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History and Current Events January 2019
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Theater of the world : the maps that made history
by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
A highly visual chronicle of mapmaking, from the symbols of the Stone Age to Google Earth, traces the role of visionary geographers in shaping and recording history's major exploration periods. 20,000 first printing.
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| American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGrealWhat it is: a compassionate, deftly researched examination of the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry's culpability in America's staggering opioid crisis.
About the author: Guardian reporter Chris McGreal pulls no punches in his urgent and incisive debut.
Did you know? In 1908, physician Hamilton Wright, the United States' first opium commissioner, described Americans as "the greatest drug fiends in the world." |
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| Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan by Eileen RiversWhat it is: a riveting chronicle of the U.S. military's Female Engagement Teams (FET), deployed in Afghanistan to build relationships with Afghani women whose cultural traditions prohibited them from interacting with male soldiers.
What sets it apart: USA Today editor Eileen Rivers imbues this gripping narrative with welcome perspectives on the otherwise male-dominated field of combat, including insights on her own military service. |
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Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
by Lucinda Hawksley
Written by a descendant of Charles Dickens, a portrait of the sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shares insights into her difficult youth, her passionate civil rights campaigns and the mystery that caused her Royal Archives files to be locked.
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This Victorian Life : Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
by Sarah A. Chrisman
Part memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past.
We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out.
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Mrs. Robinson's disgrace : the private diary of a Victorian lady
by Kate Summerscale
The author of the best-selling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher traces the story of an intimate diary and a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how a lonely Isabella Walker recorded sexual fantasies and was petitioned for divorce against period laws by her unloving husband
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| Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese OneillWhat it is: an irreverent, lough-out-loud "guide" to proper Victorian womanhood.
Chapters include: "Getting Dressed: How to Properly Hide Your Shame;" "Running a Proper Household: The Gentle Art of Dictatorship"
Featuring: 200 images from the era's publications and public service flyers, accompanied by Therese Oneill's tongue-in-cheek captions. |
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Murder in the first-class carriage : the first Victorian railway killing
by Kate Colquhoun
"In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was traveling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He boarded a first-class carriage on the 9:45 pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks discovered blood in the seat cushions as well as on the floor, windows, and sides of the carriage. A bloodstained hat was found on the seat along with a broken link from a watch chain. The race to identify the killer and catch him as he fled on a boat to America was eagerly followed bythe public on both sides of the Atlantic."--Publisher's website
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