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New BiographiesFebruary 2016
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Concussion
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Tells the true story of how forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu discovered a dangerous secret that the National Football League desperately tried to keep silent.
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When breath becomes air
by Paul Kalanithi
A Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes his how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
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Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
by Jon Meacham
Draws on exclusive sources to provide a portrait of the 41st president that traces the Bush family's humble 19th-century origins, his Connecticut childhood, his military service, his business achievements and his political accomplishments. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion.
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Ellsworth Kelly
by Tricia Y. Paik
This definitive monograph, and the last book to be created in close collaboration with the artist, a pioneer of abstract art and one of the most distinctive and influential artists of our time, maps his prolific and diverse oeuvre from the 1940s to his final projects before his death in late 2015.
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The Who : the official history
by Ben Marshall
A book filled with never-before-published images and memorabilia from the band's own archives chronicles The Who's highs and lows, documenting how a tax inspector, metal factory worker, art school stoner and maverick drummer created the sound of a generation.
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon
In a lively illustrated biography of the feminist icon and legal pioneer, readers can get to know the Supreme Court Justice and fierce Jewish grandmother, who has changed the world despite our struggle with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, standing as a testament to what a little chutzpah can do.
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The astronomer & the witch : Johannes Kepler's fight for his mother
by Ulinka Rublack
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defense.
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The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words
by Raymond Chandler
Told through Chandler's novels, short stories and letters, a rare glimpse into the life of "the man with no home" reveals what it was like to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction, discusses the work of his contemporaries and reveals his Hollywood relationships.
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Lady Byron & her daughters
by Julia Markus
A rebel against fashionable snobbery of her class, Lady Byron, after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, founded the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England and was lauded as a pioneer of computer science, in a never-before-told story of a remarkable woman who made a life for herself and a progressive force in her century.
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Russell Kirk, American conservative : American Conservative
by Bradley J. Birzer
Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Russell Kirk's 1953 masterpiece The Conservative Mind was a seminal book that became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement.
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