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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or...

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father." ?Charles Kaiser, The Guardian

A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the
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Young People, Learning and Storytelling (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education)
Young People, Learning and Storytelling (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education)
This book explores the lives of young people through the lens of storytelling. Using extensive qualitative and empirical data from young people’s conversations following storytelling performances in secondary schools in the UK, the author considers the benefits of stories and storytelling for learning and the subsequent emotional,...
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power,...

Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

"Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post
Kirkus Review 
starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review

The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath

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Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science
Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science
More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited by corrupting a sport ripe for...
DK Life Stories: Albert Einstein
DK Life Stories: Albert Einstein
In this kids' biography, follow the remarkable life story of Albert Einstein, whose legendary genius and creative imagination made him one of the world's most famous thinkers.

Albert Einstein is known as one of the most brilliant people in history. His many theories and discoveries changed the way scientists
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Nominated for the Toronto Book Award

Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger?yet their minority status...

I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel
I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel

2020 Selah Award Winner

Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who’d been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?

Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set out to rebuild their...

Correspondents: A Novel
Correspondents: A Novel
“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”?Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

The world
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.

An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of
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Methionine Dependence of Cancer and Aging: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1866)
Methionine Dependence of Cancer and Aging: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1866)

This book explores the methionine dependence of cancer and its effects on aging, a great story of science that is not widely known. The chapters in this book describe the discovery of methionine dependence of cancer; the molecular basis for the increased methionine demand of cancer cells and tumors; the clinical application of...

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