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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering

Daniel Light - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth.Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America...
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El mito de las tres transformaciones [The Myth of the Three Transformations]

Juan Miguel Zunzunegui - Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Format: Paperback

«El que controla el pasado controla el futuro, y el que controla el presente es quien controla el pasado.»George Orwell, 1984La historia no estudia el pasado, lo construye. Toda historia nacional es una mitología, y las mitologías sirven para estructurar la mente de un pueblo. La historia...
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Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell

Jason P. Chambers - University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback

The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertisingOver a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of advertising and revolutionized the industry's approach to African Americans as human beings and consumers. Jason P. Chambers offers a biography...
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American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

Ned Ryun - Encounter Books
Format: Paperback

American Leviathan is the story of the rise of Progressive Statism and their massive, bureaucratic Administrative State at the turn of the 20th century and how we got to where we are today in the 21st century with governmental abuse by a class of so-called experts. Because of Progressives'...
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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

Sir Noel Malcolm - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere,...
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Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

Tim Robey - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history.. "Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag ... ". From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous...
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How to End Christian Nationalism

Amanda Tyler - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

"A potent tool for taking action." --JEMAR TISBY"Read this book and take its lessons to heart." --KRISTIN KOBES DU MEZ"An indispensable tool in renewing civic engagement and democracy." --ANTHEA BUTLER"Timely and insightful." --ROBERT P. JONESThe...
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The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

Michael Tackett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell....
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Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre

Aaron Mahnke - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The new book based on the long-running hit podcast by Aaron Mahnke, which has translated into over 120-million downloads to date, and a monthly average of over 2 million listeners.The podcast, Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with...
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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the Italian Campaign in a masterful volume that brings new awareness to this vital hinge point of the warAs the new year of 1944 began in Italy, the Allied army's momentum had ground to a halt...
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