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AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
Shirley Neal - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Illustrated with more than 100 color and black-and-white photos, a rich celebration linking the vibrancy of Black identity and expression with mainstream popular culture from the past to the present.The top memes, movements, and milestone moments dominating today's social media have... |
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Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
Jerry Brotton - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millenniaNorth, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal directions... |
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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the Italian Campaign in a masterful volume that brings new awareness to this vital hinge point of the warAs the new year of 1944 began in Italy, the Allied army's momentum had ground to a halt... |
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Daniel Light - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth.Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America... |
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Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past
Jim Leary - Icon Books
Format: Paperback
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'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS. 'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS. 'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG. 'A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK PAPERS.... |
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American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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"James Patterson's American Heroes is a compelling work of nonfiction that should not be missed. A riveting chronicle of valor, humanity, and sacrifice, the diverse stories within the book's pages represent the very threads that hold our flag together." - Mark Greaney,... |
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States . "Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough excavation of the painful history that gave rise to rigid enrollment policies is a courageous gift to our understanding... |
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