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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2018
Sarah Janssen · World Almanac Pages: 1008 Format: Hardcover
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The 150th Anniversary special edition of the best-selling reference book of all time! Larger hardcover format of this essential resource offers larger type sizes and more user-friendly access to thousands of facts.The World Almanac® and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference... |
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The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape
Mark Braude · Penguin Press Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of ElbaIn the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen... |
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Concise World Atlas, 7th Edition
Dk. · Dk Publishing Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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More than 640 high-definition maps created with the latest digital mapping techniques bring you the world in more detail than ever before.Now fully revised and updated to reflect recent geopolitical changes, this essential desktop reference provides a concise but comprehensive overview... |
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin J DiAngelo · Beacon Press Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequalityIn this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Akiko Busch · Penguin Press Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's HOW TO DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed worldIn our increasingly networked... |
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
CHRISTOPHER BONANOS · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive biography of Weegee the Famous -- photographer, psychic, fiend -- from the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself "Weegee," claiming that he functioned... |
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Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
Tony Perrottet · Blue Rider Press Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century's most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara;... |
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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
EDWIDGE DANTICAT · Graywolf Press Pages: 181 Format: Paperback
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A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
KELLY SUNDBERG · Harper Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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"It is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength, grace, generosity and beauty. That's precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence. Sundberg's honesty is astonishing, how she laid so much of herself... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman · William Morrow Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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