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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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David Tabachnick
The Leisure Ethic

After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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David Skeel
Promise Land

The herculean struggle to restore stability in Puerto Rico and a grave warning for America"I could not put down David Skeel's new book. It is at once an engrossing and personal narrative, an illumina…

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David Griscom
The Myth of Red Texas

A timely call for Texas---and the South---to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today's struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.In blood-red states such as Texas, politics o…

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Brian Bean,
Their End Is Our Beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing&…

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Brian Bean,
Their End Is Our Beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing&…

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Taghreed Alsabeh
Between Ideology and Politics

Presents a comparative, case-study approach, to analyzing the foreign policies of ruling Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
Ways of Eating

"The intricate ways in which human history is formed by food are catacombs full of stories, waiting to be exposed, unraveled, and told. Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White's vignettes and chapters are f…

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Annie Lowrey
The Time Tax

A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time---and make…

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Earl J Hess
Civil War Camps and Soldier Health

An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sa…

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Victoria R Williams
Encyclopedia of Spices and the Spice Trade

Discover the rich history and deep cultural significance of spices, from defining the flavors of regional cuisines to spurring Western exploration and colonialism.This book examines spices from a variety …

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Julian Hattem
Shelter from the Storm

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookAn urgent wake-up call about the coming large-scale human displacement caused by climate change, from one of the world's leading expertsMere decades from now, millions …

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Brendan A Shanahan
Disparate Regimes

State-level politics about immigrants and state laws governing immigrant rights varied greatly from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Disparate Regimes explores how this disparity of pol…

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Peter Agre
Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

How can science prevail when policies fall short?Political, military, and intelligence professionals alone can't resolve all global threats. Sometimes, when other solutions have faltered, scientists step …

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Roony Keefe
Grime

A special collectors edition, GRIME is packed with never-before-seen archival material, candid interviews with artists, and striking photography. Featuring some of the most important names to ever touch t…

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Mark A Johnson
American Bacon

In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first…

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