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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
Nancy Isenberg - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy.Until now, no one has properly dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth (father and son) presidents. John and John... |
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WHATEVER NEXT? : lessons from an unexpected life
NOT AVAILABLE. - HACHETTE BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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Bracing honesty, rare insight, and hilarious revelations from the author of the smash-hit New York Times bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping... |
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Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now
Antony Gormley
Format: Hardcover
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Pairing one of the world's greatest sculptors with one of today's greatest writers on art, Shaping the World tells the story of human culture from prehistory to the present through the medium of sculpture.Practiced by every culture throughout the history of the world, sculpture... |
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The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Richard Panek - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds, and cultures, and tracing our millennia-long efforts to unravel its secrets - from Aristotelian philosophy to Newton's apple to the recent, groundbreaking... |
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differencesSuperior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream... |
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Alex Kershaw - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried... |
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