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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Cool Gray City of Love 49 Views of San Francisco Gary Kamiya Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site... Pink Sari Revolution A Tale of Women and Power in India Amana Fontanella-Khan A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women. In Uttar Pradesh—known as the "badlands" of India—a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how a seventeen-year-old girl ended up in jail... Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power Seth Rosenfeld Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr... Little Manila Is in the Heart The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton... Robert Oppenheimer A Life Inside the Center Ray Monk Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal... Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society Spawn of the Suicide Club! Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law This book will prove to be a template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 William Dalrymple From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has... Bolivar American Liberator Marie Arana It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. Season of the Witch Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love David Talbot In a kaleidoscopic narrative, the New York Times bestselling author of Brothers recounts the gripping story of the civil strife and tragedies that beset San Francisco between 1967 and 1982—and led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph... Detroit An American Autopsy Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. Autumn in The Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Stephen R. Platt A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping... Debt The First 5,000 Years David Graeber An history of debt written by an anarchist-sympathizing anthropologist (and a respected one, mind you)—who better to dig beneath the assumptions taken for granted by the Western science of Economics? From blood debts in moneyless societies... El Narco Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Ioan Grillo The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped... In the House of the Interpreter A Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer who has lived through extraordinary times. In the House of the Interpreter tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>