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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Pr
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology bus as dispatches from the world's collective memory. Topics like politics, economics, celebrities, and the environment intersect and converge to reveal the accelerating...
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of Marx's original philosophy, from its roots in 19th-century European thinkers like Hegel, to its influence on modern-day culture. It looks at Marxism's Russian disciples, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, who forged a ruthless, dogmatic Communism, and the alternative Marxist approaches of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the structuralist Marxism of Althusser in the 1960s. Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate's classic book,...
Author
Publisher
Conecta/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cuáles son las técnicas empleadas por los mejores para persuadir? ¿Qué elementos de la comunicación hacen que se conquiste a una audiencia? ¿Cuáles son los momentos fundamentales en cualquier argumentación? Robert Cialdini nos revela las estrategias de persuasion más efectivas, partiendo de la base de que las personas más persuasivas no lo son solo por lo que dicen , sino sobre todo por lo que hacen en los momentos previos al mensaje...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans, Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter AbbaKovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks...
507) Garbo
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of "England's Mistress" comes a smart, gripping account of the rise to the throne and the early life of Queen Victoria, and the tragic, little-known story of Princess Charlotte, the queen who never was.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of The Vertigo Years argues that in the aftermath of World War I, Western culture redirected energies into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery in ways that triggered world-changing innovations.
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Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers-Erich Auerbach, Fran�cois Faenelon, and W. G. Sebald-and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as "exquisite" (The New York Times) and "spectacular" (the TLS), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI--conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--Provided by publisher.
"An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Unlike World War I, when the horrors of battle were largely confined to the front, World War II reached into the lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Entire countries were occupied, millions were mobilized for the war effort, and in the end, the vast majority of the war's dead were non-combatant men, women, and children. Inhabitants of German-occupied Europe--the war's deadliest killing ground--experienced forced labor, deportation,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the author, Denver Riggleman. “Winners make history.”&#٬٢٠١٤؛Kevin McCarthy Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead. In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first...
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