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'An astonishing account ...
For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships ...
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led ...
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred ...
Having suffered the devastating effects of the Manchester blitz, sixteen-year-old Salford lad Albert Smith signed up to join the RAF not thinking he would be ...
Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a ...
For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. They were restricted from owning property or ...
Pinpoints how "dogwhistles" and "figleaves," two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racismIt is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years ...
Just as a garden needs worms, we need bad feelings....We tend to think about bad feelings--feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt--as the weeds ...
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother ...
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this ...
'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' Guardian ...
A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.Until quite recently, the ...
A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman's experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City ...