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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield · Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks What does your favorite font say about you Fonts surround us every day on street signs and buildings on movie posters and books and on just about every product we buy But where do fonts come from and why do we need... |
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The Gun
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. It is so light it can be used by children. It has transformed the way we fight wars, and its story is the chilling story of modern warfare. C. J. Chivers' extraordinary new book tells an alternative... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America.
The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational... |
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The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
Marwan Bishara · Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”, combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this... |
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
William Dalrymple · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the Wests greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With... |
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Churchill's First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans
Con Coughlin · Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 298
Format: Print book
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Churchill's First War by Con Coughlin is a fascinating account of Winston Churchill's early military career fighting in the 1890 Afghan campaign, offering fresh and revealing parallels into today's war in AfghanistanJust over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious... |
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George Washington: The Crossing
Jack E. Levin · Threshold Editions; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1 New York Times bestselling book for many weeks, Jack Levin presents a beautifully designed account of George Washingtons historic crossing of the Delaware River and the decisive Battle of Trenton, with a foreword by his son, 1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark... |
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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Ira Berlin · Harvard University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation,... |
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson · Pantheon Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing... |
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Eyewitness gettysburg.
Rod Gragg · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Book
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One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. "Eyewitness Gettysburg" gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Hedi Fried · Scribe US
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where she and her sister were forced into... |
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