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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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  • FORGOTTEN CONTINENT
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    FORGOTTEN CONTINENT
    MICHAEL REID
    The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America by The Economist editor and author of Brazil.   Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home t...

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  • THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
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    THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
    LEO BRAUDY
    The story behind the massive white block letters set into a steep Los Angeles hillside—and the city and culture they represent: “Terrific.”—San Francisco Chronicle   To so many who see its image, the Hollywood sign represents the earthly home of that otherwise ethereal world of fame, stardom, celebrity—the American and worldwide aspiration to be in the limelight, to be, like th...

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  • JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE
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    JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE
    BRIAN THOMAS SWIMME / MARY EVELYN TUCKER
    The basis for the Emmy-winning film. “A wonderful, highly readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the present moment.”—Thomas Lovejoy, University Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University   Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies a...

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  • THE THEORY THAT WOULD NOT DIE
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    THE THEORY THAT WOULD NOT DIE
    SHARON BERTSCH MCGRAYNE
    "This account of how a once reviled theory, Baye’s rule, came to underpin modern life is both approachable and engrossing" (Sunday Times).   A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegan...

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  • LOVE
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    LOVE
    SIMON MAY
    “What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff” (The Sunday Telegraph).   Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting—is worshipped today as the West’s only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-breaking and superbly written book, phil...

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  • MILK
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    MILK
    DEBORAH VALENZE
    The illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store. How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production an...

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  • THE NEW UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
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    THE NEW UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
    NANCY ELLEN ABRAMS / JOEL R. PRIMACK
    A cultural philosopher and an astrophysicist attempt to decipher how we fit into the universe, and the impact our placement has on us. After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology...

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  • CAPTAIN COOK
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    CAPTAIN COOK
    FRANK MCLYNN
    This “thoroughly researched and sharply opinionated” biography presents a nuanced portrait of the renowned 18th century navigator (The Wall Street Journal).   The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with bold adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent wri...

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  • MOZART AND THE NAZIS
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    MOZART AND THE NAZIS
    ERIK LEVI
    A music historian uncovers Nazi Germany’s use of Mozart as a WWII propaganda tool in this “intriguing study [that] comprehends a range of vital topics” (Choice).   As the Nazi war machine expanded its bloody ambitions across Europe, the Third Reich sought to promote a sophisticated and even humanitarian image of German culture through the tireless promotion of Mozart’s music. I...

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  • THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
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    THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
    DAVID GREEN
    What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world. The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict ...

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  • HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL IN TEN SONGS
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    HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL IN TEN SONGS
    GREIL MARCUS
    The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how ea...

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  • THOSE WHO HOLD BASTOGNE
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    THOSE WHO HOLD BASTOGNE
    PETER SCHRIJVERS
    The acclaimed World War II historian delivers “a panoramic and compelling boots-on-the-ground illumination of one of the Bulge’s most epic battles” (Patrick K. O’Donnell, author of Washington’s Immortals).   Hitler’s last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost c...

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  • EUGENE O'NEILL
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    EUGENE O'NEILL
    ROBERT M. DOWLING
    An “absorbing” biography of the playwright and Nobel laureate that “unflinchingly explores the darkness that dominated O’Neill’s life” (Publishers Weekly).   This extraordinary biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, innovatively highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interwea...

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  • SPEED LIMITS
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    SPEED LIMITS
    MARK C. TAYLOR
    A contemplation on “the durability of our fast-tracked, multitasked modern world . . . a stimulating cautionary report for the digital age.”—Kirkus Reviews   We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always bet...

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  • SAINTS AND SINNERS
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    SAINTS AND SINNERS
    EAMON DUFFY
    The latest edition of “the most comprehensive single-volume history of the popes,” updated to cover the election of Pope Francis (Sunday Telegraph).   This engrossing book, from a professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge, encompasses the extraordinary story of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day, as empires rose and fell around it. This new edition c...

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  • HANNIBAL
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    HANNIBAL
    EVE MACDONALD
    The life of the great Carthaginian general who marched into Rome during the Second Punic War is reexamined in this revealing and scholarly biography.   Once of the greatest military minds of the Ancient World, Hannibal Barca lived a life of daring and survival, massive battles, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched...

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  • MOURNING LINCOLN
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    MOURNING LINCOLN
    MARTHA HODES
    A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president’s assassination in this “highly original, lucidly written book” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom).   The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countl...

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  • THE SLAVE'S CAUSE
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    THE SLAVE'S CAUSE
    MANISHA SINHA
    “Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier   Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the ...

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  • THE SECRET POISONER
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    THE SECRET POISONER
    LINDA STRATMANN
    “This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK).   Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went ...

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  • MAPPING THE HEAVENS
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    MAPPING THE HEAVENS
    PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN
    A theoretical astrophysicist explores the ideas that transformed our knowledge of the universe over the past century.   The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the fo...

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  • GALLIPOLI
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    GALLIPOLI
    ROBIN PRIOR
    The noted historian’s decisive and devastating history of the WWI Battle of Gallipoli “sets a new standard for assessing the Allied Dardanelles campaign" (Mustafa Aksakal, American Historical Review). The Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to take control of the Dardanelles, secure a sea route to Russia, and create a Balkan alliance against the Centra...

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  • LIBERTY OR DEATH
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    LIBERTY OR DEATH
    PETER MCPHEE
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe   The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’...

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  • LAWRENCE OF ARABIA'S WAR
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    LAWRENCE OF ARABIA'S WAR
    NEIL FAULKNER
    This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts.   Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during th...

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  • ANATOMY OF MALICE
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    ANATOMY OF MALICE
    JOEL E. DIMSDALE
    An eminent psychiatrist delves into the minds of Nazi leadershipin “a fresh look at the nature of wickedness, and at our attempts to explain it” (Sir Simon Wessely, Royal College of Psychiatrists).   When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gi...

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  • DWELLING PLACE
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    DWELLING PLACE
    ERSKINE CLARKE
    Winner of the Bancroft Prize. “[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written.”—The New Republic   Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America’s slav...

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  • THE COMANCHE EMPIRE
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    THE COMANCHE EMPIRE
    PEKKA HAMALAINEN
    A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Native American empire.    In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European ...

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  • THE EDGE OF REASON
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    THE EDGE OF REASON
    JULIAN BAGGINI
    An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues: “A timely masterpiece.”—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a Nerve Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired fac...

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  • SUDAN
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    SUDAN
    RICHARD COCKETT
    The story of a nation in turmoil on its way to splitting in two: “Thoroughly absorbing” (The Wall Street Journal). In recent decades, the situation in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, progressively deteriorated into a failed state, with a war in Darfur claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. President Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court, and after South Sud...

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