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Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War
Mike J. Smith · I. B. Tauris
Format: Hardcover
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An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africas biggest nation and worried the world. Yet they remain a mysterious-almost unknowable-organization. Through extensive on-the-ground reporting, Smith takes readers inside the violence... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL · Hill and Wang
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee owners... |
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
John Hylan Heminway · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Stephan Talty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese... |
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Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Andrew Schocket · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source... |
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Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
GEOFFREY WAWRO · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic.... |
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The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
Adam Valen Levinson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Chronically questioning, funny, and bold, a young American explores the majority-Muslim lands that scare him most.Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson sets out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear." From a base in globalized and sterilized... |
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The First World War in 100 Objects
John Hughes-Wilson · Firefly Books
Format: Book
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A powerful visual and narrative treatment of the "war to end all wars". The First World War in 100 Objects draws on the most interesting 100 items that describe the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War. From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters... |
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