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Ana Lucia Araujo

Humans in Shackles

"Ana Lucia Araujo's Humans in Shackles is an Atlantic cultural history of slavery in the Americas that sets out to redress the imbalances of existing general histories of slavery by centering on the lived…

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Jack Ashby

Platypus Matters

Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals--and how our perceptions impact their future. Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-call…

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Greg Barnhisel

Code Name Puritan

"Norman Holmes Pearson was a scholar and a spy. His scholarship brought him close to poets like Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden. But he also was close to the CIA, whe…

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Alison Bashford

The Huxleys

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian …

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Jeremy Black

A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps

The first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps. Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe…

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John W Boyer

The University of Chicago

"This institutional history of the University of Chicago, as told by the longtime dean of the college, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer is both sweeping …

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Maggie M Cao

Painting Us Empire

"This book is the first to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism in the nineteenth century. Maggie M. Cao offers revisionist readings of history paintings of the colonial past, landscapes of…

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Tim Chartier

Nonstandard Notebook

"Our civilization has the odd habit of printing books full of lines. We call these notebooks "ruled". It's an orderly, lawful word, as befits an orderly, lawful document. Of course, in a ruled notebook, t…

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Chip Colwell

So Much Stuff

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged …

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Gioia Diliberto

Firebrands

"Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on the history of Prohibition focuses on four women who played central roles in promoting, enforcing, profiting from, and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment: Ella …

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Margaret Doody

Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Jane Austen took a particular delight in the resonance of names, and in her novels she used the names of people and places as a potential source of meaning, satirical or historical. Margaret Doody s book …

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Catherine Tatiana Dunlop

The Mistral

"Every year, most forcefully when winter turns to spring, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhãone Valley of southern France over the northwest coast of the Gulf of Lion into the Mediterranean. So…

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Katherine C Epstein

Analog Superpowers

"The technology at the center of this book marks a milestone in computing history. Until the late nineteenth century, naval gun crews aimed and fired at virtually point-blank ranges, but as warship speeds…

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Samuel W Franklin

The Cult of Creativity

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativit…

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Mark Guarino

Country and Midwestern

The untold story of Chicago's pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul…

lieferbar ab 19.9.2024.

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Nicolás Guillén

The Great Zoo

"Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo by the Afro-Cuban poet NicolaáI p1 ss GuilleáI p1 sn (1902-1989) is a wry political project structured as though a fantastical bestiary of ideas and…

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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

Sea Level

"What do we mean when we talk about sea level? How and why did people begin to measure it? With Wilko Graf von Hardenberg as our guide, we follow these questions and more to the muddy littoral spaces of V…

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F. A. Hayek

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition Volume 2

Collected Works of F. A. Hayek -Band 2

Examines the relationship between individual liberty and government authority, and argues that granting government control of the economy leads to disaster. "Original text \CS\1944 by the University of Ch…

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Denise L Herzing

Is Anyone Listening?

"If you could ask a dolphin one question, what would it be? What might a dolphin ask you? In her studies of marine mammal communication, researcher and author Denise Herzing has asked these and related qu…

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Jolanda Insana

Slashing Sounds

"Jolanda Insana (1937-2016) is a Sicilian poet who has long been under-recognized outside of Italy, and Catherine Theis's stellar translation of Insana's first full collection, Slashing Sounds, is the fir…

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