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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 1976Plagues and Peoples
by William H. McNeill
William McNeill was one of the 20th century’s leading big-picture world historians. Interconnectedness is a major running theme of his work. This title applies McNeill’s interconnectedness emphasis to disease as an engine of world history. This is of obvious interest in the wake of COVID-19. What can we learn from how other societies have dealt with plagues? What were mistakes we can avoid? What things worked that we can adapt to our own time? Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the plague of ancient Athens, to the 14th-century black death/bubonic plague in Eurasia, to the conquest of Mexico by smallpox epidemics as much as the Spanish, to the 1918 global flu pandemic, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated edition. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.
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Biography & True StoriesSeptember 2020Written in Bone
Hidden stories in what we leave behind
by Sue Black
One of the world’s leading forensic scientists reveals the secrets hidden deep within our bones. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it. Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt. Limb by limb, case by case - some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre - Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.
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Biography & True StoriesOut of the Shadows--a memoir
by Timea E. Nagy and Shannon Moroney
A searing memoir by a victim of sex-trafficking. Timea Nagy writes: "I was 20 when I answered an ad in Budapest to be a babysitter in Canada, but the job was a lie. They took my passport, my money and my freedom. They almost took my life." Timea had been lured by a ring of international human traffickers. On arrival in Toronto, she was forced into sex labour in the city's seediest nightclubs and kept by her "agents" for months until she made her dangerous escape. Once a voiceless victim, Timea overcame the odds to become one of the most recognized advocates against human trafficking.
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July 2021 - December 2021Victory Parade
by Leela Corman
Victory Parade is the story of several women navigating the treacherous personal landscape of wartime in Brooklyn during the Second World War. It's also a tale of refugee trauma, female power and agency, and the US Army's liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Handpainted in Corman's distinctive watercolors, it takes you deep into the subconscious experiences around war, death, and mass trauma. A short excerpt is available from Tablet. Another excerpt ran in issue #118 of The Believer.
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July 2010Fire and Fury
The Allied Bombing of Germany
by Randall Hansen
Using a narrative approach, Fire & Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign over Germany during World War II. It is the only book on the market that provides a narrative history of both the British and American campaigns. Using a fast-paced narrative, the book looks at the campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain and Germany (Henry Arnold, Carl Spaatz, Ira Eaker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Portal, Winston Churchill, Arthur Harris, Albert Speer, and others), aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. It shows how the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory. The book offers a critical yet balanced view of Bomber Command and Arthur Harris, highlighting their accomplishments and refusing the shy away from Harris’ faults. It thus avoids both the extremes of denunciation and apology that characterize most books about Harris. Rights sold Canada: Doubleday US: Penguin French Canadian: Presses de l’Universite Laval UK: Faber
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October 2020The Art of Pulp Horror
An Illustrated History
by Edited by Stephen Jones; foreword by Robert Silverberg
The companion title to the award-winning The Art of Horror and The Art of Horror Movies, and from the same creative team behind those acclaimed illustrated volumes, this third title in the series looks at the sexy, sleazy, and sensational subject matter in books, magazines, comics, and movies, which helped to shape modern horror. Compiled by multiple award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, and with a foreword by prolific and acclaimed author Robert Silverberg, this visual history brings together insightful and revelatory comment from some of the genre's most highly esteemed experts.
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True crimeDestination Peking
18 true stories of those who went...
by Paul French
New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor “American girl” Mona Monteith who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, who sought inspiration walking atop the Tartar Wall; from Edgar and Helen Foster Snow – Peking’s ‘It’ couple of 1935 – to Martha Sawyers, who did so much to aid China against Japan in World War II; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2022Economics
Model Essays
by Wong Wai Leong, Ngew Shook Ying, Nedumaran Munusamy
Economics: Model Essays is the 2nd edition best-selling revision guide that helps students gain a strong grade in the essay component of the 2023–2025 Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics (9708) examination paper. This book contains over 50 new model essays covering each syllabus unit to aid understanding on how to effectively approach essay questions. Each model essay is accompanied by an essay outline that presents a clear essay structure comprising an Introduction, Body and Conclusion. In addition to various tips, conceptual diagrams on basic economics concepts are also included in the book to give an overall insight into each subject topic. This book is suitable for students taking Paper 2 and Paper 4 of the Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics (9708). Click here for more information.
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History of architectureOctober 2013Paul T. Frankl
Autobiography
by Christopher Long and Aurora McClain (eds)
A page-turner that captures this leading Modernist in his own words. – Bennett Johnson, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and work for Hollywood celebrities. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, is annotated by design scholar Christopher Long and accompanied by previously unpublished photographs and drawings. Hand-sewn with a linen cover, this book won the “Most Beautiful Book” design award in Austria.
