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    The Commonist Horizon
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    The Commonist Horizon

    How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a...
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    Feminicide and Global Accumulation
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    Feminicide and Global Accumulation

    Feminicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women's organizations fighting against violence-interpersonal, state sanctioned, and economic-that is both endemic to...
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    Pillar of Salt, A Memoir

    As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From...
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    Flashback, Eclipse
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    Flashback, Eclipse

    From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and history in 1960s ItalyFlashback, Eclipse is a groundbreaking study of 1960s Italian art and its troubled but also resourceful relation to the history and...
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    Dissimilar Similitudes
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    Dissimilar Similitudes

    From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerising account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects.Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects, not only...
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    The Lumen Seed
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    The Lumen Seed

    The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against indigenous peoples on the part of the country's white...
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    Tomorrow Is a Long Time

    Photographer Malcolm Linton and writer Jon Cohen present haunting images and stories from Tijuana, Mexico, to show the distance that separates aspiration from reality in the quest to end AIDS. Malcolm Linton is a photo and video journalist based in New...
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    The Invented Part
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    The Invented Part

    "A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."-Jonathan LethemAn aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically...
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    Death in Spring
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    Death in Spring

    Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merc Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the...
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    The Vanished Collection
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    The Vanished Collection

    "Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story."-The Washington PostIt all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather,...
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    Distant Fathers

    This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s, and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and...
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    I Belong to Vienna

    In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, hides in Nazi-controlled Vienna, and never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique...
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    Imhotep the African
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    Imhotep the African

    An Exploration of Imhotep-Architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, High Priest of Ra, and Royal Astronomer-as Well as His Influence as the True Father of African Civilization.In this groundbreaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist...
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    Navajo and the Animal People

    This text examines the traditional Navajo relationship to the natural world. Specifically, how the tribe once related to a category of animals they collectively referred to as the "ones who hunt." These animals, like Native Americans, were once viewed as...
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    The Forest Journey
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    The Forest Journey

    A Foundational Conservation Story RevivedAncient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when...
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    Yosemite In the Sixties

    The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers in the 1960s, who saw the nearly holdless, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The awesome Half Dome and El Capitan were first climbed in the...
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    Celebrate People's History!
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    Celebrate People's History!

    A full-colour graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance-with an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and a foreword by Rebecca Solnit.Spanning nearly three thousand years of history -...
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    America's Nazi Secret

    Fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary investigation exposes the secret section of the State...
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    Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano

    A handwritten serial number inside a neglected Broadwood square piano built in 1807 launches a captivating quest to uncover the remarkable history of these now almost forgotten musical instruments.
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    Revolutionary Spirits

    Revolutionary Spirits confronts many of the later myths about the religious views of America's Founders, and brings to life their complex creeds and personalities. It offers clear and candid portraits of Franklin, Washington, Paine, Adams, Jefferson, and...
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    The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber

    The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's...
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    The Wild Muir

    Here is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir's most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm...
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    Eternal Treblinka
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    Eternal Treblinka

    This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by...
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    No Less Worthy
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    No Less Worthy

    At the outbreak of war in August 1914, thousands of men from across the nation flocked to recruiting centres to sign up to serve in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). This figure includes approximately 1,200 Aboriginal people. The lives of these men as...
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    Lustre
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    Lustre

    The raw, alluring beauty of the pearl and the stories of those who collected it form a fascinating part of Australia's national heritage. The Aboriginal trade and cultural significance of the magnificent Pinctada pearl shell had been well established...
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    In Search of Fish and Fortune
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    In Search of Fish and Fortune

    Australia's extensive coastline has a rich and diverse maritime history. In Search of Fish and Fortune celebrates the history of fishing and pearling as some of the first commercial trades established following European settlement on the western...
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    Sharing Stories in an Ancient Land
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    Sharing Stories in an Ancient Land

    Sharing Stories in an Ancient Land: The Western Australian Museum has been published to coincide with the opening of the glorious WA Museum Boola Bardip. The original site of the Museum, established about 130 years ago, has been transformed by marrying...
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    Seasonal Soups
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    Seasonal Soups

    At last, a soup for every week of the year! Packed full of vegan-friendly recipes, this new edition of Fraser Reid's cult bestseller features everything from winter favourites like Alternative Scotch Broth to such summery delights as Plum Tomato, Orzo...
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    Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches
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    Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches

    Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow.In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked into the...
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    Tor!
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    Tor!

    Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football nations in the world.Tor!(Goal!) traces the extraordinary story of Germany's club and international football, from the days...
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    Aberdeen FC: European Nights
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    Aberdeen FC: European Nights

    Aberdeen have competed on the European stage since season 1967/68 and have enjoyed some epic encounters along the way, culminating in the club's greatest ever victory beating Real Madrid 21 in the 1983 Cup Winner's Cup final. Ally Begg charts a...
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    Behind the Thistle
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    Behind the Thistle

    Featuring the thoughts of more than 180 players who have represented Scotland since the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day,Behind the Thistlegives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of playing for Scotland in...
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    Under the Rainbow
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    Under the Rainbow

    Public symbolism and private reflection: writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs appearing in windows and interviews a wide spectrum of peopleAs Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, images and signs proliferated in its windows,...
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    Formation
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    Formation

    What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash?Nigeria.Formation: From Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of...
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    Jane's Country Year
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    Jane's Country Year

    A new edition in full colour, reproducing the original illustrations from 1946. At last she reached the brow of the hill...now the country opened out below her and she looked down into a wide and lovely valley...Still patched with snow the little fields...
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    Personal Pleasures

    In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal...
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    There's No Story There
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    There's No Story There

    There's No Story There is about the lives of conscripted workers at Statevale, an enormous rural munitions factory somewhere in England during the Second World War.The workers are making shells and bombs, and no chances can be taken with so much...
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  • The Lowland Clearances
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    The Lowland Clearances

    The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people significantly more than were later exiled form the...
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    Lost Glasgow
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    Lost Glasgow

    In this informative and beautifully illustrated book, Carol Foreman traces Glasgow's history through buildings which have been demolished, but which once played a central part in the life of the city. Beginning with the medieval age, she goes on to look...
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    The King in the North
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    The King in the North

    Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the...
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    Voices of the Forest
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    Voices of the Forest

    The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape...
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    A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power
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    A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power

    Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.This book explores the first...
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    The Sea Kings
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    The Sea Kings

    The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful...
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    Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford
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    Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford

    The Scot who won England the World Cup. Macaroon bars and Bovril. When Dixie Deans met Bob Marley. When Davie Robb met Olivia Newton-John. When George McCluskey met the Stones. When Rick Wakeman filed match reports for Meadowbank Thistle. Triumphs and...
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    The French in London

    A History of the French in London from William the Conqueror to Charles de Gaulle.'A beautiful and informative book, wonderfully illustrated' -Toute La CultureEver since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be...
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    In Praise of the Whip
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    In Praise of the Whip

    The emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices, as seen in religious, literary, and medical texts and images.In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of...
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    Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I
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    Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I

    Leo Lyon Zagami uses the internal documents of the Illuminati to reveal confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies-just as those inside the most prestigious U.S...
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