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  • GENTLEMEN OF UNCERTAIN FORTUNE
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    GENTLEMEN OF UNCERTAIN FORTUNE
    RORY MUIR
    A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons—men of good family but small fortune †‹In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many ob...

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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 thi...

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  • THE GREAT PLAGUE
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    THE GREAT PLAGUE
    EVELYN LORD
    In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from h...

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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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  • LEARNING BY DOING
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    LEARNING BY DOING
    JAMES BESSEN
    “Bessen sets out to refute the arguments of . . . techno-pessimists, relying on economic analysis and on a fresh reading of history” (The Wall Street Journal).   Technology is constantly changing our world, leading to more efficient production. But where once technological advancements dramatically increased wages, the median wage has remained stagnant over the past three decad...

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  • THE MOST GOOD YOU CAN DO
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    THE MOST GOOD YOU CAN DO
    PETER SINGER
    An argument for putting sentiment aside and maximizing the practical impact of our donated dollars: “Powerful, provocative” (Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times).   Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a cr...

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  • TACTICS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BATTLE IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
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    TACTICS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BATTLE IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
    RORY MUIR
    This historical study of Napoleonic battles and tactics examines firsthand accounts from soldiers’ memoirs, diaries, and letters: “A major work” (David Seymour, Military Illustrated).   In this illuminating volume, historian Rory Muir explores what actually happened in battle during the Napoleonic Wars, putting special focus on how the participants’ feelings and reactions influ...

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  • DO GUNS MAKE US FREE?
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    DO GUNS MAKE US FREE?
    FIRMIN DEBRABANDER
    This study investigates the relationship between gun ownership and democracy, exposing the dubious claims of the NRA and other gun rights supporters. One of the most vital and polarizing debates in American society today concerns the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. The core argument of gun advocates like the National Rifle Associati...

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  • HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY
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    HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY
    JERRY KAPLAN
    An “intriguing, insightful” look at how algorithms and robots could lead to social unrest—and how to avoid it (The Economist, Books of the Year).   After decades of effort, researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. Society stands on the cusp of unprecedented change, driven by advances in robotics, machine learning, and perception powering systems tha...

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  • LATEST READINGS
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    LATEST READINGS
    CLIVE JAMES
    “[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal).   In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his Cambridge ...

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  • BEAUTIFUL, SIMPLE, EXACT, CRAZY
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    BEAUTIFUL, SIMPLE, EXACT, CRAZY
    APOORVA KHARE / ANNE LACHOWSKA
    Two mathematicians explore how math fits into everything from art, music, and literature to space probes and game shows. In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool in the cr...

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  • THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIOUX NATION
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    THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIOUX NATION
    ROBERT M. UTLEY
    This award-winning history of the Sioux in the 19th century ranges from its forced migration to the reservation to the Wounded Knee Massacre.   First published in 1963, Robert M. Utley’s classic study of the Sioux Nation was a landmark achievement in Native American historical research. The St. Louis Dispatch called it “by far the best treatment of the complex and controversial...

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  • FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940
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    FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940
    JOHN LUKACS
    A “gripping [and] splendidly readable” portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill’s eventual victory—as Hitler’s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe).   From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes u...

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  • A VISITOR'S GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS
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    A VISITOR'S GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS
    NEIL FAULKNER
    The essential handbook for the 21st-century citizen seeking a lively guided tour of the ancient Greek Olympics. Travel back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. Enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture and discover what the Greeks did and didn’t do during five thrilling days in August, 388 B.C. In the Olympic Stadium there were no stand...

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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 sc...

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  • THE BATTLE FOR THE ARAB SPRING
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    THE BATTLE FOR THE ARAB SPRING
    LIN NOUEIHED / ALEX WARREN
    This “lucidly written” account of the 2011 wave of revolutions “includes a wealth of astute analysis on the politics of the region, from Morocco to Oman” (Paul Hockenos, The National).   Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to be called the Arab Spring of 2011. Millions to...

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  • IVAN THE TERRIBLE
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    IVAN THE TERRIBLE
    ISABEL DE MADARIAGA
    “This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   One of the most important figures in Russian history, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has remained among the most neglected. The country’s first Tsar, he is notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing...

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  • CHURCHILL
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    CHURCHILL
    JOHN LUKACS
    “Lukacs convincingly portrays a leader of an empire in irreversible decline and a towering, if flawed, hero of our time.”—Publishers Weekly In previous works, John Lukacs told the story of Winston Churchill’s titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, he turns his attention to the man himself, the workings of his historical imagination, and his s...

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  • CONVERSIONS
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    CONVERSIONS
    CRAIG HARLINE
    The experiences of two families—one in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America today—and how they coped when a family member changed religions. This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the Reformation can offer insight to families facing similarl...

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  • AN EMPIRE OF ICE
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    AN EMPIRE OF ICE
    EDWARD J. LARSON
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, “wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged” (Booklist).   An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientifi...

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  • FORGOTTEN CONTINENT: THE BATTLE FOR LATIN AMERICA'S SOUL
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    FORGOTTEN CONTINENT: THE BATTLE FOR LATIN AMERICA'S SOUL
    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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  • 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 VIRGIN WARRIOR
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    THE VIRGIN WARRIOR
    LARISSA JULIET TAYLOR
    “A fresh and provocative biography of La Pucelle . . . her transformation from a naive girl to a strong-willed, bold, and gifted captain of war.”—Frederic J. Baumgartner, author of France in the Sixteenth Century France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found h...

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  • TEN POPES WHO SHOOK THE WORLD
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    TEN POPES WHO SHOOK THE WORLD
    EAMON DUFFY
    “Simply brilliant” essays on the leaders who have most powerfully shaped not just the Church itself, but the course of human history (Catholic Library World). The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity’s most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe ...

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  • ORDERLY AND HUMANE
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    ORDERLY AND HUMANE
    R. M. DOUGLAS
    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: betwee...

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  • THE IRON WAY
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    THE IRON WAY
    WILLIAM G. THOMAS
    How railroads both united and divided us: “Integrates military and social history…a must-read for students, scholars and enthusiasts alike.”—Civil War Monitor   Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of Ameri...

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