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  • THE CRUSADER ARMIES
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    THE CRUSADER ARMIES
    STEVE TIBBLE
    A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and ar...

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  • PIRATES
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    PIRATES
    PETER LEHR
    A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as well as the dramatic rise of modern-day piracy around Somalia and the Horn of Africa. In this global histo...

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  • THE ROMANS AND THEIR WORLD
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    THE ROMANS AND THEIR WORLD
    BRIAN CAMPBELL
    A concise and accessible account of one of the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential empires in world history, ancient Rome.    This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected ...

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  • THE LOGIC OF MIRACLES
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    THE LOGIC OF MIRACLES
    LASZLO MERO
    “Consistently surprising…The Logic of Miracles breaks new ground in the relationship of probability, fate, and the ability of human beings to behold them."—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human   We live in a more turbulent world than we like to think. Yet the science we use to analyze economic, financial, and statistical events mostly disregards the world’s essentially chaoti...

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  • MY PARENT'S KEEPER
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    MY PARENT'S KEEPER
    JODY GASTFRIEND
    “Unflinchingly tackles a complex aspect of eldercare in each chapter . . . an indispensable resource for family caregivers.”—Patrick O’Malley, author of Getting Grief Right   When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new...

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  • MINDS MAKE SOCIETIES
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    MINDS MAKE SOCIETIES
    PASCAL BOYER
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies. “There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integ...

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  • COPYCATS & CONTRARIANS
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    COPYCATS & CONTRARIANS
    MICHELLE BADDELEY
    “Why we run with—or avoid—the crowd, and why it matters, from choosing a restaurant in a tourist trap to believing fake news. I learned a lot” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist).   Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, ...

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  • TURNCOAT
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    TURNCOAT
    STEPHEN BRUMWELL
    A historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor. General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold’...

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  • INVISIBLE COUNTRIES
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    INVISIBLE COUNTRIES
    JOSHUA KEATING
    A journalist explores how our world’s borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map.   What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible C...

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  • DOMINA
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    DOMINA
    GUY DE LA BÉDOYÈRE
    “An illuminating and highly readable narrative about the role of women at the center of imperial Rome—fascinating and important.” —Lesley Adkins, author of Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecess...

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  • DESERT KINGDOMS TO GLOBAL POWERS
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    DESERT KINGDOMS TO GLOBAL POWERS
    RORY MILLER
    An expert in Arab Gulf politics offers a revealing analysis of the region’s stunning rise to global power and the challenges it confronts today. Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented influence on international affairs—the result of their almost unimaginable rich...

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  • STALIN AND THE BOMB
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    STALIN AND THE BOMB
    DAVID HOLLOWAY
    The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs). For forty years the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Then, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, David Holloway pu...

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  • ELEPHANTS ON THE EDGE
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    ELEPHANTS ON THE EDGE
    G. A. BRADSHAW
    “At times sad and at times heartwarming . . . Helps us to understand not only elephants, but all animals, including ourselves” (Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation).   Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. W...

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  • BESSIE
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    BESSIE
    CHRIS ALBERTSON
    The definitive biography of musical legend Bessie Smith: “A landmark in the writing of jazz history . . . First-rate” (The Washington Post).   Known as the “Empress of the Blues,” Bessie Smith was a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African American performer of the Roaring Twenties. This revised and expanded biography debunks many of the myths that ...

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  • MY GERMAN QUESTION
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    MY GERMAN QUESTION
    PETER GAY
    “Not only a memoir, it’s also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany” (Publishers Weekly).   In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—“the story,” says Peter Gay, “of a poisoning and how I dealt with it.” ...

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  • SPIES
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    SPIES
    JOHN EARL HAYNES / HARVEY KLEHR / ALEXANDER VASSILIEV
    “This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).   Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander...

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  • WHAT STALIN KNEW
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    WHAT STALIN KNEW
    DAVID E. MURPHY
    This “riveting account of one of history’s greatest blunders” chronicles Russia’s tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany’s invasion during WWII (William L. O’Neill, The New Leader).   On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany’s Operation Barbarossa was launched against Russia. Within days, the invading army had taken hundreds of thousands of Soviet captives while the Luftwaffe bombed a number...

