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Silk: A World History
Aarathi Prasad · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial systemshifted from London to New York.... |
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Alan Taylor · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year... |
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Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris
Heather Dune Macadam · Citadel Press
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are hungry for a true account of Nazi Occupied Paris, Star-Crossed is the narrative nonfiction saga they can really sink their teeth into. Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall transport readers to the past and introduce them to our Romeo... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Jennifer Vanderbes · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors. In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
Christina J Faraday
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A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed "lively." This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture - from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations |
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Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire
Ashley Spencer · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first unauthorized look at the inner workings -- and ultimate breakdown -- of the Disney Channel machine . For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney Channel, the most-watched cable channel in primetime at its peak. Today, it might... |
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