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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"--
"In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who risked their lives for us The sudden withdrawal of British and American troops from Afghanistan in 2021, ended the 20 year war on terror, yet it also left Afghanistan to be reconquered by the Taliban. As violence...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group's new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led to the rise of Hamas and an unbiased look at the...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday. She and her seven siblings were often forced to live as vagabonds, remaining on the move across the country. They frequently subsisted in sheds, tents, and, most notably, motorhomes. They often lived a dysfunctional drifter existence, camping out in their motorhome...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
The riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and artful reenactments to examine how the Tunisian woman's two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa, award-winning director Kaouther...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world" --
Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions, her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father’s alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed...
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