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“Farley translates medical case studies, interviews, and other records into dynamic prose, weaving a fluid and immersive story of the sisters' lives and experiences.”

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“Just as Imperial Germany challenged British sea power in the early 20th century, China in the early 21st century has challenged U.S. sea power.”

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The Dream Street Pittsburgh Photography Project consumed W. Eugene Smith’s life for three years, from 1955–1958.

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Deeply engrossing and moving, this splendid biography gives us the remarkable man behind the tortured face.”

He taught us to bear witness.

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“Faderman’s engaging style defies the fear of this being a dense, obtuse, textbook. It isn’t.

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If you have ever wondered if public corruption, scandal, family political scheming, and unbounded ambition are recent phenomena in affairs of state, then look no further than this new volume on the

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“While the book does recount Picasso’s life, it is also a work of art history that provides fascinating insights about Picasso’s art and how it was shaped by his experiences as a ‘foreigner

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"a vivid image of Rome as it changes over the centuries . . . a big gift in one small book."

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“a truly new history of the battle that specifically aims at the many controversies and traditional talking points of the battle.”

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Liu, an expert on international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations, shows how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses ‘sovereign leverage funds’ to promo

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For readers who love the magical sixties and the legendary Beatles, 1964: Eyes of the Storm is for you.”

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“Butterflies is a small book . . . to be picked up again and reread—always finding something new in the poems, essays, and pictures.”

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“Despite his many travails and struggles, professional and personal—in relation to sexuality, class, ethnicity, and now ageism—Duberman acknowledges also his many successes in public as in

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Life, for all its foibles, also has its little justices: you miss the bus and meet the lovely boy waiting for the next one. They hire somebody else and the company promptly folds.

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“Watling’s deep research allows her to mine intimate views of these women, in both their public and private lives, and to recreate how each took up the cause.”

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Fascination with the lives of the contemporary British royal family has remained as strong as ever as demonstrated by the enduring success of Netflix’s The Crown, which dramatizes Queen El

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Before Colors is a wide ranging, effectively organized look into the origins of colors offering a satisfying dive into answering some of those nagging (or better said, wonderful)

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“J. C. Hallman explores the problems with historical conscience in Say Anarcha, the story of Dr.

“if you’re already intrigued by Indonesian food traditions or looking to learn a new and unfamiliar style of cooking, The Indonesian Table is an excellent introduction.”

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“In First Family, Good writes well of George Washington and the lives of the youngest of his step-grandchildren but without overreaching with the discussion of gossip.

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“integrates frontier history, solid writing, and brilliant illustrations and mixes that together with imaginative fun, quirky problem-solving resourcefulness, big picture ambition and human

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“Glass writes a simple, honest, straightforward engrossing history of the epic scale of post-traumatic stress disorder during the First World War as studied in Craiglockhart Hospital near E

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