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  • The Imminent Collapse of America and of the Whole Western Civilization: A Different Perspective of Contemporary History with the Eyes of G.B. Vico. Bi by Bertolo, Angelo
    Angelo Bertolo

    The Imminent Collapse of America and of the Whole Western Civilization: A Different Perspective of Contemporary History with the Eyes of G.B. Vico. Bi

    In the 5000 years of the history that we know, great empires grew and fell according to certain patterns that repeat themselves like laws of nature. The USA rose and grew to prominence in the world, reached its zenith in 1945 with the military...
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  • Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Worlds, from 2838 BCE to 394 BCE, Compared to Carbon-14 Dating by Gertoux, Gérard
    G駻ard Gertoux

    Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Worlds, from 2838 BCE to 394 BCE, Compared to Carbon-14 Dating

    The first scientific chronology of the Egyptian civilisation, calculated by Olaf A. Toffteen in his monograph: Ancient Chronology (1907), fixed the beginning of the First Dynasty in 3285 BCE. In their academic study: Ancient Egyptian Chronology (2006), Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss and David A....
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  • Great King Thoth: Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World by Preston, Steve
    Steve Preston

    Great King Thoth: Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World

    What King Thoth did to re-civilize the world after the Pleistocene Extinction was amazing. As things got bad again, no one else would even try to halt the calamity. What he accomplished after that was nothing less than miraculous. His subjects tried to deify...
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  • Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics by Lipson, Carol S.
    Carol S. Lipson

    Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics

    ANCIENT NON-GREEK RHETORICS contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the ancient...
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  • The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by Rocco, Sha
    Sha Rocco

    The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship

    This short book on ancient 'Phallic worship', as the Victorians called it, contains much which is covered in the other entries in this literature. Jennings has a compelling thesis about the role of sexuality in ancient religions and their modern successors which bears careful...
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  • Strange Objects Which Should Not Exist by Ettington, Martin K.
    Martin K. Ettington

    Strange Objects Which Should Not Exist

    Many objects have been found from the deep past which should not exist. We are talking about millions to hundreds of millions years ago.The objects described in this book provide lots of evidence that they really originated in the deep past. These things include...
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  • End of Modern Civilization And Alternative Future by Dasa, Sahadeva
    Sahadeva Dasa

    End of Modern Civilization And Alternative Future

    This book is an authoritative work in civilizational studies as it relates to our future. Dr. Dasa has analyzed human civilizations in the last 5000 years and the reasons these civilizations went into oblivion. Each of these civilizations collapsed due to one or two...
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  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zulu by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zulu

    *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Zulu *Includes European descriptions of the Zulu *Includes a Bibliography for further reading "He is Shaka the unshakeable, Thunderer-while-sitting, son of Menzi He is the bird that preys on other birds, The battle-axe that...
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  • A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t by Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra
    Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra

    A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to the Age of the Pyramids (The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife) by Garrett, Maude
    Maude Garrett

    Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to the Age of the Pyramids (The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife)

    The middle kingdom is a short period in egypt's history, but it is important because it was a period of political unity and prosperity. Because of that, it is sometimes referred to as the golden age of egypt. Pharaoh mentuhotep ii united the previously...
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  • The Good News of Messiah by Gregg, Daniel
    Daniel Gregg

    The Good News of Messiah

    The Good News of Messiah is a fresh translation of the New Testament from the original Greek, with careful attention to Hebrew influences on the Greek text. For example, instead of the traditional English "John," the GNM renders the text "Yohanan," and likewise most...
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  • A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t by Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra
    Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra

    A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Future of Our Past by Blackham, H. J.
    H. J. Blackham

    The Future of Our Past

    A thematic essay following the course of Western history in terms of cultural inheritance and legacy from Periclean Athens through the Dark Ages and Renaissance, into the beginning of what is now the third millennium.Author: H. J. BlackhamISBN-10: 1573920428ISBN-13: 9781573920421Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1996Pages:...
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  • Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan by Grinshpun, Helena
    Helena Grinshpun

    Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan

    This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses the cultural context of Japan, where tea-drinking has been culturally important, reports on the emergence of the...
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  • The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar by Bárth, Dániel
    D疣iel B疵th

    The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar

    The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism...
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  • War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective by Kaspersen, Lars
    Lars Bo Kaspersen

    War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective

    In this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship. He seeks to move beyond explanations provided by traditional approaches by discussing and presenting alternative state-society and state theories, arguing...
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  • Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States by Murphy, Joanne M. a.
    Joanne M. a. Murphy

    Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

    Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual...
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  • A Concordance to Conrad's Romance by Bender, Todd K.
    Todd K. Bender

    A Concordance to Conrad's Romance

    Originally published in 1985, this volume follows others in the series. An alphabetical frequency table lists all the words indexed with the frequency of their appearance in the field of reference. There is also a table arranged by descending frequency. The verbal index lists...
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  • The Peoples of Anatolia by Labuff, Jeremy
    Jeremy Labuff

    The Peoples of Anatolia

    Studies of the peoples of Anatolia take for granted the existence and importance of regional ethnic communities on the peninsula when investigating issues of identity, ethnic origins, and cultural assimilation (especially Hellenization). In reviewing the scholarship, Jeremy LaBuff argues that such assumptions lead to...
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  • Western Civilization Year Four - Sourcebook by Shearer, Robert G. W.
    Robert G. W. Shearer

    Western Civilization Year Four - Sourcebook

    A series of nine readings covering the period from 1865-1920 collected for high school seniors studying Western History Year Four 1865-1990. The readings cover Reconstruction, The Franco-Prussian War, The New Imperialism, Anarchism, The Spanish-American War, The Boxer Rebellion, Teddy Roosevelt, The Russo-Japanese War, and...
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  • Domitian: The Final Messiah by Villegas, Robert
    Robert Villegas

    Domitian: The Final Messiah

    Domitian's contribution to religion is virtually unknown. Yet, as this book illustrates, he is the father of some of Christianity's most profound concepts. The goal of this book is to define the specific themes and concepts that make up Domitian's religious precepts - in...
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  • Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East by Young, Ruth
    Ruth Young

    Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East

    Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and purposes, the village occupants themselves, a system that in some cases remained in place up to the 1979 Islamic...
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  • The Trial of Joan of Arc by Scott, W. S.
    W. S. Scott

    The Trial of Joan of Arc

    In her journey from peasant to military commander to martyr, Joan of Arc cuts an extraordinary figure, even for a saint. Inspired by religious visions to lead a victorious campaign against invading English forces, the iconic figure is credited with changing the direction of...
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  • Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas by Siganporia, Harmony
    Harmony Siganporia

    Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas

    In February 2019, Harmony Siganporia walked from Dandi to Ahmedabad, retracing the route of Gandhi's Salt March in reverse. She walked this route of just under 400 kilometres over 25 days, much as Gandhi and the original band of Marchers did in 1930. The...
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  • The Gardener Through History by Johnson, Robin
    Robin Johnson

    The Gardener Through History

    Gardening is often expressed as art, harmoniously in their environment, as well as being a science, encompassing all the principles and techniques of plant cultivation. Through the eyes of a gardener, here is a journey of growing food from the stone age to modern...
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  • Barbara Darling-Smith

    Courage

    This timely book brings together ten scholars in the varied fields of philosophy, theology, history, anthropology, and literature to reflect on the theme of courage. Contributors to this volume agree that courage is not just for the few or the dramatically heroic. While some...
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  • Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Bary, Wm Theodore de
    Wm Theodore de Bary

    Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600

    Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of...
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  • Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People by Oriji, J.
    J. Oriji

    Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People

    Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone...
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  • The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Keohane, Joe
    Joe Keohane

    The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

    A "meticulously researched and buoyantly written" (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Yuval Noah...
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  • A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History by Bouwsma, William J.
    William J. Bouwsma

    A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History

    The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book...
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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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