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New Nonfiction Releases December 2017
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
by Thomas Weber
An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into an influential National Socialist leader.
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
by A. N. Wilson
A radical reappraisal of Darwin by the best-selling author of Victoria: A Life argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.
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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
by Jacqueline Jones
A portrait of 19th-century activist Lucy Parsons discusses her birth to a slave, her Texas upbringing, her marriage to Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons, her self-reinvention, the contradictions that riddled her life and her fearless advocacy of First Amendment rights and the working classes.
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
by David B. Woolner
A revealing portrait of the end of the 32nd President's life shares new insights into how FDR made his momentous final policy decisions, drawing on new evidence to demonstrate how his final 100 days marked the establishment of the United Nations, a reinvigoration of the New Deal and the possibility of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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The Last Black Unicorn
by Tiffany Haddish
The stand-up comedienne and co-star of The Carmichael Show presents an uproarious and poignant collection of autobiographical essays that reflect her disadvantaged youth as a foster child in South Central Los Angeles; her discovery of her talent for comedy; and her struggles with gender, race and class boundaries in the entertainment industry.
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The Only Girl in the World
by Maude Julien
A memoir by a therapy specialist in manipulation and psychological control describes her harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness," and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
by Paul Kix
The senior editor of ESPN the Magazine presents a first book in which he illuminates the life and exploits of British Special Operations Executive and French Resistance hero Robert de la Rochefoucald, tracing his privileged upbringing, his elite military training and the missions he conducted as an Allied spy.
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The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
by Phil Szostak
In a book featuring concept art and costume sketches, storyboards and blueprints, fans will take a deep dive into the development of the fantastic worlds, characters and creatures—both old and new—of The Last Jedi, in a book that includes exclusive interviews with the filmmakers.
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
by Vanessa Neumann
Revealing how the multibillion-dollar illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products is actually funding the world's terrorist organizations, a sobering report by an expert on countering illicit trade explains the dangerous consequences of purchasing contraband, from cheap cigarettes and prostitute services to fake designer bags and bootleg DVDs.
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The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
by Mikhail Zygar
Portrays Russia's brief and exotic experiment with liberalism and cultural openness in the years before the Communist Revolution and the deaths of the Tsar and his family, revealing how the period marked a blossoming of artistic expression and open political views.
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
by Ian Black
An authoritative account of more than a century of violent confrontation, war and occupation in Palestine and Israel, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, draws on a wide range of sources to offer new insights into major events and present-day challenges.
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
by Emily Dufton
A chronicle of marijuana's journey toward and away from legalization examines how grassroots activists from the 1970s nearly secured its decriminalization before conservative parents and the Reagan administration transformed cannabis into a focus for the War on Drugs.
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The How Not to Die Cookbook
by Michael Greger
The author of the best-selling How Not to Die presents a fully illustrated companion cookbook of health-bolstering, plant-based recipes based on the latest nutrition science, from Superfood Breakfast Bites and Spaghetti Squash Puttanesca to Two-Berry Pie with Pecan-Sunflower Crust.
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
by Sam Wasson
From the best-selling author of Fosse comes a sweeping history of the uniquely American art form of improv, which has never been more popular, from its beginnings during the McCarthy Era through the rise of such institutions as Second City, the Groundlings and the Upright Citizens Brigade and such performers as Tine Fey, Steve Carell and Bill Murray.
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The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision
by Sandra Jean Scofield
The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise...This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams.
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope
by Eric L. Lamar Motley
A special assistant to George W. Bush and executive vice president of The Aspen Institute think tank chronicles his vibrant coming of age in a small Alabama community founded by freed slaves, where he learned valuable lessons about helping others, embracing faith and fighting racial injustice.
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
by Rebecca Fraser
With the aid of contemporary documents, the author brings to life an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower, in a book that looks at the First Thanksgiving and the Winslows conflicted relationship with the Wampanoag Indians.
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Radical Origins: Why We Are Losing the Battle Against Islamic Extremism-and How to Turn the Tide
by Azeem Ibrahim
An international expert traces the menacing rise of the extreme ideology of Wahhabism—the puritanical, reactionary, isolationist, xenophobic and bigoted sect of Sunni Islam that has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since its original rise in the 18th Century—and argues that it is this ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells worldwide.
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
by Erling Kagge
A compact meditation on the role of silence in a creative life contrasts silence to the constant distracting noises of today's connected world while describing the experiences of fellow poets, artists and explorers as well as his personal experiments during a 50-day solo walk in Antarctica without radio contact.
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
by Hillary L. Chute
Comics scholar Hillary Chute reveals the history of comics, underground comics (or comix), and graphic novels, through deep thematic analysis, and fascinating portraits of the fearless men and women behind them.
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You're Not That Great: But Neither Is Anyone Else
by Elan Gale
A tongue-in-cheek guide to recognizing the ridiculous in everyday approaches to happiness and staying positive reveals how to harness negativity to make actual improvements, explaining how everyday feelings of poor self-esteem, regret and shame can become tools for a life on one's own terms.
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