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Andrew Ford
The Shortest History of Music

No other art is as popular-or pervasive-as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles-even the brand-new Beyoncé. But things weren't always …

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Steven Hahn
Illiberal America

A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violenc…

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Don Watson
The Shortest History of the United States

The United States was founded based on the monumental idea that everyone deserves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet throughout our two hundred and fifty years as an independent…

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Henry Abbott
Ballistic

For people who love to move, injuries are the worst. What if we could predict and prevent them? In Ballistic , longtime NBA data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott tells the story of …

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Diane Ackerman
The Zookeeper's Wife

Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Anto…

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Kim Addonizio
Exit Opera

Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and consi…

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Roma Agrawal
Nuts and Bolts

Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale-and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Rom…

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'Pemi Aguda
Ghostroots

In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.…

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Makungu M Akinyela
Testimony Therapy

This innovative book lays out the journey of family therapist Makungu Akinyela in developing testimony therapy-a healing practice rooted in Black cultural traditions of testifying and storytelling. This b…

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Stefan Al
Dwelling on Earth

From tiny pit-houses in the Levant and Mesoamerica thousands of years ago to soaring skyscrapers in Dubai, New York, and Shanghai today, Dwelling on Earth takes readers on a swift and absorbing tour of th…

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Moudhy Al-Rashid
Between Two Rivers

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euph…

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Lokelani Alabanza
Ice Cream Queen

For generations, Black ice cream makers and entrepreneurs have shaped American food culture-yet their stories have been buried deep. With every ice cream flavor Lokelani Alabanza creates, she pays tribute…

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Alice Albinia
The Britannias

From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known by the …

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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David Baker
Transit

We are all human and nonhuman on the move. The poems in Transit emerge from just such a walk through the world. In keenly observed verse, David Baker carries us across physical and emotional geographies, …

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Emily Baker-White
Every Screen on the Planet

TikTok boasts 1.6 billion active users worldwide and wields unprecedented power over culture, politics, and commerce, making its addictive algorithm the greatest prize in America's technological cold war …

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and al…

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