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Craft : an American history by Glenn AdamsonWhat it is: a groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. What's inside: artisans are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. These artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.
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Why you'll like it: it's rich in science, history, and characters. Go inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, will the goal that people with dementia and caregivers alike can reclaim their autonomy and better quality of life.
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A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
What it is: a sweeping yet concise history prioritizing the experiences of Black women whose "everyday heroism" shaped America.
What's inside: profiles of 11 lesser known Black women whose stories provide illuminating context for the Atlantic slave trade, the Great Migration, Jim Crow laws, protest movements, and more.
Try this next: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall.
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What it's about: behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters and there was little hope until the camp's high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated.
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Read it for: from hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and how a better future is within reach
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| The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit FoxWhat it's about: the decades-long quest to decipher Linear B, a long-lost Mycenean (c.1400 BCE) script that resurfaced in 1900 Crete.
Cracking the code: though British architect Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B in 1952, his efforts were aided by the work of American scholar Alice Kober, who painstakingly constructed syllabic grids at her kitchen table in the 1940s but died before she was able to solve the mystery. |
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| A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age by Emmy J. FavillaWhat it is: this witty and irreverent guide to webspeak was written by Buzzfeed copy chief and style guide creator Emmy J. Favilla.
Whatit's about: it offers a lighthearted ode to rule-breaking in language usage and includes quizzes, style debates, and official Buzzfeed word lists for the United States and United Kingdom.
BTW: "This is the rare style manual that is as entertaining as it is instructive" (Publishers Weekly). |
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What's inside: a pioneering psychology professor explains how we are hardwired to prejudge others by the way they speak and discusses how accents can even determine the economic opportunity and discrimination one might face in life.
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When in French : love in a second language by Lauren CollinsFeaturing: a journalist Lauren Collins moved to Geneva, Switzerland, and decided to learn French in order to be closer to her French husband and his family. It's an exploration across cultures and history into how we learn languages, and what they say about who we are. Why you'll enjoy it: her hilarious and idiosyncratic memoir about the things we do for love and describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.
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Greek to me : adventures of the comma queen by Mary NorrisWhat it is: a charming account of Norris's lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo; memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine--and more than a few Greek men. What's inside: Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways the exotic yet strangely familiar language so deeply influences our own.
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