Unlikely Warrior: A Pacifist Rabbis Journey from the Pulpit to Iwo Jima
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A brilliant student, orator, and debater, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was an outspoken social activist...
Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions
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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau,...
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu
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After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into...
The Golden Age
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The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery,...
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Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy....
Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis
Alan Crawford and Tony Czuczka
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Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014...
Diana Vreeland: the Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962
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The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor...
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
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In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, "Health is a state of complete...
The Hair of Harold Roux
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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas...