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History and Current Events June 2018
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| The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace JohnsonWhat it's about: In June 2009, American student Edwin Rist stole 299 rare bird skins from Hertfordshire, England's Natural History Museum, removing their feathers to sell to fly-fishing enthusiasts.
Don't miss: This astonishing true crime caper features an unexpected twist worthy of a courtroom drama.
Reviewers say: "Johnson's flair for telling an engrossing story is, like the beautiful birds he describes, exquisite" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and the Remaking of American Comedy by Chris NashawatyAn anecdotal account of the making of Caddyshack shares profiles of the comedy pioneers behind it, citing the influence of Harvard's National Lampoon and the film, Animal House before stories from the country-club summer jobs of Bill and Brian Doyle Murray inspired the film's wacky production throughout a memorable Florida summer. Movie tie-in
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The Fourth Age : Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity by Byron ReeseA timely assessment of the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence and robotics in human life traces how technology arrived at this point and how such topics as artificial life, machine consciousness, extreme prosperity and technological warfare will be hotly debated issues of the near future.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen BrusatteThe "resident paleontologist" for BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs presents a narrative scientific history of the dinosaur eras that examines their origins, habitats, extinction and living legacy, chronicling nearly 200 million years of their evolution from small shadow dwellers through the emergences of prehistoric ancestors that became more than 10,000 modern bird species.
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation by John SedgwickA revisionist history of the lesser-known story of the 19th-century rivalry between Cherokee chiefs The Ridge and John Ross contends that, in spite of lengthy negotiations with the first 16 American Presidents, they and their followers became divided on key tenets of peace talks and devastated the Cherokee Nation with division, war and forced migrations.
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