the year from the popular, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus. The Atlantic calls Brandus "one of the top Washington...
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War

Robert L. O'Connell · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American...
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Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict

William Harris · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting conflict involving many different parties and phases....
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Pamela D. Toler · Beacon Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns...
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,...
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