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Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
Rich Benjamin - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson's account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.. "A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn't... |
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Yoni Appelbaum - Random House Format: Hardcover
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How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?. We take it for granted that good neighborhoods - with good schools and good housing - are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case.. Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where... |
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
Lydia Kang MD - Workman Publishing Company Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up the rigor of actual facts or science... |
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Lyndal Roper - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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In this "extraordinary and brilliant book" (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves) , a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe. The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe... |
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
Julian Baggini - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world - and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.. How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly... |
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Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits
Jenny Draper - Watkins Publishing Format: Hardcover
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In her first book, popular TikTok historian J Draper uses her characteristic wit and intellect to introduce us to extraordinary figures marginalized by history, and the lessons we can learn from them.. Witty and engaging TikTok historian J.D. Draper digs out unusual stories of individuals... |
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Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered
Paul W. Schroeder - Verso Format: Hardcover
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Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacyStealing Horses to Great Applause presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts... |
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