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Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal
Matthew Hart · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the lost empires of the Sahara to today’s frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by Matthew Hart, the award-winning author of Diamond In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold skyrocketed—in three years more... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel
Cathy Scott-Clark · Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive... |
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The Classical Tradition
Anthony Grafton · Belknap Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range... |
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation’s signature means of “instant” communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen... |
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The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Thomas L. Dyja · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of the year and Chicago Tribune Best Book of Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago Before air travel overtook trains nearly... |
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
David Graeber · Spiegel & Grau; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution that... |
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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Dave Barry · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 229
Format: Print book
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A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry... |
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