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Imperfect SolidaritiesCan empathy deliver political change? Does art that elicits emotional identification with others take us where we need to go? In Imperfect Solidarities, writer and art historian Aruna D'Souza offers observations pulled from current events as well as contemporary art that suggest that a...
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Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOsThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs--now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)--reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.Luis "Lue" Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and...
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How to Lose a War: The Story of America's Intervention in AfghanistanAn incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling...
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art...
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art...
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How The Book of Mormon Came to Pass: The Second Greatest Show on EarthSeveral explanations for the seemingly sudden appearance of The Book of Mormon in 1829 (first published in 1830) have been put forth by both historians and apologists alike. Each holds some value to its advocates while displaying obvious inconsistencies and unexplained features. However, significant...
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How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. JournalismThis concise history of American journalism--including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and digital--introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers to today's news conglomerates and the rise of the digital media. Authors Ford Risley and Ashley Walter examine historical trends, including advocacy...
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Hitlerism: Die EndlösungEuropa and her progeny face alien immigration and environmental degradation. Godless materiality has displaced reverent piety. Faith is absent or fixed on Jewish chimeras. Science has morphed from a tool to understand the world to an infallible deity. Man, too, has morphed - into...
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History of the War of IndependenceThe sixth edition of this two-volume History of the War of Independence of the United States of America was originally published in 1837. Written by Carlo Botta, it was translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis. Of the work when it was originally...
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Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in CaliforniaBeginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California's rich history of LGBT community formation and political engagement....
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Hā'ena: Through the Eyes of the AncestorsHā'ena is a land steeped in antiquity yet vibrantly beautiful today as any Hollywood fantasy of a tropical paradise. He 'āina momona, a rich and fertile land linked to the sea and the rising and setting sun, is a place of gods and goddesses:...
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Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-DiscoveryA poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was...
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Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary WatersThe story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history--the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake fire of 2007, one of...
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Guide to American CultureSurrounded by an unfamiliar language, references and ideas, many students coming here to learn English along with newcomers hoping to start a new life in the United States find themselves quickly overwhelmed and bewildered. This book is their road map to an American culture...
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Great Plains HomesteadersGreat Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government's...
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Germany's French Allies 1941-45A fully illustrated study of the Wehrmacht's French volunteer units and their actions on the Eastern Front and in North Africa during World War II. It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending Germany in the...
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GeorgiaFrom wildlife watching at Okefenokee Swamp to visiting museums in Atlanta, Georgia is full of adventures. This title introduces the state's people, culture, and places to visit. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features...
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Gaza's Struggle: A History of Israel-Hamas Relations"Gaza's Struggle: A History of Israel-Hamas Relations" offers a comprehensive exploration of the complex and enduring conflict between Israel and Hamas. This book delves into the historical, political, and human dimensions of the conflict, tracing its roots to the early 20th century and examining...
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Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil WarJ. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War-era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state experienced the initial attempts of the U.S. Army to create a comprehensive...
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From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of TampaSince its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communities. In From Saloons to Steak Houses, Andrew Huse takes readers on a journey into historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup...
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