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New 700 - 900s/Travel Non-Fiction Books 700 Art, Design, Sports, and Recreation 800 Literature and Poetry 900 Geography, Travel, and History |
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Changeover : a young rivalry and a new
era of men's tennis
by Giri Nathan
A vivid chronicle of men's tennis in 2024, capturing the end of
the Djokovic-Nadal-Federer era and the rise of prodigies Carlos
Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner as they reshape the sport while the
old guard fiercely resists fading away.
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Flashes of Brilliance : The Genius of
Early Photography and How It
Transformed Art, Science and History
by Anika Burgess
Writing with verve and an eye for compelling details, Burgess
explores how photographers uncovered new vistas, including
catacombs, cities at night, the depths of the ocean, and the
surface of the moon. She describes how photographers captured
the world as never seen before, showing for the first time the
bones of humans, the motion of animals, the cells of plants,
and the structure of snowflakes.
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Threads of empire : a history of the
world in twelve carpets
by Dorothy Armstrong
Traces the history of the world through the stories of twelve
carpets, examining how these textiles symbolized power, spirituality,
and status, while also revealing the lives of their poor, often
anonymous weavers and their connection to global events across
time and geography.
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The Foreign Invention of British Art
by Leslie Primo
Broadcaster and lecturer Leslie Primo expertly places art history
in the wider political contexts of xenophobia and influence,
addressing both foreign artists working in Britain and British-born
artists affected by foreign cultures. From Hans Holbein to Artemisia Gentileschi, William Hogarth to Angelica Kauffman, familiar masters
and lesser-known creators are situated within the multiculturalism inherent to, yet commonly dismissed by, the art world at this time.
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By the second spring : seven lives and
one year of the War in Ukraine
by Danielle Leavitt
To illuminate the complex resurgence of Ukraine’s national spirit,
Leavitt tells the story of Volodymyr Shovkoshitniy, a nuclear engineer
at Chernobyl who went on to lead a daring campaign in the late
1980s to return the bodies of three Ukrainian writers who’d died
in a Soviet gulag. Writing with closeness and compassion, Leavitt
has given us an interior history of Europe’s largest land war in
seventy-five years.
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Grass Isn't Greener : The Everyday Conservationist's Guide to Bringing
Nature to Your Yard
by Danae Wolfe
Rooted in twenty practical steps that anyone can take starting today, Grass Isn’t Greener demonstrates how small changes in
your yard or garden can create lasting impact for the planet: from leaving your leaves to selecting eco-friendly holiday decorations;
from eliminating light pollution to attracting wildlife; from saving
seeds to devoting even a small patch of lawn to native plants.
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John & Paul : a love story in songs
by Ian Leslie
In John & Paul, acclaimed writer Ian Leslie uses the songs they
wrote to trace the shared journey of these two compelling men
before, during, and after The Beatles. Drawing on recently released footage and recordings, Leslie offers us an intimate and insightful
new look at two of the greatest icons in music history, and rich
insights into the nature of creativity, collaboration, and human
intimacy.
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How to be avant-garde : modern artists
and the quest to end art
by Morgan Falconer
A journey through 20th-century avant-garde movements, tracing
how artists and writers sought to dissolve art's boundaries by
merging it with everyday life, political activism and design, while challenging traditional definitions of art across Europe, Russia
and the United States.
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Both/and : essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color
by Denne Michele Norris
This powerful anthology of essays by trans and gender-
nonconforming writers of color offers honest, beautifully
crafted reflections on identity, community and lived experience,
originally developed through an inclusive, pitch-based editorial
process to foster creative growth.
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
An internationally bestselling author offers a memoir of the will
to write, a work of disobedient memory, humor and exquisite
craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.
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One day, everyone will have always
been against this
by Omar El Akkad
An award-winning novelist and immigrant to the West, after
reporting on the War on Terror, Black Lives Matter protests, and
the slaughter in Gaza, concludes that much of what the West
promises is a lie—that there will always be groups outside the boundaries of privilege who won't be considered fully human.
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Deadwood : gold, guns, and greed in
the American West
by Peter Cozzens
Tells the true story of a notorious Black Hills gold rush settlement
of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok and
Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock.
