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  • The American Nation: A History, Vol. 10: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham
    Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin

    The American Nation: A History, Vol. 10: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789

    A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book A Constitutional History of the...
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  • This Land Is Our Land: Myths, Facts, and Mysteries by Rayburn, John
    John Rayburn

    This Land Is Our Land: Myths, Facts, and Mysteries

    Throughout the stories here is information on how places, cities, and states got their names. However, questions arise because Native American tribes of the day didn't yet have a written alphabet, and none of those came along until Sequoyah invented one in 1821, one...
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  • New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever by Elder, Adam
    Adam Elder

    New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever

    In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever.Young, bronzed, and mulletted, they were America's finest athletes in a sport that America loved to hate. Even sportswriters rooted against them....
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  • Looking Back at Changing Times by Rayburn, John
    John Rayburn

    Looking Back at Changing Times

    This is a kind of history, or at least remembrances. It's primarily personal but overall takes a look at the way things were many, many decades ago. Details may get a little out of whack from a chronological order now and then, but the...
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  • Roe: The History of a National Obsession by Ziegler, Mary
    Mary Ziegler

    Roe: The History of a National Obsession

    The leading US expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year historyWhat explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the US Supreme Court decision, which decriminalized abortion in...
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  • Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Heffington, Peggy O'Donnell
    Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

    Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

    A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others...
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  • Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Heffington, Peggy O'Donnell
    Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

    Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

    A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others...
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  • My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching by Crabtree, Mari N.
    Mari N. Crabtree

    My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

    An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its traumaMari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake....
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  • On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction by McPherson, James Alan
    James Alan McPherson

    On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction

    Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard...
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  • Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made by Leebaert, Derek
    Derek Leebaert

    Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made

    Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis.Only four people served at the top echelon of...
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  • Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace by Jackson, Van
    Van Jackson

    Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace

    A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America's paradoxical roleAfter more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear...
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  • Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union; A Personal Journal by Ritter, Scott
    Scott Ritter

    Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union; A Personal Journal

    Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to trust, but verify this successful and unique historic disarmament...
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  • Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union; A Personal Journal by Ritter, Scott
    Scott Ritter

    Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union; A Personal Journal

    Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to trust, but verify this successful and unique historic disarmament...
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  • The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination, and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Schneer, Jonathan
    Jonathan Schneer

    The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination, and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

    During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane thirty-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established...
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  • Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941 by Ronald, Susan
    Susan Ronald

    Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941

    Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes listeners into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.Hitler said, "I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to...
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  • A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dawidziak, Mark
    Mark Dawidziak

    A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October...
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  • The American Nation: A History, Vol. 5: Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689 by McLean Andrews, Charles
    Charles McLean Andrews

    The American Nation: A History, Vol. 5: Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689

    A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsColonial Self-Government, 1652-1689 by Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., Professor of History in Bryn Mawr CollegeNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 5 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell...
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  • The American Nation: A History, Vol. 4: England in America, 1580-1652 by Tyler, Lyon Gardiner
    Lyon Gardiner Tyler

    The American Nation: A History, Vol. 4: England in America, 1580-1652

    A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEngland in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, President of William and Mary College Narrated by Joseph TablerVolume 4 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell...
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  • Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History by Kennedy, Rozella
    Rozella Kennedy

    Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

    Featuring women of color changemakers, risk-takers, and visionaries, artists, scientists, activists, and more, Our Brave Foremothers is a rich collection of short biographies detailing the women's accomplishments, hardships, passions, and joys. Included alongside the stories are inspirational quotes from the women, beautifully detailed artwork...
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  • Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920 - 2020 by Griffith, Elisabeth
    Elisabeth Griffith

    Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

    The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women or even protect the rights of those women who could vote.A century later,...
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  • The No State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Boyarin, Daniel
    Daniel Boyarin

    The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

    A provocative manifesto arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehoodToday there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in...
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  • Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by Haggerty, S. T.
    S. T. Haggerty

    Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio

    In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...
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  • Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity by Woolley, Samuel
    Samuel Woolley

    Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

    An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samuel Woolley argues, social media has democratized propaganda, allowing nearly...
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  • The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Williams, Chad L.
    Chad L. Williams

    The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

    The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I―and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writersWhen W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic...
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  • Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Rutherford, Adam
    Adam Rutherford

    Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

    How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England...
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  • Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Tabor, Nick
    Nick Tabor

    Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

    An epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.In 1860, a ship called the...
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  • The American Nation: A History, Vol. 2: Basis of American History, 1500-1900 by Farrand, Livingston
    Livingston Farrand

    The American Nation: A History, Vol. 2: Basis of American History, 1500-1900

    A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEuropean Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 2 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell...
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  • A Dying Colonialism by Fanon, Frantz
    Frantz Fanon

    A Dying Colonialism

    Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian RevolutionPsychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth...
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  • I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History by Iduma, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Iduma

    I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History

    Already known as a gorgeous literary stylist and keen-eyed art critic, Emmanuel Iduma unfurls his inimitable, rhythmic prose to tell the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. Though prompted in part by a...
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  • Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Ramirez, Janina
    Janina Ramirez

    Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it mattersThe Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints, and kings: a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig...
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  • When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World by Gaines, Caseen
    Caseen Gaines

    When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World

    If Hamilton, Rent, or West Side Story captured your heart, you'll love this in-depth look into the rise of the 1921 Broadway hit Shuffle Along, the first all-Black musical to succeed on Broadway.No one was sure if America was ready for a show featuring...
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  • When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World by Gaines, Caseen
    Caseen Gaines

    When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World

    If Hamilton, Rent, or West Side Story captured your heart, you'll love this in-depth look into the rise of the 1921 Broadway hit Shuffle Along, the first all-Black musical to succeed on Broadway.No one was sure if America was ready for a show featuring...
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  • Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Winchester, Simon
    Simon Winchester

    Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to...
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  • Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Winchester, Simon
    Simon Winchester

    Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to...
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  • An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Smith, Richard Norton
    Richard Norton Smith

    An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

    "Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn't know, bringing new...
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  • An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Smith, Richard Norton
    Richard Norton Smith

    An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

    "Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn't know, bringing new...
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  • A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Kundera, Milan
    Milan Kundera

    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to...
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  • A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Kundera, Milan
    Milan Kundera

    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to...
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  • Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? by Gordis, Daniel
    Daniel Gordis

    Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?

    On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Israel.In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty...
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  • Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? by Gordis, Daniel
    Daniel Gordis

    Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?

    On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Israel.In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty...
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  • The Secret Lives of Numbers: An Unauthorized History of Mathematics by Kitagawa, Tomoko
    Kate Kitagawa

    The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Mathematics

    A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold storiesWe think we know the story of math: A bearded old Greek guy named Pythagoras dreamed up his theorem. Another bearded...
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  • Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Talty, Stephan
    Stephan Talty

    Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

    "Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve. ... Talty delves the deepest into the history and twisted personality of David Koresh." --Wall Street JournalThe first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from...
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  • God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time by Prothero, Stephen
    Stephen Prothero

    God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time

    New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day--a search, born of two world...
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  • Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War by Killen, Andreas
    Andreas Killen

    Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War

    In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the...
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  • Beijing Rules by Allen, Bethany
    Bethany Allen

    Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

    An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy--capitalism--to expand its illiberal influence worldwide.Bethany Allen,...
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  • Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules by Field, Patricia
    Patricia Field

    Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

    From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture--bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream--comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions.Carrie Bradshaw's pairing of a tutu with...
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  • Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations by Wood, Cutter
    Cutter Wood

    Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

    Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions--from mucus to sweat to poop--revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...
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  • All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Garfield, Simon
    Simon Garfield

    All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

    From the "deliriously clever" (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day."A brilliant book about knowledge itself." --Deirdre Mask, author of The Address...
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  • Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Mitenbuler, Reid
    Reid Mitenbuler

    Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

    The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II.Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried alive...
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  • Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Schulman, Michael
    Michael Schulman

    Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

    The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards....
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