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Nick Thorpe The Road Before Me WeepsA powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe. War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have ...
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Marci Shore The Ukrainian NightA vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential. What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden…
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Christopher Tyerman The World of the CrusadesA lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders. Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, ...
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A.C. Grayling WarA renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more...
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David Thomson Warner BrosBehind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising ...
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Daniel E. Sutherland WhistlerA major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America’s artists. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler ...
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Terry Eagleton Why Marx Was RightIn this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism-that it leads to political tyranny, ...
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Cass R. Sunstein Why Nudge?The bestselling author of Simpler offers a powerful, provocative, and convincing argument for protecting people from their own mistakes Based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, ...