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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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A brilliantly original and gripping new look at the sinking of the Titanic through the prism of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner
Books have been written and films have been made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912, and one thousand men, lighting their last cigarettes, prepared...
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"Kennedy's Great Mistake" provides a gripping, detailed examination of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs Invasion, one of the most contentious episodes of the Kennedy administration. This account seeks to shed light on the decisions that led up to the invasion, the dramatic events that transpired on the beaches of Cuba, and the ramifications of its failure on U.S.-Cuban relations and Kennedy's presidency.Key elements explored within the book include:Origins...
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This beautifully illustrated history of Jules Podell's legendary club Copacabana features colorful characters, romance, and intrigue from the golden age of nightclubs.
In this fascinating look behind the scenes of one of the world's most legendary nightclubs, the story of the Copa begins and ends with its fiery owner, Jules Podell. A Russian immigrant, Jules dropped out of the fourth grade to make money for his family and went on to create the number...
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Over eight short years, Charlie McNamara suffers unimaginable losses, but using her wits and a strong dose of sheer determination, she carves out a life for herself in the desert sands of Egypt, 6,000 miles from friends, family, and everything she knows.The Weight of Your Heart is an introduction to the sweeping five-generation saga of the Carnahan family, and their ties to a paelo-astronomical circle located in Nabta Playa in southwestern Egypt....
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The most successful mainstream novel of H.G. Wells, now finally back in print.Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul Until he reached manhood, it was not clear to Kipps how he came to be under the care of an aunt and uncle, instead of having a father and motherlike other little boys. But the elusive memories of his phantom mother that plagued him began to fade away over time. His life's memories begin to be filled with childhood friendship and love, until...
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"A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era." - Publishers Weekly
Edwardian Britain has often been described as a golden sunlit afternoon---personified by its genial and self-indulgent King. In fact, modern Britain was born during the reign of Edward VII, when politics, science, literature, and the arts were turned upside down.
In Parliament, the peers were...
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Prepare for an epic journey through the dramatic events of World War II Unlike typical history books, this captivating book is filled with exciting stories, intriguing metaphors, and lessons that will inspire and educate young readers... Told through the eyes of parents who personally experienced the war, you'll discover valuable lessons intertwined with stories to help young readers understand the significance of World War II. Explore life on the...
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The second autumn of the Great War, Livinia Pratt, a widowed mother of four, struggles to keep her family together and protected from the horrors of a world gone mad. She fears the future, especially alone. A wounded officer, Major James Gunnison, reluctantly seeks Army ordered rest in the gamekeeper's cottage on his niece's estate. His duty is to his men and must return to them as soon as possible.Livinia cannot understand his solitude and invites...
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A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights.
From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to the Nashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, to...
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Londres, 1940. Mientras las bombas alemanas llueven sobre la ciudad de Londres, Emma Bradley empaca de prisa, toma a su bebé recién nacido en brazos, y toma un tren junto con dos niños evacuados, a los que aceptó cuidar a cambio de un empleo en el sur de Inglaterra. Aunque es uno de los miles que abandonan la ciudad, Emma huye de algo más que de los horrores de la guerra. Su mayor miedo es que el padre del niño los rastree y se vengue por lo...
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Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an international group of scholars who clarify the cultural, intellectual,...
13) One & Only
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A desperate woman meets a man on a mission.Maggie Sturgus thought she knew the man she married. She couldn't be more wrong. Trapped in an abusive marriage inside a prominent family, she sees no means of escape when her husband announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.Four friends enlisted following Pearl Harbor and the secret they brought home will rock their small town and tear families apart. But Josh Parrish made a battlefield promise...
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In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Joseph A. Fry provides the first comparative analysis of these inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.
The Senators' shared aim was to alter the Johnson administration's strategy and bring an end to the war-but from dramatically different...
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From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American...
16) Broken Lines
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With the threat of the Great War looming at America's doorstep, fear of immigrant disloyalty has become enough to divide the nation. So when German-born Amara Müller's brother decides to join the fight, he leaves her behind in St. Louis with one final directive: Stay safe. There's only one certain way to keep herself out of suspicion's spotlight, but will she have the courage to see it through?Accustomed to a strict diet of cigars and spirits, Emil...
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In March of 1944, four magical specialists are brought together at a secret camp for an even more mysterious mission. Hypatia and Cammie adopted each other as sisters twenty years ago, during their school years, after Cammie's mother married Hypatia's older brother. Cammie has been neck deep in signals work since the start of the Second World War, while Hypatia has used her gift for sympathetic magic and materia to support the war effort. All while...
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The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes how in little more than a generation Britain's power and influence in the world would virtually dissolve.
In After the Victorians, Wilson presents...
19) A Love So True
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London – 1940 As German bombs rain down upon the city of London, Emma Bradley hastily packs a suitcase, cradles her newborn son in her arms, and boards a train with two evacuee children she's agreed to chaperone in exchange for a job in the south of England. Although she's only one of thousands leaving the city, Emma is fleeing more than the horrors of war. Her greatest fear is that the father of her child will track her down and exact revenge for...
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In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period.
Plocker offers a new framework for understanding how this antisemitic campaign was motivated by a genuine fear of Jewish influence and international power. She sheds new light...