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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Daniel Light - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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
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«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
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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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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750
Sir Noel Malcolm - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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"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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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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