HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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HISTORY / World
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Incoming Resources
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- Bad days in history, a gleefully grim chronicle of misfortune, mayhem, and misery for every day of the year, Michael Farquhar ; illustrations by Giulia Ghigini
- A history of the world in seven cheap things, a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
- The island of extraordinary captives, a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp, Simon Parkin
- After the fall, being American in the world we've made, Ben Rhodes
- God, a human history, Reza Aslan
- The course of history, ten meals that changed the world, Struan Stevenson ; recipes by Tony Singh, MBE
- The Cold War, a very short introduction, Robert J. McMahon
- The history of philosophy, A.C. Grayling
- The year 1000, when explorers connected the world — and globalization began, Valerie Hansen
- The little book of big history, the story of the universe, human civilization, and everything in between, Ian Crofton and Jeremy Black
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- Political order and political decay, from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy, Francis Fukuyama
- The liberation of Paris, how Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz saved the City of Light, Jean Edward Smith
- Old sparky, the electric chair and the history of the death penalty, Anthony Galvin
- Wonderland, how play made the modern world, Steven Johnson
- Brilliant maps for curious minds, 100 new ways to see the world, Ian Wright ; illustrated by Infographic.ly
- The correspondents, six women writers on the front lines of World War II, Judith Mackrell
- The confidence trap, a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present, David Runciman
- The iron sea, how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships, Simon Read
- The geography of genius, a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, Eric Weiner
- Sleeper agent, the atomic spy in America who got away, by Ann Hagedorn
- The daughters of Yalta, the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war, Catherine Grace Katz
- They fought alone, the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France, Charles Glass
- River cruising in Europe & the USA, Douglas Ward
- Innocent witnesses, childhood memories of World War II, Marilyn Yalom ; with a foreword by Meg Waite Clayton ; edited by Ben Yalom
- Resistance, the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945, Halik Kochanski
- Fallen glory, the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings, James Crawford
- A concise history of the Arabs, John McHugo
- Eight days in May, the final collapse of the Third Reich, Volker Ullrich ; translated by Jefferson Chase
- Archaeology, the essential guide to our human past, general editor Paul Bahn ; foreword by Brian Fagan
- Civil wars, a history in ideas, David Armitage
- Last witnesses, an oral history of the children of World War II, Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Looking for the good war, American amnesia and the violent pursuit of happiness, Elizabeth D. Samet
- Milk of paradise, a history of opium, Lucy Inglis
- Against all odds, a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II, Alex Kershaw
- Hitler's American gamble, Pearl Harbor and Germany's march to global war, Brendan Simms, and Charlie Laderman
- Where the wild coffee grows, the untold story of coffee from the cloud forests of Ethiopia to your cup, Jeff Koehler
- A little history of science, William Bynum
- The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy, how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest, Walter A. McDougall
- On the horizon, Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Kenard Pak
- The tango war, the struggle for the hearts, minds and riches of Latin America during World War II, Mary Jo McConahay
- Kangaroo squadron, American courage in the darkest days of World War II, Bruce Gamble
- Milk!, a 10,000-year food fracas, Mark Kurlansky
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