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No turning back: Life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria by Rania AbouzeidAn award-winning journalist chronicles the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. An utterly engrossing human drama full of vivid, indelible characters that shows how hope can flourish even amid one of the twenty-first century's greatest humanitarian disasters.
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Patriots: The Vietnam War remembered from all sides by Christian G. AppyAn oral history of the Vietnam War spanning the entire history of the conflict. These first hand accounts allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides -- Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people.
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With access to never-before-seen private archives, Leonie Frieda's comprehensive and sympathetic account explores the life of the most human of all Renaissance monarchs and the most enigmatic.
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| A searing collection of new and previously published first-person accounts written by a diverse group of sexual assault survivors. It features essays written by actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union and writers Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, and Claire Schwartz. Further reading: Kate Harding's meticulously researched Asking For It, which offers suggestions for how society can combat sexual violence and rape culture. |
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World war Trump: The risks of America's new nationalism
by Hall Gardner
An expert on global politics from the American University of Paris reveals the dangers of Trump's nationalist agenda and its destabilizing effects on the world, arguing that the current administration's proposed economic nationalism and military buildup is alienating the country's allies, promoting cooperation among hostile states and committing America to war.
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Just over 100 years ago, Theodor Herzl launched the Zionist movement. Fifty years later, after the Holocaust, the State of Israel came into being, established so that Jews anywhere in the world could have a homeland. Just as Israel celebrates 70 years of independence, the nation’s fascinating story is told by renowned historian Martin Gilbert, complete with images of important historical documents.
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The biggest prison on Earth: A history of the Occupied Territories by Ilan PappéPublishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Using recently declassified archival material, he analyses the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians and the decision-making process itself--that laid the foundation of the occupation.
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| The feather thief: Beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century by Kirk Wallace JohnsonIn 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. A years-long worldwide investigation followed leading Johnson deep into the fiercely secretive underground community obsessed with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. This astonishing true crime caper features an unexpected twist worthy of a courtroom drama. |
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The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age.Tiffany Jenkins tells the story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for their return. This ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
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The century spanning the Wars of the Roses and the reigns of the Tudor kings was a volatile time of battle and bloodshed, execution and unexpected illness. Some met their end in battle, others were dragged to the block, and some were lost in mysterious circumstances. The majority of these young men died in their teens, diverting the route of dynastic inheritance and passing power into unlikely hands. This book examines ten such figures, using their lives to build a narrative of this savage century.
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Based on US documents handed over to the German Federal Archives and the testimonies of Himmler's family and staff, this book examines how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism and astrology before finally turning to the science of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan race.
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Christina Riggs introduces the history, art and religion of Egypt from its earliest dynasties to its final fall to Rome and explores the influence ancient Egypt has had through the centuries. Looking for a vanished past, she argues, always serves some purpose in the present.
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The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home. Asne Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside.This is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.
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Cleopatra: Fact and fiction by Barbara WattersonCleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary.This book sheds fascinating light on the woman behind the image. The fact that Cleopatra’s legend still burns bright today is proof of Shakespeare’s description of her as a lady of infinite variety whom custom cannot stale.
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| The next pandemic: On the front lines against Humankind's gravest dangers by Ali S. KhanThis enthralling medical history turns an investigative eye toward the causes of infectious disease outbreaks, whether naturally occurring or engineered as bioterrorism, and what we can do to prevent their return. A vivid, page-turning narrative palatable to both science enthusiasts and general readers. |
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The end of epidemics: The looming threat to humanity and how to stop it
by Jonathan D Quick
A Harvard Medical School instructor and chair of the Global Health Council outlines recommendations for preventing the next global pandemic, drawing on the examples of epidemics ranging from smallpox and AIDS to SARS and Ebola to outline specific measures for appropriate spending, communication and innovation.
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In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 2500 Māori.This was New Zealand’s worst-ever public health disaster. This book shows how we coped back in 1918 – the response of public health officials, how the sick were nursed, how thousands of convalescents were fed and the lessons learned that may still be useful today.
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| Pandemic: Tracking contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and beyond by Sonia ShahA grim yet absorbing exploration of global pandemics' origins and the modern pathogens that may trigger future outbreaks. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of cholera, one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next global contagion might look like and what we can do to prevent it. Sonia Shah is the author of The Fever, a global history of malaria. |
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