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Conquest: Julius Caesar's Gallic War
Tarek Ben Yakhlef · Black Panel Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 58 B.C., the Helvetii of Gaul leave their homeland, requesting safe passage through Roman territory. Seizing the opportunity to realize his dream of conquering Celtica, Julius Caesar blocks their passage, launching the Gallic War. Over the next six years, with his famous Tenth Legion... |
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Slaves among Us
Monique Villa · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow, of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking.. Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share... |
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from... |
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Tessa Hulls · MCD
Format: Hardcover
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An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother,... |
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention into the Russian Civil War
Anna Reid · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West. Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most... |
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
Timothy W. Ryback · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse.... |
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Dennis Romano · Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. . No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging... |
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
Volodymyr Ishchenko · Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left's most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when... |
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Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse"
Emily Raboteau · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice -- and what it takes to find shelter. . Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children... |
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Antonia Hylton · Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America's mental healthcare system. . On a cold... |
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