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Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
Mike Thomson - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege.Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged... |
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What's Your Zip Code Story?: Understanding and Overcoming Class Bias in the Workplace
C J Gross - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Shedding light on class division, this book offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion... |
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You're Paid What You're Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
Jake Rosenfeld - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job, with the precise level determined by your performance, then you're paid market value. And who can question something as objective and impersonal as the market? That, at least, is how many... |
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Harold Innis's history of communications paper and printing - antiquity to early modernity
William Buxton - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible,... |
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
TED GENOWAYS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in York County,... |
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Thunderstruck
Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication... |
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about... |
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How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
Terry Virts - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, How to Astronaut is a book that will appeal to anyone - male or female, young or old - with even a passing interest in space. Written by Col. Terry Virts, a former astronaut, space shuttle... |
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
Markiyan Kamysh - Astra House
Format: Hardcover
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Like a real-life trainspotting, a rare portrait of the dystopian reality that is Chornobyl today and the people who call the Exclusion Zone their home.Since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, the area remains a toxic, forbidden wasteland. The zone has become a place for meditation... |
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Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink
Seth M. Siegel - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs... |
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