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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
Robert P. Jones - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.. Beginning with... |
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This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City
Jesse Rifkin - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes from folk to house music.. Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most... |
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Judy Batalion - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters -- a group of unknown heroes whose... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history.Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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Vogue Essentials: Handbags
Carolyn Asome - Conran
Format: Hardcover
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Since its inception more than a century ago, British Vogue has been fascinated by the infinite incarnations of the handbag. From the myriad surrealist creations of Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel to Prada's democratic nylon backpack, from the exclusive Herms Birkin bag to individual vintage... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Charlie English - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to "discover" one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend."A... |
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Kyle T Mays - ?Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early AmericaBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous... |
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