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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that... |
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You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
Hiawatha Bray - Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: eBook
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The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS - and the consequent decline of privacyWhat does it mean to never get lost? You Are Here examines the rise of our technologically aided era of navigational omniscience - or how we came to know exactly... |
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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
Eckart Frahm - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic... |
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
MAX WALLACE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution." -- Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening... |
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Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
Jake Brennan - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know... |
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