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"[This book] is a cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"--
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Every few years a talent comes along that disrupts everything we think we know about how the NBA should work. Whether it's scoring, playmaking, or shooting, these are players and tactics that fundamentally challenge how the game is played and what greatness looks like on a basketball court. For a period of time, these players each become an "Atlas" for the league, carrying the weight of the NBA on their shoulders, but also providing the roadmap that...
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Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Elementary-level text and engaging sports photos highlight the Chicago White Sox's MLB World Series wins and losses, plus sensational players associated with the professional baseball team such as Paul Konerko"--
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024
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English
Description
On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Christians vulnerable and fearing renewed violence. Drawn from never-before-seen eyewitness accounts of the Damascus Events, eminent Middle East historian Eugene...
8) Chicago Cubs
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Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Elementary-level text and engaging sports photos highlight the Chicago Cubs' MLB World Series wins and losses, plus sensational players associated with the professional baseball team such as Kris Bryant"--
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain. Yet we know little about...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Bringing to life the 150-year story of Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, and the origins of Juneteenth, this moving picture book, with lyrical text and vibrant artwork, is an ode to the struggle, triumph, courage and joy of Black America
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner tells the true story of of Bobby Gunn, the 73-0 undisputed champion of bare-knuckle boxing. Bonner travels the underground for years with Gunn, shining a light on a secret circuit that's never before been revealed
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
"An invisible enemy is threatening the Emperor's life inside the Imperial Palace walls and Mulan is the only one he trusts to help him. But among all the unspoken rules of the court, Mulan feels discouraged and hopeless. Can she rise to the Emperor's expectations, defeat the dark threat, and save China once again?"--Back cover
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, America declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
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English
Description
"I Will Show You How It Was is Illia Ponomarenko's heart-wrenching memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost. But it's also a story of pride and even elation as Ukrainian forces come together, find their mojo, and oust the invaders from Kyiv. The most powerful and personal chronicle of the war to date, I Will Show You How It Was is an exceptional literary achievement,...
15) Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing movement dedicated to dismantling democracy itself. Inspired by Donald Trump's election lies, a growing movement of grassroots activists mobilized around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Trump had...
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English
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The voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its aftermath – are collected for the first time by Allen C. Guelzo, America's foremost Civil War scholar, in this moving and sobering oral history.
This treasure trove of original documents – many never-before published – creates a uniquely personal, day-by-day...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the three dynasties--one Republican, two Democratic--that have enabled corporate interests to infiltrate American politics and undermine our democracy"--
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Painting a vivid portrait of art throughout history, showing how it has changed the world, one artistic movement at a time, this book illustrates how artists bring their ideas to life, explores various techniques and shows how art can affect the way we think and feel
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812--a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and...
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