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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaWidely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William...
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National ThemesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika "Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the...
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Ecos de Nueva España. Los Siglos Perdidos En La Historia de México / Echoes of T He New Spain: The Lost Centuries in Mexican HistoryCasi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido libro ilustrado que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personajes que configuraron el asombroso universo novohispano. Nueva España era un territorio gigantesco, comprendía de lo que ahora es el sur de...
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We LiveThe term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing...
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The Secret History of Wonder WomanWithin the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a page-turner ... skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and...
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The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa MovementsThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the...
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Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation ArmyThe mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for reasons...
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Everybody: A Book about FreedomThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst...
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Parlour MagicAmaze your friends with timeless magic tricks!Originally published in 1838, Parlour Magic contains over 350 party tricks that will impress even the most skeptical of audiences. These memorable experiments require only household items, scientific principles, and wit. Using this book, you will be able...
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The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science"The Great Starvation Experiment is wide-ranging, weaving progress in the war into the day-to-day suffering of the hungry volunteers." --Saint Paul Pioneer Press"Fascinating . . ." --Minneapolis Star TribuneNear the end of World War II, thirty-six conscientious objectors volunteered to be systematically starved for...
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the UnderworldThe basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past.Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and the notorious Five Points district, The Gangs...
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20sOne of the world's most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and '30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a "modern" Egyptian. Women came to dominate...
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce StoryThis newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and...
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Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the ImaginationHailed by critics and embraced by readers, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas Jefferson in a generation. Following her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed has teamed with Peter S. Onuf to...
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American FreedomFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation's gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious...
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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's OwnIn this remarkable and important book, Sarah Carter introduces us to some of Montana's first women homesteaders through their journals and other writings. By shedding light on these determined nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century pioneers, Carter reveals inspiringh stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption.Author: Sarah...
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Across the Wide MissouriWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way...
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American StateProhibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion...
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You Can't WinYou Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.After its Amok Press edition went out of print,...
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The Voyageur's Highway: Minnesota's Border Lake LandThe voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people--explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists--were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians, Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich...
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