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Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st CenturyIn Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in...
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From Culturalist Nationalism to ConservatismWhat does it mean to be a conservative in Republican China? Challenging the widely held view that Chinese conservatism set out to preserve traditional culture and was mainly a cultural movement, this book proposes a new framework with which to analyze modern Chinese conservatism....
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Hell Comes to Play: The True Untold Story of America's Mass Murdering Family, The Bloody BendersMyth and fabrication have dominated the re-telling of the Bender's story. NOW for the first time ever, new facts are presented, documented and sourced to tell the TRUE story of The Bloody Benders, as never before told!Justice has finally come for the victims of...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton KingdomWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities "A brilliant book...This transformative work...
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In Search of AchillesSummer 1990. The Berlin Wall has fallen. In Europe, society is about to spiral upward toward more prosperity and freedom for all. The free market provides the lone blueprint for a life of purpose. But does it? As the sun of plenty shines brighter,...
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Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready...
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Basins of SilverThe story of the Las Animas Mining District in Colorado's San Juan Mountains began with the Colorado Gold Rush of 1860, but it was silver that kept the local mines operating for over one hundred years. A well-documented study that separates fact from folklore,...
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EYE on GSOA collection of essays written for O.Henry magazine and Yes! Weekly focused on the history of Greensboro, NC.When Greensboro, Charlton Heston with a cast of thousands, and a camp filled with Nazis won World War II + Drive-In theatres + Greensboro's own Grey Gardens...
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The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia's Victory Over Austria, 1866Königgrätz, a city overlooking the river Elbe, was a western strongpoint of the Austrian Empire. On the morning of July 3, 1866, Prussia attacked the city against high odds and defeated the Austrian army in a single day, despite the Austrian advantage in heavy...
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Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme StyleZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.--Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944 Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era...
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Patriot Hearts: World War I Passion and Prejudice in a Minnesota CountyWhile world war raged in Europe, an America divided by ethnic, political and nationalist unrest struggled to come together. Nowhere were tensions greater than in Minnesota, then under dictatorial control of a temporary seven-man commission-arrests for treason multiply, watchful secret agents are on duty,...
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Titanic (1943): Nazi Germany's version of the disasterLong before James Cameron captured the cinemas with his blockbuster, a German Titanic film made in 1943 shook the audience. Director Herbert Selpin became part of the NS propaganda machine and had orders to weave anti-British paroles into a seemingly objective film. The present...
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The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed AustraliaWinner of the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid...
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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and PoliticalThe Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary...
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What We Tried to Bury Grows HereA masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War. In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from the insurrectionists by...
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A Jewel in the CrownJames Bond meets Maisie Dobbs in this riveting new historical caper series featuring a gifted young socialist-turned-counterespionage spy on a World War II mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself... 1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain....
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Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial EqualityLessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there--in the only neighborhood where Mexicans were allowed...
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We Are Only GhostsAn exhilarating, brutally candid saga about sexuality and war, tenderness and trauma, young desire and fierce hate, as a teenage boy's unexpected, complicated relationship with a Nazi officer in a WWII death camp is resurrected in 1960s New York City. We Are Only Ghosts...
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GoldensealA Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives...
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The Storm We MadeA spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII--and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family. Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has...
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