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History and Current Events July 2020
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Deadliest Enemy : Our War Against Killer Germs
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Ph.D. Osterholm, Michael T.
Drawing on the latest medical science, case studies, and policy research, Deadliest enemy explores the resources and programs we need to develop if we are to keep ourselves safe from infectious disease.
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The Fire and the Darkness : The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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Sinclair McKay
Drawing on first-hand accounts from ordinary civilians, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounts the history of the Dresden Bombing on February 13, 1945, taking a complex, human view of this terrible night and its aftermath.
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The Louvre : the many lives of the world's most famous museum
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James Gardner
Describes the history of the Louvre, which was a clay quarry in the first centuries AD, a fortress in 1191 and a royal residence in the 1300s until finally becoming a place to display national treasures after the French Revolution.
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Murder by the Book : The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
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Claire Harman
In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city talking. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. And the missing clue lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading.
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Tombstone : the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the vendetta ride from hell
by Thomas Clavin
"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town"
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The year 1000 : when globalization began
by Valerie Hansen
The author of The Silk Road draws on extensive research in a groundbreaking history of the explorations and trade commissions that connected the world’s most advanced societies for the first time 1,000 years ago.
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