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Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning non-fiction children's book celebrating everything Palestinian! From culture and food, to music and literature, We Are Palestinian is a celebration of Palestinian heritage. Brought to life by award-winning writer Reem Kassis, every spread is filled with wonderful anecdotes, fascinating facts, and memorable quotes. It is beautifully illustrated by Noha Eilouti, an emerging Palestinian-Canadian illustrator"--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle...
Series
Publisher
Button Books, an imprint of Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Take a journey back in time to the strange and spectacular land of the pharaohs. You'll meet the Egyptian gods, explore the river Nile, decipher hieroglyphics and discover the truth about the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb. Why did they build the pyramids? How were mummies made? And what is the mysterious Sphinx? Find the answers to these and many more questions inside!"--
Publisher
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Midwest has been characterized as an excellent seedbed for the germination of great thinkers, but a wasteland for their further growth. This collection reveals that representation to be false. More than just a springboard for the careers of future expatriates, the region has cultivated extraordinary intellectuals and allowed for the cross-pollination of a diversity of ideas. It has also been the site of shifting interpretations-to some a frontier,...
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Cold War still casts a long shadow over contemporary American society. It was a transformative era that continues to condition Americans' national anxieties, popular culture, consumer habits, and identity. The essays in "Red Reckoning" take an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to examine how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century impacted American society. While historians and political scientists have explored Cold War...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A writer and mom with decades of experience working in Silicon Valley, Jessica Carew Kraft grew fed up with her life filled with digital screens and deep anxieties about the future of humanity and nature. She quit her job and set out to learn about "rewilding" from people who reject the comforts and convenience of civilization to live in nature using Stone Age tools and skills. A suburbanite with a husband, kids, and a mortgage, she learned to turn...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profound ways by harnessing the availability of five key elements. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are the most common elements in all forms of life on Earth, and all five circulate between the biotic and abiotic world in biogeochemical cycles. When organisms tap into stores of these elements and change...
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
En este primer volumen de la "Tragicomedia mexicana", que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos, los modos del "tapadismo" y del fraude electoral, las leyes no escritas del sistema, los laberintos obreros y agrarios, el fortalecimiento de los empresarios, la industrialización, el desarrollo estabilizador, la penetración paulatina e invencible de Estados Unidos en casi todos los ámbitos del país, la eterna carestía,...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the first cities of Sumer to the empire of the Incas, travel around the world and through 5,000 years of history in this illustrated guide to see where and how ancient peoples lived. From North America to New Zealand, this book takes you on a trip around the world and through history to visit ancient cities and empires, showing who lived where and explaining the unique features of each civilization. The Ancient Worlds Atlas is a pictorial...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and enslaved peoples. Many view the region-comprising present-day Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, and Romania, among other countries--as united only by the shared experience of invasions launched by foreign powers, from the Huns of the fourth century, to the Swedes of the seventeenth,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.
17) Desert jungle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a desert valley, surrounded by mountains of rock and cactus, is the tiny village the boy calls home. He never wanders far, frightened of coyotes and the dusty wilds beyond. On a visit to Grandpa's ranch, he resists the invitation to explore an area where his grandfather grew up, far from any village. The boy would rather play it safe on his tablet. But one of the creatures he fears has other plans for him, and soon the vast desert "jungle" begins...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Las historias eternas de tres latinoamericanos contemporáneos cuyas vidas representan tres fuerzas impulsoras que han dado forma al carácter de la región: la explotación, la violencia y la religión.
The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and religion.
Author
Publisher
Hearst Home Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pick a date--any date!--flip to that page, and take an instant trip through history--no time machine required! This treasure trove of historical facts from The HISTORY channel takes you on a journey through the most incredible events that have shaped our world. (Psst. Check out what happened on your birthday!)."--
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