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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrativeFemale circumcision in the 1800s as a respective remedy for misunderstood diseases, prefrontal lobotomies as "cures" for ulcerative colitis in the 1950s, and unreported deaths from initial clinical trials of birth control in Puerto...
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Mary Beard - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book -- against a background of today's "sculpture wars" -- Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits...
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Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru

Charles F. Walker - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire-more widespread and deadlier than the American Revolution. An official collector of tribute for the imperial crown,...
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom

David Hackett Fischer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal...
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.

Robert Jan van Pelt - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover

This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people -- mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others -- lost their lives. More than 280 objects...
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942

William K. Klingaman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following...
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The World's Greatest Religious Leaders

Scott E Hendrix - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

This book provides reliable information about important world religious leaders, correcting the misinformation that can be on the internet. * Examines roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries that detail how religious leaders from different faiths changed the history of the world*...
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National Geographic Almanac 2019: Hot New Science, Fearless Explorers, Epic Adventures. Incredible Photographs

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. - National Geographic
Format: Paperback

A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way.An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key information on science, nature, history, and geography,...
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

Tony Horwitz - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young...
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The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

Akhil Reed Amar
Format: Hardcover


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