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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author Horizontal Collaboration The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946 Mel Gordon Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic, the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during German occupation during World War II. Empire of Cotton A Global History Sven Beckert The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. Writing America Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee Shelley Fisher Fishkin American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers' lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful. The Money Makers How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace Eric Rauchway Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong. With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers... Prisoners of Geography Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Tim Marshall In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers. SPQR A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of... The Witches Salem, 1692 Stacy Schiff An unsensational, factual account of the oft-mythologized Salem witch trials. Schiff is a solid historian who makes this fact-dense, Protestant panoply enjoyable. —Recommended by Caitlyn, City Lights Bookstore The Devil's Chessboard Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government David Talbot Recommended by Jeff & Paul & Scott, City Lights Books Right Out of California The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism Kathryn Olmsted In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. The Jemima Code Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks Toni Tipton-Martin Women of African descent have contributed to America's food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate "Aunt Jemima" who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine... Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free Héctor Tobar When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales... An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2015 Recipient of the American Book Award Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lepore Wonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike others, she also has a secret history. Disposable Futures The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle Brad Evans, Henry A. Giroux A dazzling exploration of the seduction of violence and spectacle in politics, culture, entertainment and everyday life. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>