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History and Current Events July 2024
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David. GibbinsA renowned underwater archaeologist presents a narrative of human history through the discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time such as The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great, Henry VIII's Mary Rose and the doomed HMS Terror.
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The Weight of Nature : How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains by Clayton Page AldernBased on six years of research, an award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist, combines emerging neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics of climate change and brain health, shows readers how a changing environment is changing us, today, from the inside out.
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| Hip-Hop Is History by QuestloveGrammy Award-winning Roots drummer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Questlove's lively history explores the first 50 years of hip-hop music by spotlighting one song from each year since the genre's 1973 origins. |
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| The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George StephanopoulosPolitical commentator and former presidential advisor George Stephanopoulos offers a peek behind the curtain at America's most famous residence in this compelling history of the Situation Room, the White House communications hub where consequential decisions are made. |
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Age of Revolutions : Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present by Fareed ZakariaThe CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?
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Better Faster Farther : How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women by Maggie MertensIntroducing us to the women who have redefined society's image of strength and power, an award-winning journalist, recounting the story of how women broke into competitive running, transports us from that first boundary-breaking marathon in Greece, 1896, to today's most intense ultramarathons, whose current record holder is a woman—by a lot.
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Witchcraft : a History in Thirteen Trials by Marion GibsonTaking readers across Europe, Africa and the Americas, this dramatic journey through 13 witch trials, some famous, some lesser-known, empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history. Try this next: The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff.
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