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One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

Dominic Erdozain - Crown
Format: Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms - and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.. More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every...
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Lessons of the Pandemic: Disruption, Innovation, and What Schools Need to Move Forward

David T. Marshall - The Guilford Press
Format: Paperback

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education have been pervasive and profound. This engaging book concisely outlines the current crisis in schools in the core areas of student learning, student and teacher mental health, and teacher burnout. Synthesizing original research, David...
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating...
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A Brief History of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation

Yaroslav Hrytsak - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A "pioneering and fundamental" (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the "creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society" that is contemporary...
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Marion Gibson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through...
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Islam Issa - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

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 of Facts and Trivia: American History

Terri Schlichenmeyer - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback

Entertaining, informative, and fun. Educational, trivial, and profound. Astonishing, amazing, and surprising. That's history! Take a weird and wonderful tour of American history with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts!. From Juan Ponce de León to John Wayne to Jane Doe to the little-known...
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Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

Fiona Maddocks - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian...
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Francesca Peacock - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A biography of the remarkable - and in her time scandalous - seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.. "My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born...
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The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan―History's Most Curious Questions, Answered

Goalhanger Podcasts Ltd - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate--with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major...
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