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  • GALILEO
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    GALILEO
    DAVID WOOTTON
    “Demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature . . . [Wootton] excels in boldly speculating about Galileo’s motives” (The New York Times Book Review).   Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career...

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  • DARKNESS AT DAWN
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    DARKNESS AT DAWN
    DAVID SATTER
    “The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state” (Newsweek).   Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: A country impoverished and controlled at every level by...

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  • KNOWING THE ENEMY
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    KNOWING THE ENEMY
    MARY HABECK
    “In considerable detail and with admirable clarity, [Habeck] contributes one of the most valuable books on the ongoing Middle East—and world—crisis” (Booklist, starred review).   After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three thousand civilians in an unprovoked assault. Analysts have offered a wide variety of explanatio...

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  • THE BAGEL
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    THE BAGEL
    MARIA BALINSKA
    A “scrumptious little book” about the cultural and historical background of this humble and hearty treat (The New York Times).   If smoked salmon and cream cheese bring only one thing to mind, you can count yourself among the world’s millions of bagel mavens. But few people are aware of the bagel’s provenance, let alone its adventuresome history. This charming book tells the re...

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  • WETWARE
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    WETWARE
    DENNIS BRAY
    “A beautifully written journey into the mechanics of the world of the cell, and even beyond, exploring the analogy with computers in a surprising way” (Denis Noble, author of Dance to the Tune of Life).   How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex se...

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  • THE UNKNOWN BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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    THE UNKNOWN BATTLE OF MIDWAY
    ALVIN KERNAN
    “A memoir and more . . . Kernan brings this maritime battle superbly to life. . . . And he narrates the air assault in gripping detail” (The Wall Street Journal).   The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest US naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of...

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  • THE INFORMANT
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    THE INFORMANT
    GARY MAY
    An FBI’s informant’s role in the murder of a civil rights activist by the KKK is explored in this “suspenseful and vigorously reported” history (Baltimore Sun).   In 1965, Detroit housewife Viola Liuzzo drove to Alabama to help organize Martin Luther King’s Voting Rights March from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. But after the march’s historic success, Liuzzo was shot to death b...

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  • KING'S DREAM
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    KING'S DREAM
    ERIC J. SUNDQUIST
    “Sundquist’s careful, thoughtful study unearths new and fascinating evidence of the rhetorical traditions in King’s speech.”—Drew D. Hansen, author of The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation   “I have a dream”—no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luth...

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  • OKLAHOMA!
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    OKLAHOMA!
    TIM CARTER
    The backstage story of the timeless Broadway hit, and how Rodgers and Hammerstein brought it to life: “Meticulously researched” (Publishers Weekly).   Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway in 1943 under the auspices of the Theatre Guild, and today it is performed more frequently than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In this book, Tim Carter offers the first fully documented...

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  • THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
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    THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
    CAMPBELL CRAIG / SERGEY RADCHENKO
    A study of nuclear warfare’s key role in triggering the post-World War II confrontation between the US and the USSR After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III.   In this provocative study...

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  • GROWING THE GAME
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    GROWING THE GAME
    ALAN M. KLEIN
    A sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America’s favorite pastime. Baseball fans understand the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM
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    THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM
    JOHN C. BOGLE
    The legendary founder of Vanguard “presents an insider’s view of what’s wrong with corporate America and what can be done to improve it” (Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street). New York Times-bestselling author of Enough and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John Bogle has seen firsthand the innermost workings—and grotesque abuses—of the financial...

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  • HITCHCOCK'S MUSIC
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    HITCHCOCK'S MUSIC
    JACK SULLIVAN
    "A wonderfully coherent, comprehensive, groundbreaking, and thoroughly engaging study” of how the director of Psycho and The Birds used music in his films (Sidney Gottlieb, editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock).   Alfred Hitchcock employed more musical styles and techniques than any film director in history, from Marlene Dietrich singing Cole Porter in Stage Fright to the revolutio...

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