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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition Thus edition |
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe’s most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn’t Europe’s most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums... |
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Prickly Pears of Palestine: The People Behind the Politics
Hilda Reilly · Eye Books; 2nd Revised edition edition |
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An account providing a human face to the realities of life in Palestine The Palestinian–Israeli conflict is one of the most widely reported and long standing struggles in the world, yet for many, misunderstanding is rife about its most basic issues. Hilda Reilly... |
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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Vikram Chandra · Graywolf Press |
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The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work... |
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Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse
Robin Hutton · Regnery History |
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New York Times Bestseller!From the racetrack to the battlefield—dauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fi—she was Reckless, "pride of the Marines."A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named... |
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One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
Bing West · Random House |
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Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon... |
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