Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what …
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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s valentine to his adopted country of England
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Aust…
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throug…
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