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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston · Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, The Mirror Test asks that we as a nation look in the mirror and address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working... |
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A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
Gill Paul · Firefly Books Ltd.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Praise for A History of Music in 50 Instruments, also in this series: "Wilkinson's history unfolds like a symphonic work with instrument makers, composers and virtuosic performers picking up these incredible creations and exposing their beauty and capability. To open it up is to be instantly... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command,... |
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Some Slaveholders and Their Slaves, Union Parish, Louisiana, 1839-1865
Harry F. Dill · Heritage Books Inc
Format: Book
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This book is organized into three general sections. The first is an abstract from the 1860 census listing the slaveholders; the second has abstracts of estate and other records concerning slaves; and third and largest section has abstracts of slave convey |
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It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
Gregg Easterbrook · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental... |
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Annette Gordon-Reed · Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson · Doubleday
Pages: 380
Format: Print book
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot,... |
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and behind charismatic... |
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