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Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky · PICADOR USA Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples,... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · Riverhead Books Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought · Oxford University Press Pages: 401 Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S. Wood · Penguin Press Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures,... |
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Bart D Ehrman · Simon & Schuster Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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The "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) , New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster Pages: 896 Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking Pages: 1088 Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
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