Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility...
Hitler at Home
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A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in...
I Blame Dennis Hopper
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In 1969, Illeana Douglas' parents saw the film Easy Rider. Like many folks of that generation, the...
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and...
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism
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A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present After...
Radium and the Secret of Life
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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians,...
Corsa Rosa: A History of the Giro D'italia
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The Giro d'Italia is the cooler, tougher brother of the Tour de France. First staged in 1909, and...
Popular Mechanics Man Crafts: Leather Tooling, Fly Tying, Ax Whittling and Other Cool Things to Do
The Editors Of Popular Mechanics
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This is a series of ten pamphlets given to the US army on their return from WW2, reprinted in a...
The Ice House
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From a writer who’s been praised for her “intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer...
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Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
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In Mommy Dead and Dearest, provocative documentarian Erin Lee Carr (Thought Crimes: The Case of the...
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