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To lose a war : the fall and rise of
the Taliban
by Jon Lee Anderson
Collects nearly twenty-five years of reporting to trace the
evolution of the U.S. war in Afghanistan from early intervention
to withdrawal, documenting battlefield victories, political missteps,
and the long-term consequences of military overreach and shifting priorities.
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Between two rivers : ancient
Mesopotamia and the birth of history
by Moudhy N. Al-Rashid
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call
ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for
the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity,
like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of
pi, the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy.
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A noble madness : the dark side of
collecting from antiquity to now
by James Delbourgo
From Roman emperors lusting after statues to modern-day
hoarders, award-winning author James Delbourgo tells the
extraordinary story of fanatical collectors throughout history.
He explains how the idea first emerged that when we look at
someone's collection, we see a portrait of their soul: complex,
intriguing, yet possibly insane.
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The world at first light : a new history
of the Renaissance
by Bernd Roeck
A new and ambitious history of the Renaissance as a global
event which, the author argues, was much more revolutionary
and profoundly influential than we currently appreciate. This is
nothing less than a new history of the origins, development and
legacy of the Renaissance in a global and comparative context. Presented as a panorama of what the author characterizes as
a restless and dramatic epoch, the book is an exploration of how
a distinct concentration of ideas, discoveries, and tumultuous
political circumstance should have coalesced in Europe in such a
way and at a particular time as to bring about the modern world
as we know it.
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Ring of fire : a new history of the world
at war: 1914
by Alexandra Churchill
Most countries did not know what they were getting into during
the precarious days of 1914. Global citizens believed they were
going to get a short conflict that would settle old scores in a
matter of weeks-but it was soon clear that was not going to be
the case. From the Balkans to East Prussia, France, and Belgium, nineteenth-century warfare came face to face with twentieth-
century technology and the ensuing, brutal clash of empires
resulted in deadlock.
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Issue in Doubt
by Robert Bares
Issue in Doubt is a tribute to United States military personnel
who served in the Pacific during World War II. It focuses on the
period from Pearl Harbor through the battle for Guadalcanal and
aims to locate and identify the surface warships of Japan, the
United States, Britain, Australia and the Netherlands in critical
battles.
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Dinner with King Tut : how rogue archaeologists are re-creating the
sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of
lost civilizations
by Sam Kean
Whether it's the mighty pyramids of Egypt or the majestic temples
of Mexico, we have a good idea of what the past looked like. But
what about our other senses: The tang of Roman fish sauce and
the springy crust of Egyptian sourdough? The frenzied plays of an
Aztec ballgame...and the chilling reality that the losers might also
lose their lives? History often neglects the tastes, textures, sounds,
and smells that were an intimate part of our ancestors' lives, but a
new generation of researchers is resurrecting those hidden details, pioneering an exciting new discipline called experimental
archaeology.
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A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
by Sophie Elmhirst
The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea:
a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched
to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. Alone
together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but
ways to get along. Taut, propulsive, and dazzling.
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The Roma : a traveling history
by Madeline Potter
Blending memoir and archival research, her sweeping, heartfelt
traveling history moves across Europe, from Tudor England to
Romania where she was born and raised; from sixteenth-century
Spain to modern Sweden; from Nazi Austria to twenty-first-century France to uncover the interwoven stories and struggles of Romani communities past and present, and what the future may hold for
both nomadic, and settled, families on the continent.
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The Nazi Mind : Twelve Warnings from History
by Laurence Rees
How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How
were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to
perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration
and death camps willingly—and often enthusiastically—oversee
mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the
removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian
Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing
questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust. Ultimately, he delves into the darkness to explain how and why
these people were capable of committing the worst crimes in
the history of the world.
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Scorched earth : a global history of
World War II
by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed
victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of
the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic
order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin
dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he
depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by
vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across
huge stretches of Asia and Europe.
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Snafu : history's greatest screwups
by Ed Helms
This book will unpack the incredibly ironic decision-making and hilariously terrifying aftermath of America's biggest mishaps.
Filled with sharp humor and lively illustrations, SNAFU is a wild
ride through time that not only entertains but offers fresh
insights that just might prevent history from repeating itself
again and again.
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A genocide foretold : reporting on survival and resistance in occupied Palestine
by Chris Hedges
A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under
siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are
waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges
provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation,
and violence.
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