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History and Current Events May 2024
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Recent Releases - Current Events |
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| Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith ButlerThe groundbreaking gender studies scholar explores how right-wing ideologues weaponize gender to spread fear-mongering misinformation in this thought-provoking study named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by ELLE, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, and more. |
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| Says Who? by Anne Curzan, Ph.D.University of Michigan English professor Anne Curzan's witty guide celebrates the evolution and flexibility of language, arguing for the importance of effective communication over "proper" usage. |
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Minority Rule
by Ari Berman
Partnering sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.
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World on the Brink
by Dmitri Alperovitch
An internationally recognized national security expert lays out the case for why China is preparing to conquer Taiwan, which risks triggering a devastating war between major nuclear powers, explaining how we must use our leverage as the strongest nation in the world to navigate the next Cold War.
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Attack from Within
by Barbara McQuade
This accessible debut explores how disinformation campaigns perpetuated by the Trump administration continue to play a detri- mental role in undermining American democracy.
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Recent Releases - History
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| The Blues Brothers by Daniel de ViséJournalist Daniel de Visé's engaging and nostalgic pop culture history offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic 1980 film The Blues Brothers and the friendship between its two stars, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. |
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West
by Robert Sullivan
This examination of the work of Timothy O'Sullivan, America's most famous war photographer, details his work after the Civil War capturing the landscapes of the American West while traveling with surveyors Clarence King and George Wheeler.
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| Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuValAward-winning historian Kathleen DuVal's sweeping and scholarly history offers a corrective to Eurocentric narratives about Indigenous Americans by spotlighting one thousand years of Native autonomy, governance, and resistance. |
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| The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.In his accessible and richly detailed latest, historian and bestselling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. surveys five centuries of Black literary canon, revealing the complexities and contradictions of Black self-definition in the written word. |
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My Black Country
by Alice Randall
The award-winning professor, songwriter, and author offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. What emerges is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture.
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| Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. RybackHistorian Timothy W. Ryback's richly detailed, you-are-there latest utilizes previously unseen archival materials to chronicle the six fateful months before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. |
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Muse of Fire
by Michael Korda
The stories of World War I are told through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury. As Korda demonstrates, the poets of WWI were soldiers, heroes, martyrs, victims, their lives and loves endlessly fascinating. Muse of Fire is at once a portrait of their lives and a narrative of a civilization destroying itself, among the rubble, shadows, and the unresolved problems of which we still live, from the revival of brutal trench warfare in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
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An Unfinished Love Story
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
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After 1177 B.C.: the Survival of Civilizations
by Eric H. Cline
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.
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