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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through. "Los Angeles is refracted in all its...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and ExpandedThe groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head--from the "brilliant, deeply original political thinker" David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me) Before there was money, there was debt. For more than...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and ExpandedThe classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve...
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the LiesDick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma...
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Diamonds: Their History, Sources, Qualities and BenefitsThe beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world. Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status symbols and have been worn, collected and presented as lavish...
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Diario de Anne Frank / Diary of a Young GirlTIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos Un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie, y una celebración del espíritu humano y las ganas de vivir. El Diario de Anne Frank es una de las autobiografías más leídas de...
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Disability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability JusticeDisability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability Justice aims to bring visibility to the liberation struggle of people with disabilities, adding an internationalist and class perspective-and making them the subject, not the object, of history. Exploring the social construction of...
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Division Street: AmericaA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."-The New York Times When New Press founder Andréeacute; Schiffrin...
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American SouthIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property...
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Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate CultureWall Street Journal's Five Best Books on the Confederates' Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the...
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip"A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit...
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made HistoryA "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a...
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Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Craft, Couture, and MonarchyA revealing history that explores the artistry, craftmanship, and traditions behind the royal wardrobe. "A truly wonderful and fascinating book!"--Lady Anne Glenconner From tours and walkabouts to the dazzling spectacle of a wedding or Coronation, the clothes worn by royal women have always been...
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Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of ChinaThe Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral,...
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Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power EraA collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during the pivotal decade of 1965-1975. These activists...
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young LivesThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit'Bursting with ideas and images' - Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl'Utterly, utterly brilliant' - Tracy Borman, author of The King's Witch At eighteen, your life...
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El Diario de Anne Frank (Novela Gráfica) / Anne Frank's Dairy: The Graphic Adaptation"12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confiártelo todo como aún no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para mí un gran apoyo". Tras la invasión de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocultó de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa...
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Electric Bluesman: The Life and Times of Jimi HendrixStorming London as a black guitarist in a world of white musicians, Jimi Hendrix reclaimed rock and roll as true American music. His first guitar was an old, beat-up acoustic that he carried on his back through the streets of Seattle. For years, he...
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Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American LandmarksA sweeping cultural history of two iconic landmarks that reflect the spirit, character, and values of the US--the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty--and the role they play in shaping American culture, US history, and international relations In Empire and Liberty, historian...
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New OrleansFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans'...
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