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Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories By David Crystal
Explore how books have played a pivotal role in the history of English vocabulary. The noun itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many commonly used expressions today – by the book, bring to...- from 45.00 SR
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Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India By Sanjaya Baru
Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless...- from 45.00 SR
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead By Kenneth Rogoff
A leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck. Drawing in part...- from 45.00 SR
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Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine By Kelly Loudenberg
Celebrity romances have always captured the public’s imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By the same token, high-profile trials can take over the mainstream media cycle, with both news pundits and the public picking over every detail...- from 45.00 SR
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Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare By John Lechner
The disturbing inside story of how the Wagner private military company exploits a warring world.In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine for Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the “Wagner Group” faded back into...- from 45.00 SR
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The Harms of Beauty By Sam Barnes
The beauty industry thrives on creating a sense of dissatisfaction with appearance, with social media adding pressure to conform to idealized images of beauty. This has led to a growing use of products for bodily improvement such as facial injectables and weight loss drugs,...- from 45.00 SR
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John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America's Independence By Willard Sterne Randall
A compelling, intimate portrait of John Hancock, going beyond the flamboyant signature to provide insight into the pivotal role that he had in the American Revolution.A contemporary of Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, Hancock’s contacts read like a...- from 45.00 SR
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors By Steven R. Schwankert
A moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic—and how they survived against all the odds.When Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely 700 people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in...- from 45.00 SR
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The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood By Nina Willner
An epic story of the triumph of good over evil.The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler’s evil: two teenage boys—survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald—who had escaped.The Boys in the Light follows...- from 45.00 SR
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Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded: Technical Innovations and Their Lasting Impact By Vaclav Smil
Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century combines two of Vaclav Smil's seminal works in a revised and expanded edition. Creating the Twentieth Century explores the period between 1867 and 1914, a time of unparalleled innovation that laid the groundwork for modern civilization. It investigates the birth of...- from 55.00 SR
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Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism By Ee Ling Quah
Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in Asia-Pacific region, Fire Dragon Feminism discusses Asian migrant women's encounters with coloniality and racial capitalism at their workplace and in their everyday life.Centring anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist philosophies and strategies, this open access book introduces 'fire...- from 45.00 SR
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The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover By Jan Gradvall
Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA’s success.There has never been a group like ABBA. More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world...- from 45.00 SR
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Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France By Hannah Frydman
Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing and norming the population through the heterosexual family. That space was the newspaper, which was not...- from 45.00 SR
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Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939 By Samuel Rutherford
In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship. But while the state could enforce these norms through the...- from 45.00 SR
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The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution By Joyce E. Chaplin
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary“A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative...- from 45.00 SR
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System By Brando Simeo Starkey
A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in AmericaTheir Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than...- from 55.00 SR
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Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists By Susan Gubar
One of our most formidable literary critics explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts. In 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived...- from 45.00 SR
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Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics By Carol Moseley Braun
A memoir from Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun detailing her remarkable childhood and political career on the Hill, including her tenure as the first Black female US senatorThe first Black woman ever elected to the Senate. The first woman to represent the state of Illinois....- from 45.00 SR
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The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne By Chris Sweeney
“A biography that reads like a novel.” —The Wall Street Journal • “Laybourne was a badass.” —Los Angeles Times • “Sweeney’s biography must be read to be believed.” —The Millions • “Engrossing...Riveting...This entrances.” —Publishers WeeklyThe fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist—Roxie Laybourne, who broke...- from 45.00 SR
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Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky By Joanne Baker
'An exhilarating exploration of how we've been touched by the cosmos across human history' LEWIS DARTNELL'A contemplative journey ... illuminating how astronomy connects us to the stars, and also to each other' REBECCA BOYLEWhat draws us to the night sky and how can we make sense...- from 50.00 SR
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The Young Elites Series By Marie Lu (3 Books Set)
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Scottish Spice Series By Bonnie Woods ( 2 Books Set )
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Messina Crime Family Series By Lilian Harris ( 5 Books Set )
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Into Darkness Series By Navessa Allen (2 Books Set)
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Detective Margot Phalen Series By Kate Wiley (5 Books Set)
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Mercy Kilpatrick Series By Kendra Elliot (6 Books Set)
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Bone Secrets Series By Kendra Elliot (5 Books Set)
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Columbia River Series By Kendra Elliot (6 Books Set)
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The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thrillers Series By Lauren Street (12 Books Set)
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Darcy Hunt FBI Mystery Series By Eva Sparks (9 Books Set)
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Agent Victoria Heslin Series By Jenifer Ruff (9 Books Set)
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Allie Bishop FBI Mystery Thrillers Series By Eva Sparks (7 Books Set)
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Jessie Night Thriller Series By Ember Scott (6 Books Set)
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