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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Hardcover)

By Robin Coste Lewis
$35.00
ISBN: 9781524732585
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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

In this breathtaking combination of photography and poetry Robin Coste Lewis again asks, what can we do with our history? Our past is the material for our future but only if we engage with it critically & creatively. Coste Lewis is doing powerful things with history, art, and poetry.

Josh

The Old Ways

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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Landscapes #3) By Robert Macfarlane Cover Image

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Landscapes #3) (Paperback)

By Robert Macfarlane
$19.00
ISBN: 9780147509796
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Published: Penguin Books - September 24th, 2013

This book pulled me out of a years-long "reading actual books for fun" slump in the middle of college + got me to start reading nonfiction at all. Super beautiful writing about what it means to walk routes that have been walked by people for millennia. Also an extremely extensive bibliography for further reading!

Piera

Born in Blackness

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War By Howard W. French Cover Image

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (Paperback)

By Howard W. French
$19.95
ISBN: 9781324092407
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Published: Liveright - October 25th, 2022

French restores the centrality of Africa to what is often seen as the modern economic and political ascendancy of Europe. Incredibly rich in detail provided by recent scholarship and informed by French’s own contemporary reporting from the region, Born in Blackness helps to forever change how we view the last 700 years of the Trans-Atlantic world.

Dale

Fears of a Setting Sun

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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders By Dennis C. Rasmussen Cover Image

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders (Paperback)

By Dennis C. Rasmussen
$18.95
ISBN: 9780691241418
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Published: Princeton University Press - November 8th, 2022

It will come as a surprise to many, as it did to me, almost all the Founding Fathers, save Madison, were so disillusioned by what had become of the experiment of the republic they helped create they did not expect it to survive much longer past their lifetimes. Rasmussen explains why.

Dale

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer By Dean Jobb Cover Image

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer (Paperback)

By Dean Jobb
$17.99
ISBN: 9781643752501
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Published: Algonquin Books - July 5th, 2022

Only a few years after Jack the Ripper terrorized London, another murderer roamed the streets, leaving poisoned victims in his wake, as he already had across North America.

John

Bad Mexicans

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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands By Kelly Lytle Hernández Cover Image

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)

By Kelly Lytle Hernández
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324004370
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 10th, 2022

Mexico's 1910 revolution involved -- among other conspirators -- a group of dissident journalists who launched attacks from the US while also fighting US imperialism in Mexico.

Sarah

The Dark Queens

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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World By Shelley Puhak Cover Image

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)

By Shelley Puhak
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ISBN: 9781635574913
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - February 22nd, 2022

Two queens in medieval France fight, strategize, and outmaneuver each other in an attempt to claim everything for themselves and their children. Brunhild and Fredegund battled 1500 years ago, but they'd be quite at home on House of Cards or Succession today.

Sarah

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