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Christianity: A Very Short Introduction

Linda Woodhead · Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Print book

Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, Linda Woodhead provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of Christianity's past and present. Addressing topics including the competition for power between different forms...
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The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

Kenneth Weisbrode · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman's first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant...
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City

Stephen Alford · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.

For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing...

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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Adam Sharr · Oxford University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified) , it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical...
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Charles King · Doubleday
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other...
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Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film

Marc Spitz · It Books
Format: Book

New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that’s embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid...
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Devil's diary.

Robert Wittman · Harpercollins, 2015.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's "chief philosopher" and architect of Nazi ideology - interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors:...

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Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart

JOHN KEAHEY · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A travel narrative that focuses on Sicily's little-known regions, from the author of Seeking Sicily and Hidden Tuscany.From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Tradition, in the form of festivals, the written...
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Timothy C. Winegard · Dutton
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

**The instant New York Times bestseller**
*An international bestseller*

"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPR

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing...
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History of Arab Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots

Aminah Al-Deen · Greenwood
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

This concise reference covers the diverse roots of Arabs in America, tracing the changing face of this community from the 19th century until today.* Helps readers to understand the history, struggles, and contributions of Arab Americans* Explores the history of Arab Americans through...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

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...

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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

REBECCA TRAISTER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability...
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Fifty Weapons That Changed the Course of History

Joel Levy · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully presented guide to 50 weapons and their historical impact on civilization. Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating guide to the arms and armaments that have had the greatest impact on the development of human civilization. Like the other titles...
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

David J Silverman · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks...

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