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The Shrinking Sands of an African American BeachThe Shrinking Sands of an African American Beach is about the preservation of Florida's historic American Beach on Amelia Island in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and focuses on saving and protecting the community's heritage. A must-read for anyone interested in African American history, this 3rd...
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The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to UsA complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest-possible time span--from the Big Bang to the present day--in an astonishingly concise retelling. His impressive...
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These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South AfricaThese Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within...
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The Scramble for Africa: A Captivating Guide to European Expansion, Colonial Conflicts, the Berlin Conference, and Its Impact on Modern TimesStep into the riveting saga of the Scramble for Africa and learn about the dramatic reshaping of the African continent.This book offers a lens into the pivotal moments that saw Africa carved and claimed by European powers. Explore the technological revolution that was occurring...
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The Salem Witch Trials: Spot the MythsStarting in 1692, many American colonists accused others of being witches in Salem, Massachusetts. It resulted in the deaths of several innocent people. Myths about the Salem Witch Trials have stuck around for hundreds of years. Were only women accused of witchcraft during the...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of HistoryDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows...
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The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon EnglandRead all about the royal women who were powerful in their own right, as well as through their husbands, sons, and grandsons.Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognized today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this...
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The Rise of the New Kids on the Block and A Guy Named Maurice Starr: Before the Legend - The Early YearsIn 1953 many legends were born, but only one musical genius would create an international frenzy with a group of boys from North Dorchester and Jamaica Plain in Boston. Larry Johnson would become Maurice Starr, surrounded by love and music from day one, and...
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The Rise and Fall of AthensAuthor: PlutarchPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 05/21/2024Pages: 768Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780140449051About the AuthorPlutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor...
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The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911-12 bring about the fall of the Qing dynasty: it also brought an end to the entire series of dynasties that had marked Chinese...
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The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of EthicsAccessible, fascinating, and thought-provoking, this is the groundbreaking story of the global search for moral truths In this remarkable book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India...
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The Progressives' Bible: How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just AmericaWhile conservative groups have often appealed to the Bible to support their positions, so too have many progressive voices rooted in the Bible, seeing their struggles in its narratives and characters, and drawing on its verses to prove the truth of their arguments. Abolitionism...
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The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban BaseballFrom the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with...
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The Prayer of FaithThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Peace: A Warrior's JourneyInternational humanitarian icon and bestselling author General Roméo Dallaire guides readers on a crucial and inspiring journey from past wars through post-modern conflict toward a vision of lasting peace. In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through...
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The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639-1682: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle EastOttoman-Safavid relations after 1639 have been dismissed as marginal and assumed not to have produced sufficient documentation to facilitate a study, wherefore the subject matter has lacked even an introduction providing basic facts, let alone a comprehensive treatment. This book establishes for the first...
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The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite IraqThe Other Iraq challenges the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence. Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, this enlightening work reveals that the Iraqi intellectual field was always more democratic...
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The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic JudaismThe Passover and its rite are central in the history of Judaism and Christianity. Explaining hot the Passover evening celebration, the seder, became one of the most popular Jewish rituals, Baruch M. Bokser shows how it was based on and transformed a biblical sacrificial...
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The Opium QueenOlive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel...
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The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac SurgeryThis absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality.Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of...
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