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The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Max Blumenthal · Nation Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2,200 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians, including over 500 children. During the assault, at least 10,000... |
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The Histories
Herodotus · Viking
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One of Western history's greatest books springs to life in Tom Holland's vibrant new translation Herodotus of Halicarnassus - who was hailed by Cicero as "the father of history" - wrote his histories around 440 BC. It is the earliest surviving work of nonfiction and a thrilling... |
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Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad
Brian A. Catlos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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"This compelling account of the Crusades era debunks the clash-of-civilizations paradigm in which the period is typically cast... Catlos does not overlook the violence of the period but argues that it was stoked more often by money and power than by religion and ideology." The New Yorker... |
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
Lawrence Millman · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 196
Format: eBook |
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At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful... |
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Matt Taibbi · Random House Publishing Group 2017.
Pages: 352
Format: eBook |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt... |
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The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
Peter Baldwin · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Today’s copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley,... |
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The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War
Jeffrey E Stern · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 325
Format: Print book |
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There, a few thousand students are learning not just to read and write and add, but to question, criticize, make provocative art. To sing, poke fun at one another, to protest. The Teacher named the school "Marefat" because it means "knowledge" but also all its derivatives:... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage
Format: Paperback |
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
Uri Bar-Joseph · Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 372
Format: Print book |
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A gripping feat of reportage that exposes - for the first time in English - the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East.As the son-in-law of Egyptian... |
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Beacon Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing... |
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Caroline Moorehead · Harper; First U.S. First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains... |
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Sixteen for '16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America
Salvatore Babones · Policy Press
Format: Print book |
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The election of the next US president is upon us, and with established politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush poised to be key players, the campaigns seem destined to be as contentious, as ugly, and as seemingly removed from the reality of American lives as ever. In Sixteen for 16, Salvatore... |
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Bringing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels
Andrei Netto · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover |
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In February 2011, Andrei Netto, a reporter for O Estado de São Paulo , one of Brazil's main newspapers, traveled without permission into a region of Libya controlled by the regime, aiming to cover the first armed revolution of the Arab Spring. One of the first foreigners to reveal... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine · Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Including contributions by W. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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