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Bonnie A Lucero
The Land of the Skinny Cow

Beef looms large in Cuban history. Today, it is one of the most coveted food items, and so scarce that most ordinary Cubans cannot hope to consume it without a doctor's prescription. In this book, Bonnie …

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne
The Islands and the Stars

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Matthew Cole
Code Over Country

A searing exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military's most legendary and best-known brand "A meticulously crafted corrective aimed at dismantling the dishonest mythology that dominates the public unders…

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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Crafting Everyday Food

Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing industriali…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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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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Angela M Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, popu…

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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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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

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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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A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and a…

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Angela M Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Jacob Soboroff
Firestorm

New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles TimesBestsellerA "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle ) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW rep…

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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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