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Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Flower Traveled in My Blood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 • THE WASHINGTON POST 'S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 • THE ATLANTIC 'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2…

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Donald G McNeil
The Wisdom of Plagues

A prize-winning New York Times reporter reflects on 25 years of covering pandemics---how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the…

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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Myrna Perez
Criticizing Science

How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy.

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Scott W. Berg
The Burning of the World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker ) story of the Gre…

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William D Hartung, Ben Freeman
The Trillion Dollar War Machine

A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon's runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite"A damning indictment of the conflicts of …

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Sergi Auladell Fauchs
The Catalan Crisis

Applying theory to the political crisis in Catalonia and Spain.The Catalan Crisis explores the dissolution of the politico-territorial status quo between Catalonia and Spain and examines the emergence of …

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Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The city reemerged from the as…

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Douglass K Daniel
Kill-Do Not Release

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified materi…

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Trude Strand
Israel and the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israeli decision-makers opted to conquer, colonise, occupy and dominate the Gaza Strip.Why was this sliver of land - home and refuge to around 400,000 Palestinians - s…

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Towns Between Empires

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governanc…

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Kate Brown
Tiny Gardens Everywhere

Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once th…

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Patrick Mulford O'Connor
The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation fol…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Barney White-Spunner
Nations in Arms

"An engrossing study." Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2025 A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with …

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Richard Parker
The Crossing

"A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of Nort…

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