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"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the...
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Race to the truth volume 3
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English
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"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
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2024.
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English
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
5) Emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
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English
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
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2024.
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English
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"Amitav Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family-the climax of a yearslong project"-- Provided by publisher.
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous...
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"On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-three-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water at Beach Haven, New Jersey--the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a war on sharks"--...
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Thames & Hudson Ltd
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2016.
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English
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"Great paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter ... [This book] spotlights the finer points a quick glance will almost certainly fail to reveal. These include subtle internal details, such as hidden symbols. Expert commentary reveals the technical tricks employed by the artist to achieve particular effects ... and also looks at the themes and external and personal factors influencing the creation of an artwork ..."--Jacket.
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Viking
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[2024]
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English
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"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Descifra los secretos y descubre el origen y el significado de mas de dos mil signos y simbolos, desde los antiguos jeroglificos hasta los logos actuales. Por que un corazon traspasado por una flecha es una simbolo del amor? Cuales son las raices de los simbolos de la fertilidad? Por que una balanza simboliza la justicia? Esta apasionante libro desentrana el significo oculto de las imagenes simbolicas --
"For centuries, symbols have been imperative...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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2024.
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English
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"Celebrate the diversity, history, and rich cultures of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and teach kids ages 8-12 about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped AAPI history."-- Provided by publisher.
16) The survivors of the Clotilda: the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
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"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"-- Provided by publisher.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Descubre la fascinante historia de la brujeria, la magia y la supersticion a lo largo de los siglos en este libro bellamente ilustrado. Magia, brujeria y ocultismo. Una historia ilustrada traza la extraordinaria historia de uno de los temas mas interesantes y a menudo controvertidos del mundo, desde el antiguo culto a los animales y el chamanismo, pasando por la alquimia y la adivinacion hasta la wicca o el resurgimiento del ocultismo en la literatura,...
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"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same...
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Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Understanding Zionism introduces the rise and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and the impact of Zionism on government and society in Israel. The book examines special topics, such as the phenomenon of Christian Zionism, movements of opposition to Zionism, and frameworks regarding the future direction(s) of Zionism. -- publisher marketing.
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Como se diagnostican las enfermadades? Que es el cancer Por que algunas pandemias son tan mortiferas? Este libro responde estas y otras muchas preguntas, explorando y explicando los logros y hallazghos que han configurado nuestra vision moderna de la medicina y nos ayudan a proteger y promover nuestra salud. Con un lenguaje claro, El libro de la medicina desbroza la jerga cientifica y ofrece sencillas explicaciones de los hitos mas importantes de...
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