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  One Bullet Away

  The Making of a Marine Officer

  by Nathaniel Fick

  If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacle—Recon— two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Marines into the... (more)
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  The Ordinary White Boy

  by Brock Clarke

  Lamar Kerry, Jr., is an unlikely hero. At twenty-seven years old he can't dance unless he's had more than a few drinks. His wardrobe is uninspired, at best. He has returned after college to Little Falls, his miserable, working-class hometown in upstate New York, deflating everyone's expectations of him in so doing. He's over-educated, overconfident, fundamentally bright, but mostly going nowhere. When the town's... (more)
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  Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

  by Robert Dallek

  With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life , Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. More than thirty years after... (more)
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  Appetite for Change

  How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry

  by Warren James Belasco

  In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other "revolutionary" foodstuffs into profitable products; the popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets; and the increasing availability of organic... (more)
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  The Civil Rights Movement (British Association for American Studies (Baas) Paperbacks)

  by Mark Newman

  Mark Newman outlines the range of white responses to the Civil Rights Movement and analyses both northern and southern opinion. He examines the role of the federal government, the church and organized labor, as well as the impact of the Cold War. The book discusses local, regional, and national civil rights campaigns; the utility of nonviolent direct action; and the resurgence of Black Nationalism. And it explains... (more)
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  City of Tiny Lights

  by Patrick Neate

  From award-winning novelist Patrick Neate, a literary mystery that introduces a new kind of British detective, Ugandan-Indian Tommy Akhtar, and a side of London that the mystery world has never seen. A contemporary murder mystery set in the heart of London, this is the story of Tommy Akhtar, hard-drinking veteran of the Mujahideen, devoted on, sometime private investigator and sometime idol to the thug-lites... (more)
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  Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975

  by Susannah Walker

  Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920--1975, Susannah Walker analyzes an often-overlooked facet of... (more)
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  India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

  by Ramachandrea GUHA

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  So Help Me God: Presidential Faith, Pulpit Politics, and the First Great Battle to Save America's Soul

  by F. Forrester Church

  Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a powerful retelling of the birth of the American body politic, religious historian Forrest Church describes our first great culture war—a tumultuous yet nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. On one side of the battle, the... (more)
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  Religion in Latin America

  A Documentary History

  by Lee M. Penyak, Walter J. Petry

  Significant documents on religion in Latin America from the 15th through the 21st centuries.These carefully selected documents on the religions of Latin America begin with the arrival of Columbus and the existence and shape of indigenous religions at the time. This documentary history of nearly six hundred years includes Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Candomblé and Umbanda, Judaism, and the... (more)
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  Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society

  by Ronald Munson

  Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions. ... (more)
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  Children at Play: An American History

  by Howard P. Chudacoff

  "Shrewd, balanced, witty, and important. Chudacoff has written a sweeping history that encompasses boys and girls, black children and white, rich and poor, children on farms and in cities. He shows how children play alone and with each other, and how they use their imaginations to create a world apart from their parents. This is historical synthesis at its finest, and instantly becomes an essential text... (more)
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  Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

  by Elizabeth Jacoway

  In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's integration plan by calling out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school. Newspapers across the nation ran front-page photographs of... (more)
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  House of Stone

  by Christina Lamb

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  Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction (Nation of Newcomers)

  by Rachel Rubin

  "A sprawling and uniquely synthetic account of the role immigrants have played as performers, entrepreneurs, and as the subjects of the mass culture industry. Brings a stunning, transnational array of im/migrant cultural forms, immigration policies, and cohorts together in new and important ways." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time... (more)
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  Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat

  by A. Barrie Pittock

  * Major new book explaining the science, policy, and politics of climate change and what it means for the future of humanity and planet Earth * Presents all of the key data, provides easy-to-follow explanations, and tackles the "climate change skeptics" head-on * Authored by one of the world’s leading climate researchers and backed by the Climate Impact Group of the prestigious... (more)
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  The Coldest Winter

  America and the Korean War

  by David Halberstam

  David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.Halberstam... (more)
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  Causes of Death Atlas Series

  Time of Death, Decomposition and Identification

  An Atlas

  by Jay Dix, Michael H. Graham

  A postmortem X-ray of a male homicide victim reveals a bullet lodged next to his spine. That he was shot is clear. How recently? is what death investigators must determine. The answer: the absence of scar tissue surrounding the bullet proves the victim had been recently shot.And while the average person may find tattoos to be creative and aesthetic, to the trained death investigator, they can actually be the key... (more)
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  The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide

  by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert

  "Read this book. You will cry, you will laugh. And you will know the truth." Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press In this riveting book, first-time author Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother's terrifying experiences as a young woman during the oft-overlooked Armenian genocide in Turkey at the beginning of the twentieth century. At age 15, Ahnert's mother was separated from her foster family during a... (more)
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  Rescued

  Saving Animals from Disaster

  by Allen Anderson

  The inspiration for Rescued was the tragic situation with pets during the Katrina disaster — thousands refusing to leave without their pets, and many animals dying due to official indifference to these “disposable” creatures. Extensively trained in animal rescues, Allen and Linda Anderson interviewed hundreds of volunteers, hurricane survivors, and government officials for this book. Rescued offers both hope... (more)