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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Islam Issa - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.. Islam Issa's father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary... |
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick Joyce - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.. "What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half,... |
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Jenn M. Jackson - Random House Format: Hardcover
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A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like - from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.. This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.. Jenn M. Jackson, PhD,... |
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
John O'Connor - Sourcebooks Format: Hardcover
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"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot... |
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
Francesca Peacock - W. F. Howes Ltd Format: Hardcover
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A biography of the remarkable - and in her time scandalous - seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.. "My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born... |
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