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  • The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective by Lipset, Seymour Martin
    Seymour Martin Lipset

    The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective

    The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." Two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset's attention here: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent...
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  • Great Cities in History by Norwich, John Julius
    John Julius Norwich

    The Great Cities in History

    Today, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here?From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, this book explores how great...
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  • Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Sattin, Anthony
    Anthony Sattin

    Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

    Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the...
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  • 20 Fun Facts about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon by Mahoney, Emily
    Emily Mahoney

    20 Fun Facts about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may not actually contain hanging plants, but they do contain mysteries all their own, including speculation that they never even existed. Readers travel back in time to learn about this fascinating world wonder through interesting facts, historical images, and...
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  • The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Dio, Cassius
    Cassius Dio

    The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus

    Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Books 50 through 60 of his Roman History. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher...
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  • The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilization (Hardcover) by Hubbard, Arthur John
    Arthur John Hubbard

    The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilization (Hardcover)

    The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there be a permanent society, or are all doomed to decline? In the first part of this book, the author constructs several arguments...
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  • America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Hancock, Graham
    Graham Hancock

    America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on...
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  • Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cassidy, Cody
    Cody Cassidy

    Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

    Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the...
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  • The Pocket Constitution of the United States of America: Us Constitution Book, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence Travel Size by Pocket Constitution
    Pocket Constitution

    The Pocket Constitution of the United States of America: Us Constitution Book, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence Travel Size

    The Pocket Sized Constitution of the United States of America.Author: Pocket ConstitutionISBN-10: 1537389572ISBN-13: 9781537389578Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2016Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.09d
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  • An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Defoe, Gideon
    Gideon Defoe

    An Atlas of Extinct Countries

    The remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map. "Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close." Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's...
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  • The Silk Roads: An Illustrated New History of the World by Frankopan, Peter
    Peter Frankopan

    The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Illustrated Edition

    Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage...
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  • Person of Interest Investigator's Guide: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible by Wallace, J. Warner
    J. Warner Wallace

    Person of Interest Investigator's Guide: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible

    Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside Person of Interest and the Person of Interest Video Study,...
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  • Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Sowell, Thomas
    Thomas Sowell

    Conquests and Cultures: An International History

    This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try...
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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new...
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  • The Lessons of History by Durant, Will
    Will Durant

    The Lessons of History

    A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on...
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  • Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible by Wallace, J. Warner
    J. Warner Wallace

    Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible

    Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder cases.Detective J. Warner Wallace was skeptical of the Bible's claims about Jesus. But he'd investigated several no-body homicide cases in which there was...
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  • The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Ennos, Roland
    Roland Ennos

    The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization

    A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires--in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari's Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. As the...
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  • Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by Scott, James C.
    James C. Scott

    Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

    An Economist Best History Book 2017 "History as it should be written."--Barry Cunliffe, Guardian "Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order."--Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and...
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  • What Is Progress by Schiavone, Aldo
    Aldo Schiavone

    What Is Progress

    Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would...
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  • The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Mask, Deirdre
    Deirdre Mask

    The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

    Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and...
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  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

    In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in...
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  • Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Goldman, Lawrence
    Lawrence Goldman

    Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain

    A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of...
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  • From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition by Sinha, Kanad
    Kanad Sinha

    From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition

    Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the...
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  • Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Bowlby, Rachel
    Rachel Bowlby

    Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future

    What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see....
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  • The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire by Fitzpatrick, Matthew P.
    Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

    The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire

    Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other...
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  • London in the Roman World by Perring, Dominic
    Dominic Perring

    London in the Roman World

    incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and...
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  • A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
    Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

    A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution

    We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place....
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  • The Oxford History of Byzantium by Mango, Cyril
    Cyril Mango

    The Oxford History of Byzantium

    The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of...
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  • Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis by Tuma, Elias H.
    Elias H. Tuma

    Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis

    Have land reform movements ever managed to redistribute wealth, to encourage economic development, to improve standards of living, to ensure political stability? This book answers in the negative. Drawing upon land reform movements over twenty-six centuries of history, Tuma develops a hypothesis about land...
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  • A Companion to Assyria by Frahm, Eckart
    Eckart Frahm

    A Companion to Assyria

    A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview...
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  • Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis by Tuma, Elias H.
    Elias H. Tuma

    Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis

    Have land reform movements ever managed to redistribute wealth, to encourage economic development, to improve standards of living, to ensure political stability? This book answers in the negative. Drawing upon land reform movements over twenty-six centuries of history, Tuma develops a hypothesis about land...
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  • Assyria: The Imperial Mission by Liverani, Mario
    Mario Liverani

    Assyria: The Imperial Mission

    In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the...
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  • Writing the History of Slavery by Doddington, David Stefan
    David Stefan Doddington

    Writing the History of Slavery

    Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing Historyseries highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies...
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  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Graeber, David
    David Graeber

    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a...
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  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest...
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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if...
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  • Humankind: A Hopeful History by Bregman, Rutger
    Rutger Bregman

    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...
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  • The Library: A Fragile History by Pettegree, Andrew
    Andrew Pettegree

    The Library: A Fragile History

    Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age. Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in...
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  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by McGilchrist, Iain
    Iain McGilchrist

    The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture--"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status" (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK) "Persuasively argues that our society is suffering from the consequences of...
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  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Frankopan, Peter
    Peter Frankopan

    The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you...
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  • Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention by Wilson, Ben
    Ben Wilson

    Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

    In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street...
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  • The Year 1000: When Globalization Began by Hansen, Valerie
    Valerie Hansen

    The Year 1000: When Globalization Began

    *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a "vivid" and "astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if...
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  • The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Bookchin, Murray
    Murray Bookchin

    The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    "The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope,...
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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Herman, Arthur
    Arthur Herman

    How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made...
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  • Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Hanson, Victor Davis
    Victor Davis Hanson

    Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

    With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the...
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  • The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival by Begley, Chris
    Chris Begley

    The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

    In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more,...
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