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War and Peace

War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War #3) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

$24.00

ISBN: 9780544876804

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

The final title of Hamilton’s 3-volume biography of FDR as commander-in-chief is a triumph. Compulsively readable yet with a masterful command of his source material, Hamilton gives us a fresh and detailed view of the last two dramatic years of FDR’s life from the wartime summit in Tehran, through the landings at D-Day, his election to a fourth term and the dying president’s final Big Three conference at Yalta.

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Sea People

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)

By Christina Thompson

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062060877

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Published: Harper - March 12th, 2019

Sea People is a fascinating historical and anthropological detective story about the peoples that settled the wide expanse of Pacific islands we today call Polynesia. It’s a book as much about how we’ve learned their story as well as the epic itself of how these lands were populated.

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The Uninhabitable Earth

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)

By David Wallace-Wells

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525576709

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Published: Tim Duggan Books - February 19th, 2019

With regards to the coming catastrophic effects of climate change the first sentence of this powerful polemic says it all: “It is worse, much worse, than you think.”

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Getz/Gilberto

João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto (33 1/3 Brazil) (Paperback)

By Bryan Daniel McCann, Jason Stanyek (Editor)

$22.95

ISBN: 9781501323959

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Published: Bloomsbury Academic - November 29th, 2018

What better way to spend a cold, snowy February day reading McCann’s book while listening to the classic album that help define the bossa nova sound of the early 1960s. Part of the terrific 33 1/3 series that explores in depth seminal recordings of many different genres, this volume places the Getz/Gilberto album in social, historical, and musical context along with expert discussions of each composition cut by cut.

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These Truths

These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore

$39.95

ISBN: 9780393635249

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

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These Truths

These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore

$39.95

ISBN: 9780393635249

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

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The Disordered Mind

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Eric R. Kandel

$30.00

ISBN: 9780374287863

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 28th, 2018

Nobel Prize winning researcher and teacher Eric R. Kandel, with profound empathy, essentially delivers a survey of current knowledge of the workings of the brain using the frame of brain disorders. Our understanding of the biology of the mind is changing rapidly and Kandel charts these advances in clear and very comprehensible language explaining how they are leading to new insights about human nature and consciousness itself.

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How to Be a Good Creature

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)

By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780544938328

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 25th, 2018

Sy Montgomery, in her utterly charming new memoir, attempts to answer the question “What have animals taught me about life”. Her life’s work and passion has brought her into contact with creatures as varied as tarantulas and hyenas, emus and octopus, each in their own way a marvel and each with something to teach about how to make one’s way in this wondrous world

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Eager

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)

By Ben Goldfarb

$24.95

ISBN: 9781603587396

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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - July 5th, 2018

The near eradication of the beaver in Europe and North America has had profound implications for the environment that are finally being recognized. Goldfarb reports on the alliance of scientists, environmentalists, ranchers, and concerned citizens organizing to restoring beaver populations in an effort to solve a host of environmental problems their absence exasperated. Read this book and you will look at our contemporary landscapes in an entirely new way and you may become a Beaver Believer too.

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Playing Changes

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Hardcover)

By Nate Chinen

$27.95

ISBN: 9781101870341

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Published: Pantheon - August 14th, 2018

Chinen’s book is so very welcome as books about contemporary jazz are few and far between, but also because it’s terrific. Chinen puts into context each of the various directions players are taking improvisational music today with a studied thoughtfulness based upon careful listening and deep historical knowledge. The discographies bookmarking each chapter as well as his list of essential 21st century albums are good guideposts for anyone’s future listening.

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