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Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Mistaking Paris for a haven of freedom, slaves sought refuge there only to be hunted down, arrested, and deported. Through the biographies of enslaved... Læs mere
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the 1930s, amid rising fascism, FDR and the New Dealers invented the doctrine of national security, which obligated the state to... Læs mere
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The Writer's Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Writer’s Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors—celebrities and unknowns—at a time when their... Læs mere
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One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
College students are more diverse and less financially privileged than ever, but achievement gaps persist. Offering... Læs mere
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The Mending of Broken Bones: A Modern Guide to Classical Algebra (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Mending of Broken Bones reveals that far from a set of mundane exercises, algebra is the delicate craft of untangling numerical... Læs mere
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A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Why did the Allied leaders—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the... Læs mere
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The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Proteins link all life on Earth and enable its most astonishing capacities—from a firefly’s glow to the navigational... Læs mere
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The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Painter’s Fire follows a remarkable cohort of transatlantic artists who risked their lives and... Læs mere
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The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the... Læs mere
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Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the... Læs mere
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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Ellmann’s Joyce... Læs mere
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The Learning Household: How to Help Your Child Get More out of School (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids’ natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and... Læs mere
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