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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein · Doubleday
Pages: 349
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Michael A Cohen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic... |
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving... |
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
Peter H Wilson · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book |
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy... |
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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Joel Simon · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers Online surveillance is annihilating privacy and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time Joel Simon the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists warns that we can no longer assume that... |
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Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
Alexandra Witze · Pegasus Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland's most fearsome volcanoes.Laki is Iceland's largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783... |
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Plucked: A History of Hair Removal
Rebecca Herzig · NYU Press
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From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to remove hair deemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. This is true especially for women... |
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