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  • Sacred Paris

    A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light

    by Susan Cahill, Marion Ranoux ...
    Embark on a spiritual journey through the captivating sacred sites of Paris, from the iconic Notre-Dame to hidden gems, in this beautifully illustrated guide by the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris and The Streets of Paris.The spirit of Paris can be felt everywhere in the City of Light, holding a sacred history that transcends words and religion. Its legendary places of worship are truly the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Streets of Paris

    A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

    by Susan Cahill, Marion Ranoux ...
    From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years.For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

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    An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique ... Read more

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  • The Library

    A Catalogue of Wonders

    by Stuart Kells ...
    A sharp and delightful celebration of libraries around the world, and throughout time—for the passionate bibliophile and literary historian.“Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions.” —The Washington PostLibraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are ... Read more

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  • Wayfinding

    The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World

    by M. R. O'Connor ...
    In this "marvel of storytelling," a journalist pursues the mysteries of human navigation across continents and deep within the brain ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. In ... Read more

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  • The Nine of Us

    Growing Up Kennedy

    by Jean Kennedy Smith ...
    In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.Prompted by interesting tidbits in the newspaper, Rose and Joe Kennedy would pose questions to their nine children ... Read more

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  • Les Parisiennes

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

    by Anne Sebba ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author explores WWII Paris history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn't—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or ... Read more

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  • Unsettled Ground

    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

    by Cassandra Tate ...
    **"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—**Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.Far from a ... Read more

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  • Social Warming

    How Social Media Polarises Us All

    by Charles Arthur ...
    ‘Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm’ Dorian Lynskey‘Cooly prosecutorial’ GuardianNobody meant for this to happen.Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide.Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women.YouTube never planned to radicalise young men.But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more ‘engagement’. In so doing, t... ... Read more

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  • Surviving Katyn

    Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

    by Jane Rogoyska ...
    The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnessesWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZECommitted in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story ... Read more

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  • The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

    by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Henry Herz, Henry Herz, various authors, Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Alethea Kontis, Jane Yolen0, Seanan McGuire1, Lissa Price2, Christine Taylor-Butler3, Mylo Carbia4, Jo Whittemore5, Susanne L. Lambdin6, Sarah Beth Durst7, Steve Pantazis8, Stacia Deutsch9, Dee Leone0, Emily McCosh1, G. P. Charles2 ...
    Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, ... Read more

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  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

    by Michele Morrical ...
    This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is "a masterpiece of academic scholarship" ( Midwest Book Review).In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some ... Read more

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