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Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Roger D. Launius - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group... |
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
David J. Dennis Jr.
Format: Hardcover
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"The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning."... |
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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
Jonathan Healey - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern worldThe seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended... |
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The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
William Hogeland - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander." -- J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards UtopiaHow Alexander Hamilton... |
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Breaking and Entering: Getting Caught in the Act: From Auditions to Agents to a Career
Philip Carlson - Opus Books
Format: Print book
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(Book) . Philip Carlson was the first agent to sign Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Liev Schreiber, Claire Danes, Idris Elba, Kyra Sedgwick, Adrien Grenier and Paul Giamatti. He has represented Viola Davis, Kathy Bates, Brian Dennehy, and W.H. Macy among many and gifted others. He shares... |
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Paul Krugman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better... |
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Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
Elizabeth L. Block - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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How wealthy American women--as consumers and as influencers--helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.French fashion of the late nineteenth century is known for its allure, its ineffable chic--think of John Singer Sargent's Madame X and her scandalously... |
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The Baseball 100
Joe Posnanski - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An instant classic of baseball literature and a must-read for any fan, The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's... |
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1946: The Making of the Modern World
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire comes a powerful, revelatory book about the year that would signal the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry... |
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