Setting the People Free by Dunn, John
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Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger in the political imagination today? Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in ancient Greece to its triumph in the years since 1945. 'Setting the People Free' is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution.
WHERE FATE BECKONS : THE LIFE OF JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA PEROUSE by JOHN DUNMORE
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Devil's Game - How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: American Empire Project Ser.
Backed by extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon and foreign service officials, Dreyfuss argues that the largely hidden financing of radical political Islam by the US is greatly to blame for the global explosion of terrorism. He follows the trail of Ame ...Show more
Quiet Please - Dispatches From a by DOUGLAS Scott
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For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional shush, vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeneys contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque ...Show more
The Origin of the World: Science and Fiction of the Vagina by Jelto Drenth
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"The Origin of the World "is a revealing, intimate, and ultimately liberating study of female sexuality at its heart: the vagina. Working from the assumption that sex is pleasurable and fulfilling insofar as its participants fully understand how it works, sexologist Jelto Drenth gives readers a guided t ...Show more
Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Gollancz S.F.
Fatal Revenant, Book Two of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant and her adopted son, Jeremiah, ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have ...Show more
Terrible Glory: Custer And The Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West by James Donovan
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In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid respo ...Show more