Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
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What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region...
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
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Winner, 2015 National Jewish Book Award presented by the Jewish Book Council For much of the...
Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
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In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a...
Cy Twombly
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The American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the seminal artists of the second half of the...
Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson and Dan Morgenstern
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Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the...
Congress, Presidents, and American Politics: Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
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When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began...
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
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Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically...
Early Race Filmmaking in America
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The early years of the twentieth century were a formative time in the long history of struggle for...
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like...
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
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Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those...