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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Rebecca Romney · Harpercollins Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been... |
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The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
Michael Kulikowski · Harvard University Press Pages: 400 Format: Print book |
The Triumph of Empire takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Michael Kulikowski's history begins with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker · W W Norton Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster Pages: 385 Format: Hardcover |
Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover |
A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich... |
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Adam Alter · Penguin Press Pages: 354 Format: Hardcover |
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction - an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average... |
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Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
Andrew Lownie · St Martin'S Press Pages: 448 Format: Print book |
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies" -- Maclean, Philby, Blunt -- brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.
Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau... |
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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Jim Obergefell · William Morrow Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades - the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court... |
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz · Simon & Schuster Pages: 245 Format: Hardcover |
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be - but aren't - providing.As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest... |
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To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect
Mary Thompson-Jones · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
A former American diplomat reveals a disconnect between Washington policymakers and those who work in US embassies. When the world awoke on November 28, 2010, and read the first of the 251,287 State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday Pages: 437 Format: Print book |
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books Pages: 430 Format: Print book |
A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici. A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition.... |
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
Neil MacGregor · Knopf Publishing Group Pages: 656 Format: Hardcover |
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European... |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild · New Press Pages: 351 Format: Print book |
2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION
A 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016
One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after... |
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Althea McDowell Altemus · The University of Chicago Press Pages: 192 Format: Print book |
Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York... |
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