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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
John "Chick" Donohue · William Morrow
Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story." - Malachy McCourtSoon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy... |
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Ben Wilson · Doubleday
Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Historian Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning... |
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road.When they descended on Grafton,... |
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Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet
Sandra Goldmark · Island Press
Pages: 216 Format: Hardcover
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Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global... |
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Julius S. Scott · Verso
Pages: 272 Format: Paperback
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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary eraThe Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official... |
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