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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues."Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives uncovered.... |
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Mollie Hemingway · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened and explore... |
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious... |
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Emma Southon · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty -- and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith.In her own time, she was recognized... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society - and in ourselves."The most courageous book to date on the problem... |
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America Is Better Than This: Trump's War Against Migrant Families
Jeff Merkley · Twelve
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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An exposé and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin:... |
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