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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
Molly Millwood PhD · Harper Wave
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect... |
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Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
J. Samuel Walker · Oxford University Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the Washington Post's Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake... |
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War
Robert L. O'Connell · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American... |
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Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
Matt Stroud · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies adopted by law enforcement have actually made policing worse -- lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatoryAmerican law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality... |
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The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction
Jay Howard Geller · Cornell University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers -- Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal -- weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social history of the Jews in Germany in the decades... |
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
Carson Vaughan · Little A
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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A moving true story of American struggle.Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one - where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity... |
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The Grand Food Bargain: and the Mindless Drive for More
Kevin D. Walker · Island Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system relies on an illusion. It depends on endless abundance, but the planet... |
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