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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
Shahnaz Habib - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?. The conditions of travel have long been... |
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Cemetery and Gravestone Handbook: For Genealogists and Family Historians
Gary W. Clark - Phototree.com
Format: Paperback
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CEMETERY and GRAVESTONE HANDBOOK looks at a variety of topics that researches find difficult to master. Each and every one can enhance the history and story of your ancestors. The chapters will help you with: - Finding and documenting your ancestors- Getting the most out of cemeteries,... |
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The Deadline: Essays
Jill Lepore - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America's best historians; it's fair to say she's one of its best writers too." -- Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times. Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIME. A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay... |
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Kids Have Questions, Too! What Does the U.S. Constitution Say?
M J Slate - Quill and Tome
Format: Hardcover
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Most people have heard about the U.S. Constitution.
But do you know what it actually says?
What it means for you?
The four pages of the U.S. Constitution shaped history, and it is so important that we understand it.
This book is based on unbiased facts and written in a way kids... |
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
Brooke Kroeger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present. Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's... |
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
Adam Goodheart - David R. Godine, Publisher
Format: Hardcover
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A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island... |
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