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Sacred Soldier: The Dangers of Worshiping Warriors

Robert F. Keeler - Interlink Books
Format: Paperback

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and military veteran examines both the realities of our military and the worshipful attitude of Americans toward it. . How can our nation stop fighting needless wars, if we keep worshiping the warriors? Why do presidents so easily fool us by using "support...
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Edda L. Fields-Black - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. . Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more...
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Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich

Vincent dePaul Lupiano - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year....
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The Party Crasher: How Jesus Disrupts Politics as Usual and Redeems Our Partisan Divide

Joshua Ryan Butler - Multnomah
Format: Paperback

Discover America's four political religions and why Jesus is crashing them all!. "A must-read for any and all who seek the way of Jesus." - Jay Kim, pastor and author of Analog Christian. The political divide is wider than ever. Each side demands ultimate allegiance that's...
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Living with Agent Orange: Conversations in Postwar Viet Nam (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond)

Diane Niblack Fox - University of Massachusetts Press
Format: Paperback

For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military as a type of chemical warfare. While scientists and politicians continue to debate how to best address its human and environmental consequences,...
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news-breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the costliest...
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

Nijay K. Gupta - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices....
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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People

Noah Feldman - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar...
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human...
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Wild Colts Make the Best Horses: The Intrepid Life of Abigail Adams

Mary Rae Watry Mauch - Xlibris Us
Format: Hardcover

Join an adventure walking in the shoes of Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Many stepping stones along this journey are first-hand accounts of Abigail's correspondence before, during, and after the birth of her nation. Her forthright, knowledgeable...
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