New Arrivals Added To Our Adult Nonfiction Collection in the last 7 days
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 11, 2024
"A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle aEpoque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacrae-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Towerto the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle aEpoque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siaecle Paris was a city at war with itself. In City of Light, City of Shadows, Mike Ra
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Apr 11, 2024
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"Through listening to kids in Massachusetts and Mississippi talk about growing up in the era of Trump, this book reveals what kids today think and feel about racism in the United States-and what this might mean for the future"--
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 11, 2024
"Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East. In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much larger and sophisticated contingent of some of th
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Apr 11, 2024
"From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good"--
Cooper, a former U.S. Naval intelligence briefing team member, offers this lucid, rational work that reveals secrets kept guarded by the American government since the 1940s, including the presence of UFOs, the facts behind the J.F.K. assassination, and more.
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Apr 11, 2024
Kala Allen Omeiza explores what it means to be Black and autistic in this insightful and vitally important book. With contributions from across the world, this book dives deep into topics from BLM to anti-Black racism and mental health negligence.
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 11, 2024
"George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) is one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history. This authorized reference features rare photos and a color photospread and provides the official P-Funk canon from 1956 to2023: projects, albums, songs, song personnel, and tidbits about each act and select songs"--
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 11, 2024
"If you learn about the scientific method, you learn that first we hypothesize about something we've experienced, and then we look for more of it. This works well enough--but what if you were interested in studying a heretofore unknown comet or supernova?That is the essential problem of the astronomer: the most important discoveries happen without notice! Indeed, as Chris Lintott argues in Accidental Astronomy, luck defines astronomy. Lintott explores the ways in which happenstance shapes how we
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Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 4, 2024
"From stunning shots of the quilts and essays on Angela Walter's creative philosophy, to full techniques and a massive library of free-motion quilting designs, this book includes everything you need to quilt like Angela"-- Provided by publisher"--
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Apr 4, 2024
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Apr 4, 2024