History

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DISSENT AND THE SUPREME COURT: ITS ROLE IN THE COURT'S HISTORY AND THE NATION'S CONSTITUTIONAL DIALOGUE

Written by Urofsky, Melvin I
"Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." --The Los Angeles Review of Books In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court's long history.
January 10, 2017 | Paperback | Vintage | 544 Pages |
$17.00
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SECRETS OF CHURCHILL'S WAR ROOMS

Written by Asbury, Jonathan
On May 10, 1940, Britain's new prime minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command center.
January 17, 2022 | Hardcover | Imperial War Museums | 288 Pages |
$45.00
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SECONDHAND TIME : THE LAST OF THE SOVIETS

Written by Alexievich, Svetlana
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
March 21, 2017 | Paperback | Random House Trade | 496 Pages |
$20.00
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REST IN POWER: THE ENDURING LIFE OF TRAYVON MARTIN

Written by Martin, Tracy
Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement.Now a docuseries on the Paramount Network produced by Shawn Carter
January 31, 2017 | Hardcover | Spiegel & Grau | 352 Pages |
$26.00
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BLOOD BROTHERS: THE FATAL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MUHAMMAD ALI AND MALCOLM X

Written by Smith, Johnny
The basis of the Netflix documentary BLOOD BROTHERS, the first book to bring to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
November 1, 2016 | Paperback | Basic Books | 400 Pages |
$18.99
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SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

Written by Harari, Yuval Noah
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback
May 15, 2018 | Paperback | Harper Perennial |
$24.99
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FROM SILK TO SILICON: THE STORY OF GLOBALIZATION THROUGH TEN EXTRAORDINARY LIVES

Written by Garten, Jeffrey E
The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.
March 14, 2017 | Paperback | Harper Paperbacks | 480 Pages |
$16.99
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BLACK DETROIT: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SELF-DETERMINATION

Written by Boyd, Herb
NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
June 6, 2017 | Hardcover | Amistad Press | 432 Pages |
$27.99
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HOW TO BE A TUDOR: A DAWN-TO-DUSK GUIDE TO TUDOR LIFE

Written by Goodman, Ruth
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I.
January 17, 2017 | Paperback | Liveright Publishing Corporation | 368 Pages |
$17.95
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AMONG THE THUGS

Written by Buford, Bill
With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence. Author reading tour.
June 1, 1993 | Paperback | Vintage | 320 Pages |
$16.95

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