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History and Current Events September 2020
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A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution
by Jeremy D. Popkin
A comprehensive analysis of the principles, events and influences of the French Revolution examines the roles of such contributors as Mirabeau and Robespierre while explaining the violent debates that led to modernism and the rise of Napoleon.
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A convenient death : the mysterious demise of Jeffrey Epstein
by Alana Goodman
"Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper search for the truth of what really happened to Jeffrey Epstein. With access to Epstein's victims and lawyers, to doctors, Wall Street insiders and law enforcement officers, they reveal the dirty secrets and sinister ties that may have driven someone in Epstein's circle to take matters into their own hands."
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Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man
by Mary L. Trump
"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric"--Provided by publisher
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Exploration and Exploitation
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Roald Amundsen : the conquest of the South Pole
by Julie Karner
"Reveals how Amundsen's years of arctic training, expert dog-handling skills, and luck in finding a quicker route, allowed him to reach the South Pole more than a month before his closest rivals."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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Empire of Crime : Opium and the Rise of Organized Crime in the British Empire
by Tim Newark
Combining hidden reports, secret government files and personal letters with first-hand accounts, the author, digging deep into colonial archives, presents an eye-opening look at crime, opium and greed in the Far East, in an epic but little-known story of the battle between law enforcement and organized crime.
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The space barons : Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space as navigated by today's leading billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are dramatically lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
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Ghost Empire : How the French Almost Conquered North America
by Philip Marchand
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy.
After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role.
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