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Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Lynne Cooke - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom it draws... |
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Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History
Mandy Sayer - University of New South Wales Press
Format: Paperback
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Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with... |
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau... |
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Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization
Elena Conis - University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American... |
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
Stephen Alford - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing... |
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The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy
Robert O'Neill - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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American Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer - an in-depth, fearless, and ultimately redemptive account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields... |
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